BRENTWOOD DIOCESEAN CATHEDRAL AND CHORAL TRUST FUND

Registered charity 1056374 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Trustees have expended funds on maintaining the cathedral and funding Ley Clerks to the choir.

Objects

(1) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN ESTABLISHING AND MAINTAINING SCHOLARSHIPS AND BURSARIES FOR LAY CLERKS AND CHORISTERS AND ORGANISTS OF THE CHOIR OF BRENTWOOD CATHEDRAL IN THE MANNER SPECIFIED IN CLAUSE 6 IN ORDER TO PROMOTE THE EXCELLENCE OF CHORAL MUSIC IN THE CATHEDRAL.(11) THE ADVANCEMENT OF RELIGION THROUGH THE MAINTENANCE AND MANAGEMENT OF THE FABRIC OF THE BRENTWOOD CATHEDRAL BUILDING IN ACCORDANCE WITH CLAUSE 7

Area of benefit: BRENTWOOD

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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Registered contact address: Chelmsford, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The provided document is limited to the reference and administrative details page of the accounts for the year ended 30 September 2025. It lists the charity's trustees, advisers, and contact information but does not contain financial statements, reserves figures, or a going concern statement necessary to assess financial health.

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 2 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

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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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 3 were received after the due date: year ending 30/09/2025 (received 30/09/2026, 62 days after the 30/07/2026 due date); year ending 30/09/2024 (received 05/08/2025, 6 days after the 30/07/2025 due date); year ending 30/09/2023 (received 28/10/2024, 90 days after the 30/07/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• GERALD VINCENT BODENHAM THOMPSON
• MARIANNE O'SULLIVAN · trustee of 1 other charity
• MR CHRISTOPHER NEIL HUNTER-GORDON
• PHILIP JOHN TOLHURST · trustee of 3 other charities
• PHILIP TOLHURST
• RT REV DAVID MICHAEL MANSON
• Rev Alan Stephen Williams sm · trustee of 5 other charities
• Rev Martin Boland · trustee of 1 other charity
• SIMON ANDREW DALTON HALL MBE DL · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Essex

Income and spending

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BRISTOL CATHEDRAL TRUST.

• BRISTOL CATHEDRAL TRUST income £3.1m
• LICHFIELD CATHEDRAL CHORUS income £36k
• ELY CATHEDRAL TRUST income £640k
• LEEDS DIOCESE CHARITABLE SOCIETY TRUST income £42k
• THE SPENCE CATHEDRAL CHOIR TRUST income £60k
• CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL TRUST FUND income £430k

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