FRIENDS OF ST EDMUNDSBURY CATHEDRAL CHOIRS

Registered charity 1146575 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FOCC, FRIENDS OF ST EDMUNDSBURY CATHEDRAL CHOIR

The organisation makes grants to St Edmundsbury Cathedral Choir in order to promote the education and training of choir members and to enhance the choir's role as a major component in the worship and life of the cathedral and the diocese. The grants include funds for the provision of robes, sheet music and the defraying of expenses incurred on visits or tours by the choir to any part of the world.

Objects

THE CHARITY’S OBJECTS (‘THE OBJECTS’) ARE:A) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION BY PROVIDING SUPPORT AND GRANTS TO ST EDMUNDSBURY CATHEDRAL CHOIR.B) TO PROMOTE EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN CHORAL SINGING FOR MEMBERS OF THE ST EDMUNDSBURY CATHEDRAL CHOIR BY PROVIDING SUPPORT AND GRANTS TO THE CHOIR.C) TO PROMOTE THE ART OF CHORAL MUSIC FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £24,839.04 for the year ending 31 August 2025, bringing the accumulated fund to £81,385.83. Total income for the period was £60,276.98, while total expenditure amounted to £35,437.94. The balance sheet shows a bank balance of £81,065.83 at the end of the financial year.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 2 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.

• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries

Trustees · trustee networks

• HELENE MARGARET FRANCES UTTINGchair
• CRISTINA BUDDEN
• Dr Aruna Stannard
• Dr David Julian Peter Ellis
• FIONA KNAPP
• GEOFFREY HOUSE
• Josephine Sarah Louise Lovell Waters
• Judith Broadway
• LUCY MILLARD
• Martin Robert Evans · trustee of 1 other charity
• PHILIPPA WEYERS
• REBEKAH LOUISE ELLIS
• Rosamund Anne de Cova
• STEWART ALDERMAN
• TERESA LOUISE STARK · trustee of 1 other charity
• VALERIE MARGARET MOORE

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

Operates in: Suffolk

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