THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST BRIDE FLEET STREET

Registered charity 1131311 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PCC OF ST BRIDE FLEET STREET, St Bride's Church

The Parochial Church Council of St Bride's has the responsibility of co-operating with the incumbent in promoting in the ecclesiastical parish the whole mission of the church.

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: City of London, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net income of £41,098 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with total unrestricted funds of £908,609. Free reserves stood at £72,445, which the trustees state equates to 11% of the previous year’s unrestricted income, meeting their policy of holding at least 10%. The accounts state there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Field Sullivan Limited. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 0 (FY2024) → 1 (FY2025).
• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "below" (FY2024) to "above" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• 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.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Alison Joyce — Rector (source)
• Lord Black of Brentwood — Master of the Guild of St Bride (source)
• Robert Jones — Director of Music (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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• National Lottery Heritage Fund — “The current work repairing and restoring the roof and stonework of St Bride’s is thanks to generous support from the National Lottery Herita…” (source page)

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.7 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev Dr Alison Joycechair
• Alasdair Johnstone · trustee of 2 other charities
• Dominic McGinley
• Edward Bowsher
• Graham Hill · trustee of 3 other charities
• Jane Margaret Wilkinson
• Jennifer Kingsley
• John Joseph Forrest
• Lesley-Ann Jones · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rev Steven Morris
• Revd Dr Jeffrey Lake
• Simon Roderick Greaves · trustee of 1 other charity
• TERENCE SMITH
• Valerie Jean Locks · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: City Of London

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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

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Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.