 It is registered with the Charity Commission.The Society was founded in August 1905, by two brothers, the Revd Canon John Albert Douglas, then Vicar of St Luke, Camberwell, and the Revd C. E. Douglas, both notable figures in the Anglo Catholic revival.The object of the Society was to create –

"an Association of Christians in communion with the See of Canterbury for mutual assistance in the work of Christ's Church and for the furtherance of such charitable undertakings as may from time to time be decided upon, more especially for the popularisation of the Catholic faith."