THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF GREYFRIARS READING

Registered charity 1129381 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as GREYFRIARS CHURCH READING, GREYFRIARS PCC, READING

Worship and associated activities

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £329,783 for the year ended 31 December 2024, with unrestricted consolidated reserves totaling £8,968,909. The trustees consider the financial position satisfactory, noting that while a 2025 budget shows a projected operational deficit, there is capacity within the overall financial position to absorb any shortfall. The charity maintains cash reserves in line with its policy of three to six months' expenditure.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Bruton Charles. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Rachel Bedford — Vicar (source)
• Natalie Worsfold — Associate Vicar (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.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~40.9 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 (44% 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: 35.9% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev Rachel Bedfordchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Alan Edward Cross
• Andrew Christopher Barwick
• Arfon Huw Rees
• Christopher Hall
• Christopher Neville Austin Greaves · trustee of 1 other charity
• Claire Louise Anderson
• David Mark Adkins · trustee of 1 other charity
• Deborah Jeffries
• Dr David Andrew Aubrey-Jones
• Dr JOHN DAVID LEDGER
• Esther Purdy
• Gary McEwan
• George Eapen
• Helen Anne Martin · trustee of 2 other charities
• Jane Karen Mae Peters
• Joshua Francis Talib
• MARTIN WILLIAM HALEY · trustee of 1 other charity
• Malveen Raheja
• Margaret Stone
• Nicholas Lam
• Professor John Frederick Missenden
• Rev Natalie Worsfold
• Sven Lewis

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

Operates in: Reading · West Berkshire · Wokingham

Income and spending

Common questions

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Side by side with its peers

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