In the 2001 Scheme under which the Charity operates, ‘the Church of England’ (mentioned in the Objects of the Charity) means the Church of England as defined in the Fidelity Trust Act 1977, in the terms set out in the statutes of the Woodard Corporation dated 31 August 1974.
This definition is as follows:

‘The Church of England means the integral part of Christ’s One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church now in communion with the See of Canterbury which, whether established by law or not, shall continue its present apostolic constitution and succession of ministry, and shall retain the doctrinal standards of the Church of England as now so established, whether in the same form or order of words or not but substantially such as are set forth in and implied by the general and special services, catechism and rubrics of the Prayer Book and ordinal of that Church at this date, but so that in case the Church of England shall be disestablished and any dispute shall arise as to what are the doctrinal standards so set forth or implied the same shall for the purposes of this definition be deemed to mean the doctrinal standards of the whole Catholic Church of Christ referred to in the Prayer Book, the same being determined by reference to the dogmatic decrees of the Councils accepted as ecumenical by and to the general tradition of the said whole Catholic Church prior to the Great Schism between East and West in the year 1054.’