Registered charity (CIO) · London
ST Clement Danes Church Fund
- 6 trustees
- Income £490k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- Religious Activities, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency
- Where
- City Of London
- Website
- www.stclementdanesraf.org (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2016
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£490k£1.2m
- 2024£2.3m£411k
- 2023£301k£404k
Earlier years
- 2022£264k£395k
- 2021£262k£380k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2024: Government grants 86%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
THE PROMOTION OF THE EFFICIENCY OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE PRINCIPALLY BY, BUT NOT LIMITED TO: (A) THE MAINTENANCE, REPAIR AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE CHURCH OF ST CLEMENT DANES (THE "CHURCH") INCLUDING FURNISHING AND EQUIPPING THE CHURCH TO ENABLE IT TO UNDERTAKE THE ROLE AS THE CENTRAL CHURCH OF THE RAF; AND (B) SUPPORTING THE DAY TO DAY RUNNING OF THE CHURCH INCLUDING THE HOLDING OF SERVICES AND ALL ITS RELIGIOUS AND CHARITABLE WORK,FOR THE BENEFIT OF PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE AND OTHER AIR FORCES DEEMED BY THE AIR FORCE BOARD TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH THE ROYAL AIR FORCE.
Grants received
2 grants · £20,000 total360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.
Top funders
- Garfield Weston Foundation · £10,000
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £10,000
Most recent
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
Board analysis
Board DNA
How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.
6 trustees on the board
- Air Marshal Alan Gillespie MA BSC RAF Chair since 2018
- Carolyn Opie MBE since 2016
- Delva Patman since 2010
- Group Captain John Hetherington since 2022
- Group Captain Lee Wales since 2025
- The Venerable Giles Legood MBE KHC since 2022
Trustees past 6 years
- Air Marshal Alan Gillespie MA BSC RAF Chair since 2018
- Carolyn Opie MBE since 2016
- Delva Patman since 2010
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (2)
- Air Marshal Alan Gillespie MA BSC RAF Chair since 2018
- Group Captain John Hetherington since 2022
Portfolio (4)
- Carolyn Opie MBE since 2016
- Delva Patman since 2010
- Group Captain Lee Wales since 2025
- The Venerable Giles Legood MBE KHC since 2022
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Gaps to watch
- No commercial or business experience on the board
- Several long-serving trustees could step down together
Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.
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Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1168717
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CIO - Foundation Registered 10 Aug 2016
- Contact on the register
- 0207 242 8282 · info@stclementdanesraf.org
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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