THE FRIENDS OF SOUTHWELL CATHEDRAL

Registered charity 1039131 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

TO MAKE GIFTS TO SOUTHWELL CATHEDRAL AND TO PAY FOR SUCH PROJECTS AS REQUESTED BY THE CHAPTER AND DEEMED APPROPRIATE WITHIN OUR FINANCIAL MEANS.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE RESTORATION, MAINTENANCE, REPAIR AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE FABRIC, ORNAMENTS, VESTMENTS, FITTINGS, FURNITURE AND FURNISHINGS OF SOUTHWELL CATHEDRAL, AND TO MAINTAIN PUBLIC WORSHIP AND MUSIC THEREIN; AND TO FURTHER SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES RELATING TO SOUTHWELL CATHEDRAL AS THE COUNCIL IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT

Area of benefit: SOUTHWELL

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £850,212, which the trustees describe as providing 'healthy financial strength' and being 'quite adequate to absorb deficits'. The charity reported a net income of £777 for the year, supported by significant investment gains, and maintains sufficient cash reserves to meet its obligations and future funding commitments to the Cathedral Chapter.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• CHARLES GUY LEGGATTchair
• ADELE TONI POULSON
• ALISON JANE SALTER
• CANON LIZ ROSE
• ELIZABETH HELEN JOHNSON · trustee of 2 other charities
• Iain Kenneth Hook
• Ian David Alexander Johnston
• JENNIFER HODSON
• Kevin Aubrey Hender
• PAULINE ROUSE · trustee of 1 other charity
• PETER GIBBINS · trustee of 2 other charities
• ROGER SYDNEY WILLIAM WILSON
• VICKI LOUGHTON

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Nottinghamshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE FRIENDS OF WELLS CATHEDRAL.

• THE FRIENDS OF WELLS CATHEDRAL income £818k
• THE FRIENDS OF HEREFORD CATHEDRAL income £126k
• FRIENDS OF SOUTHWOLD LIBRARY income £46k
• THE FRIENDS OF SOUTHWARK CATHEDRAL income £39k
• SOUTHWELL CATHEDRAL income £1.6m
• THE FRIENDS OF GUILDFORD CATHEDRAL income £60k

Side by side with its peers

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