THE WESTMINSTER ABBEY TRUST

Registered charity 1116371 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE WESTMONASTERIUM TRUST

TO FURTHER THE RELIGIOUS AND OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES OF WESTMINSTER ABBEY

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total resources increased to £6,013,936, driven by a significant rise in unrestricted and restricted funds. The Trustees confirm the charity is a going concern with sufficient financial cover through March 2027, supported by low administrative costs and ongoing support from Westminster Abbey Enterprises Ltd.

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 5 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Vanessa Simeoni — Head Conservator (source)
• Matthew Payne — Keeper of the Muniments (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~42.4 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (99% 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: 0.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• JOHN JAMES O'BRIENchair · trustee of 4 other charities
• Angela Henderson
• Paul Galpin
• Rev David Stanton
• The Very Revd. Dr David Hoyle KCVO MBE

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

Operates in: City Of Westminster

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE WESTMINSTER ABBEY APPEAL 1953 FUND.

• THE WESTMINSTER ABBEY APPEAL 1953 FUND income £199k
• WESTMINSTER AMALGAMATED CHARITY income £260k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ALL SAINTS WESTON income £329k
• WESTMINSTER ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESAN TRUST AND OTHER TRUST FUNDS ADMINISTERED BY THE WESTMINSTER ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESAN TRUSTEE income £75.1m
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST STEPHEN WITH ST JOHN, WESTMINSTER income £337k
• REDEEMER WINCHESTER income £324k

Side by side with its peers

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