THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, BLANDFORD FORUM

Registered charity 1132519 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BLANDFORD FORUM PCC

Blandford Forum PCC has the responsibility of working with the incubent in promoting the ecclesiastical parish through regullar worship open to all, pastoral work, including visiting the sick and bereaved. Teaching Christianity through sermons, courses and small groups. Taking religious assemblies in schools, providing youth activities with a Christian ethos.

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 total incoming resources decreased to £247,140 from £259,787 in the previous year, while total net assets increased to £407,930. The unrestricted general fund stood at £2,853, which the trustees note is a vast improvement on the previous year's deficit, although it remains below the stated policy target of six months' unrestricted payments. The independent examiner reported no matters requiring attention, indicating that proper accounting records were kept and accounts complied with regulatory requirements.

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 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.

• Complaints handling
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 3 were received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2024 (received 16/01/2026, 77 days after the 31/10/2025 due date); year ending 31/12/2023 (received 06/05/2025, 187 days after the 31/10/2024 due date); year ending 31/12/2022 (received 31/10/2024, 366 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 31/12/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~0.5 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Catherine Boag
• Debby Griffiths
• Elise Beaumont
• Heidi Roberts
• Jackie Brown
• Philip Whitcomb
• Rachel Anney
• Rev Chris Beaumount
• SARA NAN LOCH · trustee of 2 other charities
• Stuart Britton
• Wendy Hester

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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Side by side with its peers

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