The Regulator for Charities in England and Wales

The Excepted Church Charity Programme

Name

Estimate of No's of Registrations

Registrable entity

Governing Document(s)

To be sent to us?

email/

lead contact

Timetable

Church of England

2200

Parochial Church Council (PCC)

PCC Powers Measure 1956 as amended & Church Representation rules

N

Diocesan offices

 

Applications will be handled in 3 tranches

October/November 2008

January – mid February 2009

May – June 2009

Methodists

700

Assets of  Local Churches, circuits and districts

Methodist Church Acts and Deed of Union

N

Alan Pimlott

 

Applications will be handled over a seven month period by  standing committee member. 

 

The programme starts in October 2008 and runs through to April 2009.

URC

 80 - 100

Working funds of churches and Synods

Trusts distilled from the URC Acts and the Scheme of Union

N

Revd Roberta Rominger

Applications will be scheduled over 4 periods vis church charities in 

Synods 1 to 3 Jan & Feb 2009

Synods 4-6 March and April 2009

Synods 7 to 9 May and June 2009

Synods 10 -12 July 2009 onwards

Baptist Union

500

Working funds of local church

Approved constitution

Y

Linda Holder

 

Applications will be phased on a monthly basis from 1 October 2008.

Grace Baptists

6

Working funds of local churches

Approved constitution

Y

Eric Cousins

 

Applications will be  handled from 2 January 2009

Congregational Federation

6

Single charity comprising chapel building and working funds

Revised Model Trusts under the 1951 Baptist and Congregational Church Trusts Act

Y

Mark Tucker

 

Applications will be delayed until the new model trusts take effect

Religious Society of Friends

70

Area Meetings and British Yearly Meeting

Approved governing document for Area Meetings

Y

Helen Griffith

 

Applications will be handled from 2 January 2009

Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches

70

Working funds of local churches

Approved constitution for churches

Y

Brian Matthews

 

Churches with name beginning
A to K Jan- March 2009
L to K April 2009 onwards

Church in Wales

65

PCC’s

Constitution

N

Lyn Chandler

Applications will be handled in two tranches from April 2009

 

Presbyterian Church in Wales

6-10

1. the central Connexion of the Presbyterian Church of Wales; and 2. Assets of local churches

Presbyterian Church in Wales Act 1933 and Constitution under the Act

N

Ifan Roberts

 

Applications will be delayed until the revised constitution has been approved by the General Assembly

Gospel Standard Baptists

No churches meet the income requirement

 

 

 

 

 

Evangelical Fellowship of Congregational Churches (EFCC)

1-3

 

 

 

Anthony Harrison

 

April 2009

Union of Welsh Independents and Unitarian Church

No churches meet the income requirement