St Luke's Church Thurnby

Registered charity 1133016 · since 2009thurnbychurch.com·International, United Kingdom·Updated 29 October 2026

Key takeaways

St Luke's Church Thurnby mainly supports its own named mission partners, locally, nationally and internationally, with prayer and money, and its Discretionary Fund gives one-off gifts to people in financial hardship rather than to organisations.
Its stated geographic focus is nationally and internationally, and its annual report gives no grants figure or grant range, so the likely size of any award is unclear.
No application process is published, so for a Discretionary Fund gift, anyone wanting to know more should get in touch with the contact the church names for that fund.
The sources give nothing on timing or how competitive giving is, so a short first enquiry is the sensible step before writing a full request.

Overview

St Luke's Church Thurnby is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (charity number 1133016).

St Luke's Church Thurnby is a church charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales, set up to promote the whole mission of the Church in its ecclesiastical parish. It supports a number of mission partners with both prayer and finance, including The Bridge, Leicester, and Leicestershire South Food Bank locally, Church Pastoral Aid Society and Scripture Union nationally, and Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) and the Hope & Glory Foundation in Pune, India internationally. It also runs a restricted Discretionary Fund, overseen by clergy, a warden and a PCC member, which makes one-off gifts to people in financial hardship. The sources do not show how its giving divides between these programmes.

What they fund

Priority Areas

St Luke’s supports a number of mission partners locally, nationally and internationally, both financially and through prayer. Its annual report names partners at those three levels, showing that its organisational support is not confined to one locality. The church also has a Discretionary Fund that gives one-off gifts to people in financial hardship; the gifts are overseen by clergy, a warden and a PCC member. The website describes recipients as people in the church family and beyond who are in a time of financial crisis. Its stated foundations are belonging, growing, multiplying and serving: living as Jesus’ family, becoming more like Jesus, proclaiming Jesus and planting churches, and living out the love of Jesus.

Themes

Financial hardship

Geographic Focus

Priority: Nationally; Internationally.

How to apply

For a one-off gift from the Discretionary Fund, people who would like to know more can get in touch with Tom Devas.

Where they fund

Where it says it funds

United Kingdom
International

Similar funders

Funders supporting work similar to St Luke's Church Thurnby.

St. Luke’s MaidstoneNo public processGave £19,956 St Luke's Church BatterseaNo public processGave £20,629 St Leonard's EynshamNo public processGave £18,400 St Luke'sNo public processGave £25,000 All Saints LindfieldNo public processGave £137k St Paul's Church BanburyNo public process Christ Church BedfordNo public processGave £26,946 Wonersh and Blackheath Parish ChurchesNo public process Trinity ChurchesRollingGave £31,470 LifePoint ChurchNo public process

Five years of accounts

Financial year	Income	Expenditure	Grants paid	Accounts document
year to 31 December 2020	£265,127	£194,322	—	Accounts for year to 31 December 2020
year to 31 December 2021	£238,429	£230,479	—	Accounts for year to 31 December 2021
year to 31 December 2022	£258,618	£338,562	—	Accounts for year to 31 December 2022
year to 31 December 2023	£190,000	£236,000	—	Accounts for year to 31 December 2023
year to 31 December 2024	£241,104	£285,793	—	Accounts for year to 31 December 2024

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.