Fr Naylor is the Vicar of St Matthew’s Church, Carver Street in the Diocese of Sheffield. He combines his role as a parish priest with also being 0.5 Missioner in the Diocese. A native of Liverpool, Fr Naylor trained for the priesthood at St Stephen’s House, Oxford before serving his curacy in St Helen Auckland, County Durham. Fr Naylor is also a trustee of the Additional Curates Society, The Church Union, and St Matthew’s House Ltd.

Fr Charles was ordained in 1998 and has served in parish ministry in Reading and London, currently as vicar of St Bartholomew on Stamford Hill. While an undergraduate, he became a regular visitor to the monks of the Society of St John the Evangelist at their priory in Oxford and was admitted to the Fellowship of St John in 2001. He joined the charitable company in 2006 and in 2008 became a trustee. Fr Charles represents SSJE on the governing council of St Stephen’s House, Oxford. He is a canon of the Diocese of Cape Town and Commissary of the Diocese of the Windward Islands – both places where the FSJ serve.

Fr Stephen retired as Rector of Cambridge St Botolph in 2021 and now lives in the Staffordshire Moorlands where he experiences rural ministry.

Fr Stephen is Chair of the FSJ Finance Committee, which oversees all financial matters including the regular oversight of the performance of the Trust’s investment advisors.

He is a Priest Associate of the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham and was previously Chair of the Ely Diocese branch of the Prayer Book Society. He has been asked to establish a branch in Lichfield Diocese.

Previously he had a long secular career in finance and charities administration. 

Fr Andrew has been connected to The Fellowship of St. John since 2003 and has been a Parish Priest in the Diocese of Blackburn in Lancashire. Before ordination he was an operational Police Officer and has also worked in Management and Leadership Development. His interests lie in the strategic development of organisations and in workplace ministry. As a Trustee, he plays a key part in developing the Trust’s vision and mission. He is the link person between FSJE (UK) and SSJE in America and is exploring the global work of the Brothers based in Boston alongside that of FSJE.

Fr John was a Parish Priest and Area Dean in Richmond in the Diocese of Leeds. Prior to ordination he worked as Sales Director of a multi million pounds international textile group, spending much of his time in the Far East. Since retirement from full time ministry he is now Area Dean in the diocese of Southwell and Nottingham, in addition to local ministry work. Fr John has particular oversight of the St. George’s Trust.

DAVID BALLANCE, TRUSTEE AND DIRECTOR

David Ballance has retired from a career in investment management spanning nearly thirty-eight years, most recently as a Partner at Ruffer LLP. Prior to that he held senior roles at Rothschilds and Threadneedle, having originally graduated from Christ Church Oxford with a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. He originally joined the FSJ Finance Committee as its External Investment Adviser in 2018 before being elected a Trustee in 2021.  He has worshipped at St Alban’s Holborn for twenty-five years where he is Treasurer and a member of the PCC.

HOWARD RILEY, TRUSTEE AND DIRECTOR

Howard has been connected to the Fellowship of St John since 2001 and is currently Churchwarden, Parish Safeguarding Officer and a Beaver Leader for St Mary Magdalene Parish Church, Clitheroe in Lancashire.  Howard served in the Merchant Navy as a young man before joining the Police Service, serving for 38 years working in the field of Armed Policing and Counter Terrorism.  He currently manages a small property business but is now largely retired. Howard’s interests lie in the development of mission where it is most needed and the related enrichment of faith via our Catholic heritage.

Paula Spencer is a Counselling Psychologist and Counsellor working with adolescents in a Church of England secondary school in North London.  Paula has over 20 years’ experience of dealing with adolescent mental health and well being. She is a member of St. Bartholomew on Stamford Hill.

While living in community, the monks of The Society of St John the Evangelist (SSJE) were an Order of missionary priests and brothers. In 1920 they formed a circle of associates called the Fellowship of St John (FSJ) who live with a rule of life, support the monks and engage in various forms of Christian ministry.

The prayer of the Church, spiritual counsel, pastoral care and teaching are all at the heart of our incarnational and sacramental mission. The monks set up monasteries called Mission Houses across the UK and in Africa, India, the Americas and Japan– they also established parishes, schools, hostels and in South Africa even founded a whole new diocese. The Fellowship Ministries support the continuing need for incarnational mission – as our charity objects put it, for the building of the Kingdom of Christ.

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The scholarship is awarded at St Stephen’s House, University of Oxford and is named after Fr Richard Meux Benson SSJE (1824-1915), founder and first Superior General of The Society of St John the Evangelist. The Fr Benson Scholar is nominated annually by the Principal of St Stephen’s House and will be a seminarian of the college who is preparing for ordained ministry in the Church of England. The value of the scholarship covers university fees and enables higher academic study. St Stephen’s House was founded in 1876 and is an Anglican seminary of the catholic tradition. Over the years many priests who had been formed in the college later became monks of SSJE.

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The Trust gives grants to Anglican clergy, seminarians and students. The awards are currently worth up to £350. Each year the Trustees set a budget for the total amount that can be awarded and distribution is made until the limit is reached. We therefore encourage application early in the calendar year.

Clergy The grants for stipendiary clergy are for those taking sabbaticals. For self-supporting clergy (for whom official sabbaticals are rarely given) grants are available for recognised study. The grant will customarily contribute towards travel and accommodation costs involved in study. A brief letter of confirmation from a cleric’s bishop, archdeacon or continuing education office is required to support the application.

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The charity makes grants for Christian ministry/education in schools or churches with children aged 4-11. The Society of St John the Evangelist helped found and guide other Religious communities – among them The Sisterhood of the Holy Childhood. The Sisterhood was established in 1895 in a convent next to the SSJE Mission House in Cowley. It was a community for female qualified teachers who worked in many local elementary schools.

Applications are considered by the Trustees quarterly at the next available meeting. Please appreciate that the Trust may receive more applications than it is able to respond to with grants.

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These grants are available for lay ministries and the training and development of lay ministry. The grants bear the name of Bernard Mikeki (c.1861-1896). He was born Mamiyeli Mitseki Gwambe in Portuguese East Africa (Mozambique) and around the age of 12 he moved to Cape Town. He was educated by the monks of the Society of St John the Evangelist at their night school. He excelled as a student, particularly as a linguist. He mastered English, French, high Dutch and eight African languages – later in his life his work as a translator of sacred texts was pioneering and invaluable. He was baptised in 1886 and took the name Bernard. He then went to work at St Columba’s Hostel in Cape Town – a shelter run by SSJE to house African men particularly to protect them against alcoholism.

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