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Registered charity · Sheffield

The Church Army

The Church Army is a registered charity (number 226226) based in Sheffield, governed by 13 trustees and chaired by Rt Revd Dr Gulnar Eleanor Francis-Dehqani since 2020. Latest income £7.1m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.

Also known as Church Army, Portman House Trust, The Marylebone Project (Charity Commission)

  • 13 trustees
  • Income £7.1m (2025)
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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Accommodation/housing, Religious Activities
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Ireland, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.churcharmy.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Church Army
Registered
1963

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£7.1m£11m
  • 2024£7.3m£11m
  • 2023£6.1m£10m
Earlier years
  • 2022£6.4m£8.7m
  • 2021£6.3m£7.6m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 8%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO BRING PEOPLE TO A PERSONAL FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST BY (A) PROVIDING TRAINED EVANGELISTS AND LAY AGENTS TO ASSIST THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION, (B) PREACHING THE NEED OF CONVERSION, HOLINESS OF LIFE AND CHURCH MEMBERSHIP, (C) RELIEVING POVERTY AND DISTRESS

Grants received

17 grants · £1,201,360 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

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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.

3.4y median 3y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.8y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (3)

9
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 13The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 13Accommodation/housing 11Religious Activities 2

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Hospitality 11Other services 3Education 2

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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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£7.1m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

4.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 12.2 in 2021

181 from 178 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
226226
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS DATED 5TH JULY 1955, 21ST MAY 1990, 22ND NOVEMBER 2002, 17TH NOVEMBER 2005 AND 27TH NOVEMBER 2008 as amended on 22 Nov 2018 as amended on 11 Jul 2026
Companies House
Company number 00037169 · Active
Contact on the register
03001232113 · info@churcharmy.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
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