THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL MINISTRY AREA OF WEST CARDIFF

Registered charity 1131153 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BENEFICE OF CANTON PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL, THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF CANTON

The promotion of the whole mission of the Church, pastoral, evangelical, social and ecumenical, in the Ministry Area of West Cardiff (including Ely, Fairwater & Canton)

Objects

The promotion of the whole mission of the Church, pastoral, evangelistic, social and ecumenical, in the parish.

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: Cardiff, Wales (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reports unrestricted reserves of £229,237, which exceed its stated policy target of approximately £182,500 (six months of expenditure). The accounts were subject to an independent examination rather than a full audit, during which the examiner noted a matter of concern regarding the lack of sight of supporting paperwork for grant income allocations. Despite this procedural note, the examiner confirmed that the accounts accord with the records and applicable regulations.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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)

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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 1.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev Andrew Charles Sullychair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Cynthia Ann Hill
• Dr Rhys Jenkins · trustee of 1 other charity
• Gareth Glover · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ian Huw Davies
• Jean O'Keefe
• Jonathan Bryn Scourfield
• Kathryn Elizabeth Puzey
• Liza Tercero
• Mark Saunders
• Pamela Yvonne James
• Paula Yates
• Peter Kellam
• Rev Jesse Smith
• Rev Sion Brynach
• Sarah Sharp
• Sian Clare Parker
• Stephen James Parry-Jones
• Susan Hurrell

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

Operates in: Cardiff

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with East Cardiff Ministry Area.

• East Cardiff Ministry Area income £253k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF VERWOOD income £163k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ALL SAINTS & ST MARKS WEST PARLEY income £285k
• THE ELDWICK CHURCH income £179k
• The Parochial Church Council and ecclesiastical parish of Kingswinford, St Mary income £1.1m
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST ANDREW, WIMBLEDON income £264k

Side by side with its peers

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