ST James' Church Clitheroe

Registered charity 1131419 · since 2009stjamesclitheroe.co.uk·International·Updated 31 October 2026

At a glance

Open to applications

Rolling, no deadlines · unsolicited applications welcome

Key takeaways

St James' Church Clitheroe's work fits best where a request links to its stated themes: education and training, poverty relief, overseas aid and famine relief, religious activities, new ministry and the emerging church, with a stated priority for projects across the world.
Neither its annual giving nor its grant range is stated, so a realistic request size cannot be judged from the available information, and a grant writer should ask the charity before setting an amount.
The how-to-apply guidance invites people involved with an overseas project that supports a Mission Giving criterion to get in touch, so making contact first is the sensible route.
Applications are accepted on a rolling basis, so there is no deadline to plan around, but how competitive the funding is cannot be told from the information given.
No exclusions or eligibility limits are stated.

Overview

ST James' Church Clitheroe is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (charity number 1131419).

St James' Church Clitheroe is a charity whose main aim is to promote the whole mission of the Church in its ecclesiastical parish, with the aim of knowing Jesus and making Jesus known. It makes grants to organisations and also provides buildings, facilities, open spaces and services to communities at home and abroad. Through its Mission Giving it supports partners working all across the world, and sometimes locally too, to share the Good News of Jesus Christ. It also runs an emerging church seed fund for new projects that arise from St James'.

What they fund

Priority Areas

The charity's main aim is to promote the whole mission of the Church in its ecclesiastical parish. It makes grants to organisations and also provides buildings, facilities, open spaces and services to communities at home and abroad. Its stated emphases are education and training, the prevention or relief of poverty, overseas aid and famine relief, and religious activities. Through Mission Giving it supports partners working across the world and sometimes locally to share the Good News of Jesus Christ. It also identifies support for new ministry and the emerging church as a Mission Giving criterion, with a seed fund for new projects arising from St James’.

Themes

Education and training
Poverty relief
Overseas aid and famine relief
Religious activities
New ministry
Emerging church

Geographic Focus

Priority: All across the world.

How to apply

People involved with an overseas project that supports one of the Mission Giving criteria are invited to get in touch with the charity.

Where they fund

Where it says it funds

International

Similar funders

Funders supporting work similar to ST James' Church Clitheroe.

Gunnersbury Baptist ChurchNo public processGave £25,173 Saint JamesNo public processGave £72,650 Grosvenor Church BarnstapleNo public processGave £125 One ChurchNo public processGave £17,835 East Cardiff Ministry AreaNo public process St James ChurchNo public process Trinity ChurchesRollingGave £31,470 St George's Church, PoyntonNo public process Brockenhurst Parish ChurchNo public processGave £13,588 Christ Church BedfordNo public processGave £26,946

Five years of accounts

Financial year	Income	Expenditure	Grants paid	Accounts document
year to 31 December 2021	£554,934	£302,999	—	Accounts for year to 31 December 2021
year to 31 December 2022	£306,244	£364,552	—	Accounts for year to 31 December 2022
year to 31 December 2023	£324,181	£331,380	—	Accounts for year to 31 December 2023
year to 31 December 2024	£316,689	£329,507	—	Accounts for year to 31 December 2024
year to 31 December 2025	£461,150	£394,690	—	Accounts for year to 31 December 2025

— No grants figure for that year.

Figures from the charity’s filed accounts and its register entry. The document icon links to the charity’s entry on the Charity Commission register, where its filed accounts can be found.