THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF CHRISTCHURCH HOLY TRINITY

Registered charity 1130918 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PCC OF CHRISTCHURCH DORSET

Religious and charitable activities in and around the Parish of Christchurch

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: Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that free unrestricted reserves increased to £1,263,877 as of 31 December 2025, with total net assets reaching £10,087,720. The charity reports a surplus in unrestricted funds and notes that cash flow is kept constantly under review by the Finance Committee. The trustees and auditors confirm that the charity is able to continue as a going concern with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by MC Audit Limited. 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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: CHRISTCHURCH PRIORY ENTERPRISES LIMITED Companies House 01883301

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Reverend Richard Partridge — Interim 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 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~42.8 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 12.7% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (11/03/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (31/07/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (08/12/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anusha Hesketh
• Colin Bacchus
• DIANA NATALIE CONWAY-FRENCH LLB. HON
• DIANE PEARL WRIGHT · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr JAMES ROBERT MORTON
• Gregory James Rolls
• Hazel Baker · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ian Nelemans
• Joyce Elizabeth Davies
• MICHAEL BEAMS
• PATRICIA RICHARDS · trustee of 1 other charity
• Penelope Jane Nelemans
• Rev RICHARD BRUCE PARTRIDGE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Roger Mason
• Rosemary Hadland
• SUSAN JANE HAXBY
• Tracy Froud

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

Operates in: Dorset

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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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 PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF HOLY TRINITY, OSWESTRY.

• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF HOLY TRINITY, OSWESTRY income £199k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF HOLY TRINITY, HURSTPIERPOINT income £374k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ALL SAINTS WITH HOLY TRINITY, LOUGHBOROUGH income £356k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF HOLY TRINITY STAPLETON BRISTOL income £168k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF HOLY TRINITY, LEICESTER income £739k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF HOLY TRINITY ROTHERHITHE income £129k

Side by side with its peers

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