THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF SHERBORNE WITH CASTLETON

Registered charity 1130082 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SHERBORNE PCC

Parochial Church Council for the Parish of Sherborne with Castleton and St Paul's - Church of England

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.

Causes: Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Dorset, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the General Fund ran at a significant deficit of £104,926, driven by expenditure exceeding income, though this was offset by a £317,061 unrealised gain on investments. The charity holds substantial net assets of £7,691,586, primarily in endowment properties and investments, but the trustees report that cash is very tight on the General Fund due to these deficits.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by PKF Francis Clark. 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.

• Bullying and harassment 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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 31/12/2022 (received 08/03/2024, 129 days after the 31/10/2023 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.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~36.6 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (46% 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: 5.1% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev Martin Leechair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Bill McDermott
• Christopher Gordon Buesnel Hamon
• David James Fifield
• Deborah Carrington
• Dr David George Ferguson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr JOHN CROSSMAN
• Elizabeth Ashmead
• Henrietta Susan Paul
• Henry Wickham
• John Anthony Bradshaw
• John Nicholas Keating
• Jonathan Massey
• Katherine Pinsent · trustee of 1 other charity
• Leigh Fisher
• MR MIKE KEATINGE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Neil Grenyer
• Owen Richard Hinder
• PAUL BOYD LEE
• Peter Edward Neal
• Rev James Edie
• Steve Drew
• Timothy Michael Farr

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

Operates in: Dorset

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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

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