THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST ANDREW, PLYMOUTH

Registered charity 1134779 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ST ANDREW'S PCC, PLYMOUTH

Religious activities

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: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Religious Activities · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves of £695,563 are well covered by the charity's policy target of six months' running expenses. The charity reports a net movement in funds of £8,400 for the year, supported by significant investment gains and donations, while maintaining adequate cash reserves.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events 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.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~0.4 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (88% 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: 0.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/03/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (04/08/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• REV JOE DENTchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Anne Denise Sloan
• Aubrey Frank Curtis
• Christopher Heath-Taylor
• Debra Fewster · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Andrew Francis Whyte
• Dr Jeremy Neil Clark · trustee of 2 other charities
• Dr Jim Copper
• Dr Lorna Elizabeth Trenchard
• Gillain Wood
• John Alwyn Williams
• Judy Hodgkinson
• KATHERINE KINGDOM
• Karen June Tunstall
• MALCOLM AVERY PRIDEAUX BDS, DPDS
• Moli Tirion Johnson
• Mr Bob Styring
• Nicola Susan Duncan
• PAULINE ARKLE B.SC. HONS
• Peter Hodgkinson
• Rebecca Hodgkinson
• Rev Philip Cairns
• Rev Timothy David Partridge
• Rita Leah Whyte
• Susan Joan Scarbro
• William Maxwell Duncan · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Cornwall · Devon · New Zealand · Plymouth City · Uganda

Income and spending

Common questions

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• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST ANDREW, BURGESS HILL (DIOCESE OF CHICHESTER) income £718k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST ANDREW AND ST CUTHMAN STEYNING income £299k

Side by side with its peers

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