THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST MARY, WOODBRIDGE, SUFFOLK

Registered charity 1129672 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PCC OF ST MARYS WOODBRIDGE

The Parochial Church Council of St Mary the Virgin, Woodbridge, has the responsibility of co-operating with the minister in promoting the ecclesiastical parish the whole mission of the Church, pastoral, evangelistic, social and ecumenical. It also has the responsibly to manage and maintain a Grade 1 Listed 15th Century church premises for the benefit of the parishioners and the wider community.

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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Registered contact address: East Suffolk, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity closed the year with a deficit of approximately £49,629, driven by a significant reduction in planned giving and legacies alongside a 54% rise in the wage bill. However, the trustees report that the unrestricted funds remain strong at £742,196, with free reserves of £91,995 considered adequate to maintain the policy of covering three months of unrestricted expenditure. The trustees do not believe there are material uncertainties about the charity's ability to continue.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2020)

Reported reserves equal ~15.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.0%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alison Ruth Davis
• Ann Rosemary Eve
• Anthony Patrick Waller
• BARBARA STEAR
• DAVID BERRIDGE
• DAVID SHARPLES · trustee of 2 other charities
• James Symons
• Michelle Bullard · trustee of 1 other charity
• Neil Logan Green
• Nicholas John Peter Cottam
• Patricia Ann Ford
• Philip Robert Poole
• Priscilla Steed
• Rev Nigel John Prior · trustee of 1 other charity
• SIMON MORRIS
• STEPHEN HARWOOD COLE
• Spencer Brook Green
• VERONICA ANN HOWE · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Suffolk

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST BRIDE FLEET STREET.

• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST BRIDE FLEET STREET income £1.2m
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST. MARY THE VIRGIN WESTONZOYLAND income £39k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST. MARY THE VIRGIN, LEIGH, TONBRIDGE, KENT income £66k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST. MARY MAGDALENE CHURCH, PECKHAM income £194k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE, RICHMOND WITH ST MATTHIAS AND ST JOHN THE DIVINE income £1.6m
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST WILFRID'S HARROGATE income £251k

Side by side with its peers

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