WORTH ABBEY

Registered charity 1093913 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

In response to the call of Christ, the monks of Worth Abbey live as a community, create a sanctuary into which we welcome visitors to share our life of prayer & we offer evangelization through our many works outside of the monastery including within Worth School, parish & our retreat house. We support the Lay Community of St Benedict, the Compass project & work with refugees & the poor in Peru.

Causes: Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Religious Activities · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Group held negative free reserves of £6.0m at 31 August 2025, which is £8.8m below the trustees' estimated policy target of £2.8m. Despite this deficit, the trustees consider the Group a going concern, citing rolling forecasts that show sufficient cash to meet payments for the next 12 months even in a worst-case scenario.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £170,001 - £180,000 (FY2024) to £180,001 - £190,000 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Worth Abbey (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (84% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 4.9% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alda Andreotti
• Anne-Marie Piper · trustee of 1 other charity
• Brother Anthony St Leger Brockman
• Rev John Douglas Barrett · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rev Michael Thoms
• Rev PATRICK VINCENT FLUDDER
• Rev Peter Christopher Jamison
• Rev Peter Mostyn Williams
• THE REVEREND CHRISTOPHER LINLEY MURRAY

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

Operates in: Brighton And Hove · Peru · West Sussex

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WORTH SCHOOL.

• WORTH SCHOOL income £25.0m
• ST MICHAEL'S ABBEY CHARITABLE TRUST income £1.6m
• THE ABBEY SUTTON COURTENAY LIMITED income £120k
• AMPLEFORTH ABBEY income £22.2m
• Waverley Abbey Trust income £4.7m
• ST MARY'S ABBEY, QUARR income £1.6m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.