CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL TRUST FUND

Registered charity 1112590 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL DEVELOPMENT LIMITED, CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL DEVELOPMENT TRUST, THE CANTERBURY GIFT

The Trust supports the priorities of Canterbury Cathedral, and raises awareness of the site and its significance, its heritage value and its activities. The charity raises funds to: conserve the building and its collections; enhance access and interpretation; develop the site as a centre for learning; promote the choral music tradition; and create sustainable opportunities for craftsmen and women.

Objects

3.1 THE CONSERVATION, MAINTENANCE AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE FABRIC AND CONTENTS OF CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL;3.2 THE PROVISION, PROMOTION AND ENCOURAGEMENT OF MUSIC AT CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL;3.3 THE DEVELOPMENT, MAINTENANCE AND OPERATION OF FACILITIES WITHIN THE PRECINCTS OF CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL; AND3.4 SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR WHICH THE CAPITULAR REVENUES OF THE CATHEDRAL ARE APPLICABLE.

Area of benefit: CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL;

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

Causes: Education/training · Religious Activities · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Canterbury, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported total net assets of £6.57m, with unrestricted general funds of £0.21m. The trustees state that their policy of retaining 6 to 12 months' operating costs as general funds has been achieved based on anticipated future expenditure. The charity is not actively fundraising and relies on existing funds and investment income to support the Cathedral.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Buzzacott Audit LLP. Discloses 4 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.

• Complaints handling
• 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 15/05/2024, 105 days after the 31/01/2024 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Canterbury Cathedral Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~2.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 23.3% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Benedict Moorhead DL
• Canon Andrew Dodd
• Geraldine Allinson OBE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Hubert William Ashton · trustee of 1 other charity
• Hugo Fenwick · trustee of 1 other charity
• Lady Annabel Colgrain · trustee of 1 other charity
• Pamela Jane Baxter
• Rev David Robert Malvern Monteith · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

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