Tonbridge Parish Church

Registered charity 1133917 · since 2010tonbridgeparishchurch.org.uk·United Kingdom·Updated 29 October 2026

Key takeaways

Tonbridge Parish Church presents its giving as part of its Christian mission, so a request will fit best if it clearly serves that mission, with a link to the parish's work in the UK or overseas.
Neither the annual report nor the register gives an annual grants total or a grant range, so there is no basis for judging a realistic size, and a modest first request is the safer course.
No application process is published, so get in touch through the contact shown and ask the church how it considers requests, since the sources give no timing guidance.
Its giving is distributed by a Mission Action Group that meets quarterly with congregation representatives, so a request may need to wait for one of those meetings.
The sources set out no exclusions or eligibility rules, so this profile gives no reason for any organisation to rule itself out.

Overview

Tonbridge Parish Church is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (charity number 1133917).

Tonbridge Parish Church is a charity registered in England and Wales that exists to promote the whole mission of the Church in its parish, through regular worship, pastoral work including visiting the sick and bereaved, teaching of Christianity, and taking religious assemblies in schools. It also supports other charities in the UK and overseas. Its giving runs through two programmes: the Mission Action Group, which distributes the Mission Action Group tithe, and the Kondoa Sub Committee, which oversees the link between the parish and the Diocese of Kondoa in Tanzania.

What they fund

Priority Areas

The parish presents its giving as part of its Christian mission. Its Mission Action Group is responsible for distributing a tithe and meets quarterly with representatives from the congregations. A separate subcommittee oversees the parish’s link with the Diocese of Kondoa in Tanzania. The church says it supports mission partners, and its activities include supporting other charities in the UK and overseas. Its vision is to gather people with the Gospel, grow together under God’s word and go out into Tonbridge and beyond.

Themes

Christian mission

Geographic Focus

UK.

How to apply

No application process is published in the charity's annual report, its register entry or its website. The contact shown is for getting in touch.

Where they fund

Where it says it funds

United Kingdom

Similar funders

Funders supporting work similar to Tonbridge Parish Church.

The Parish of DibdenNo public processGave £34,197 Heswall ParishInvitation onlyGave £19,524 St Mary's Church, Bury St EdmundsNo public processGave £45,337 St George's Church, PoyntonNo public process Chanctonbury ChurchRollingGave £38,551 City Rise St Mark's BatterseaNo public processGave £38,028 St Paul’s EalingNo public processGave £102k The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of Holy Trinity, Headington Quarry, OxfordNo public processGave £4,398 St George’s ChurchNo public processGave £19,510 East Ham ParishNo public processGave £640

Five years of accounts

Financial year	Income	Expenditure	Grants paid	Accounts document
year to 31 December 2021	£495,138	£451,529	—	Accounts for year to 31 December 2021
year to 31 December 2022	£623,159	£413,541	—	Accounts for year to 31 December 2022
year to 31 December 2023	£592,007	£551,010	—	Accounts for year to 31 December 2023
year to 31 December 2024	£730,452	£663,119	—	Accounts for year to 31 December 2024
year to 31 December 2025	£457,557	£555,277	—	Accounts for year to 31 December 2025

— No grants figure for those years.

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.