THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF GREAT DUNMOW

Registered charity 1129192 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ST MARY'S, GREAT DUNMOW

Regular public worship open to all.Pastoral work, including visiting the sick and bereaved whether members or not.Promotion of Christianity through the staging of events and meetings and the distribution of literature.Supporting other charities in the UK and overseas.

Objects

Promoting in the ecclesiastical parish the whole mission of the Church.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, LOCAL.

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 PCC adopted audited accounts and received a successful grant of £250,000 from The National Lottery Heritage Fund. The document notes that the Garden Room appeal reached £41,000 and that the PCC agreed to increase financial support for churches struggling to pay their Parish Share. No specific unrestricted reserves figure or reserves policy target is explicitly stated in the provided text.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited. Discloses 3 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Agnes Grace Wilcox
• CATHERINE JOYCE SALMON · trustee of 2 other charities
• Dr Richard Anthony Beecroft · trustee of 1 other charity
• Helen Wright
• Lesley Janette Geen
• MICHAEL CHARLES BEST
• Malcolm Frederick Dulwich
• Maureen Carol Best
• Michael David Ryley · trustee of 2 other charities
• Nigel Griffith Arthur Dodd
• Patricia Ann Deakins
• Peter Jonathan Mallett
• Philip James Cobb · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Elsie Jane McKnight Bouffler
• Rev Thomas Zane Warmington
• Sandra Joyce Walker
• Stephanie Louise Warns

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

Operates in: Essex

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).