Christian Responsibility in Public Affairs
Charity Registration Number 117763
(Community Interest Company or CIO)
Trustees Annual Report
1 July 2024- 30 June 2025
Structure, governance and management
The Charity is constituted as a CIO with a goveming document. The Trustees were
Lord Griffiths of Fforestfach, Lord Mccoll of Dulwich CBE MS FRCS FACS FRCSE.
Rt Hon John Glen, MP, Mrs Anne Devlin, The Reverend John Lenton, The Rt Hon
Ruth Kelly, Mr Stewart Newton FCA, Mr Philip Wood and Mr Stephen Beer.
The Trustees held regular meetings throughout the year to plan and discuss the range
of activities as well as to meet for prayer and fellowship. The Trustees regularly
evaluate the impact that the activities of the charity have on meeting its objectives and
for the benefit of public good.
Objectives and actlvltles
CRPA was set up to support lay people holding positions of influence and
responsibility and to help them relate their faith to their work. to be more informed on
topical subjects and to be better equipped to carry out their roles in public service.
Activities include dinners, lectures, talks. panels, conferences and small group
meetings that are organised with international speakers from business. finan,
politics, education. religion, arts and the media.
Through CRPA, people have been encouraged to be involved in responding to
community needs, charitable ventures and educational initiatives. CRPA is
ecumenical and has no political affiliation.
Achievements and performance
Over the year, CRPA held regular meetings with over 1100 people attending different
events organised by the charity. Speakers have included Government Ministers,
Fomier Ministers, MP'S. Members of the House of Lords. CEO'S, Senior Civil Servants,
Chairs of leading companies, Archbishops, broadcasters, journalists, authors,
psychologists, academics, doctors, entrepreneurs, politicians, Chief Executives of
NGO'S, bankers. business and other professional people. The subjects of the talks
have included 'What does it mean to be human in a world of Ari,
In December 2024 an Advent Service took place with Professor Glyn Harrison MD
FRCPSYCH speaking and over 430 people attended as well as many others joining
online.
Financial Review and Reserves policy
All the Trustees are active in attending Trustee meetings and events organised by
the CIO and participate in the planning of activities. The Trustees regularly assess
the financial position of CRPA. They monitof the expenditure and maintain a healthy
balance of reserves. All activities are always planned and budgeted within available
resources.
On behalf of t
e Trustees:
Signed:
Date..
20 40,202>
Reverend John Lenton
Chief Executive
Honorary Treasurer:
Anne Devlin
Administrator:
Alison Brlston
||**Christian Responsibility in Public Affairs**
**aka CRPA**|**Christian Responsibility in Public Affairs**
**aka CRPA**|**Christian Responsibility in Public Affairs**
**aka CRPA**|**1177663**|**1177663**|**1177663**|**CC16a**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**For the period**
**from**|01/07/2024|**To**||30/06/2025|||
|||||||||
|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**38,285**
**-**
**5,624**
**8,890**
**1,036**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**53,835**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**53,835**
**26,400**
**12,136**
**2,542**
**16,380**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**57,458**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**57,458**
**- 3,623**
**-**
**25,300**
**21,677**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**38,285**
**-**
**5,624**
**8,890**
**1,036**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**53,835**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**53,835**
**26,400**
**12,136**
**2,542**
**16,380**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**57,458**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**57,458**
**- 3,623**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|Donations|**38,285**||||||**36,573**|
|Transfer from CRPA Reg253428|**-**||||||**2,449**|
|HMRC Gift Aid|**5,624**||||||**3,917**|
|Events and conferenceparticipation|**8,890**||||||**7,250**|
|Dividends on investments|**1,036**||||||**1,158**|
||**-**|||||||
||**-**||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**53,835**||||||**51,347**|
|||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||||
||**-**|||||||
||**-**||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**||||||||
||||||||**51,347**|
|||||||||
|Stipend|**26,400**||||||**26,400**|
|Advent costs|**12,136**||||||**11,492**|
|Home office & Administrative expenses|**2,542**||||||**1,664**|
|Windsor & eveningcosts|**16,380**||||||**17,106**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
||**-**||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**57,458**||||||**56,662**|
|||||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||||
||**-**|||||||
||**-**|||||||
|**_Sub total_ **|**-**||||||**-**|
|**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||||
||||||||**56,662**|
|||||||||
||**- 3,623**|**-**|**-**||**- 3,623**||**- 5,315**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**25,300**|**-**|**-**||**25,300**||**30,615**|
||**21,677**|**-**|**-**||**21,677**||**25,300**|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
27/04/2026
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B5 Liabilities**|**Details**
Bank account
**_Total cash funds_**
**Details**
HMRC Gift Aid
**Details**
Blackrock common investment fund
**Details**
**Details**
HMRC Overpayment
Signature|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**21,677**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**21,677**
**-**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**5,245**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**27,798**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**1,999**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
|||||
||||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**When due**
**(optional)**|
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||||Date of
approval|
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
27/04/2026
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Independent
Affairs (the '
I report to the t
2025.
Responslbllitie
As the trustees
with the require
I report in resp
Indep•nd•nt examlnerfs report to tho Irustses of Christian RponSIbIlIty In Public
Aff•lr• (th• 'Charlty'l. • CharItab In¢orporatad oryanlsation
I report to the trustees on my examinatlon of the accounts of the Charity for the year ended 30 June
2025
RMpon•lbllltl•• •nd b••lB of rnport
As tho trustees of thè Charity. you arn re8ponslbl• for th• prgpargtlon of the aco)unts in accordance
the wuiremenls ofthe Chan•8 Act 2011 {'thè ACVI.
I report in respect of my examination of tho Charity's accL)unts earried out under Section 145 of the
Ad. In carrying out my gxaminotion I have followod all applicable directio given by Charity
CommissN)n under sedion 14515)Ibl of th8 2011 Act
Ind•pnd•nt •xamlnetr# 8t•tsm•nt
I have my examination. I Confi that no material matters have rm to attention in
with the examination giving me cause to belwe that in any material re¥t
1. Konting re¢(*ds were not kept a$ required by se¢tion 130 ofthe or
2. the lUnts do not 8fX4)rd with those records.
l (lfim] that th¢r8 are no matters to which your attention shoukl be drn to en8bie a pm
understsnding of the xcounts to b8 reached.
I Vthitehead
Member ofThe Institute of Chartered Accountsnts in England and Wales
1 ValIan Road. Lon N22 7UD
24April 2028