THE CATHEDRAL OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST TRUST

Registered charity 1152820 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The aims of the charity are to provide for the preservation and development of the building known as the Cathedral of St John The Baptist, Norwich, to promote the community use of the premises for education to provide a meeting place and to maintain the fabric of the building.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY SHALL BE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC TO FURTHER THE CHARITABLE WORK OF THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST IN NORWICH AND WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THESE OBJECTS TO PROVIDE AND MAINTAIN AN EDUCATION FACILITY, COMMUNITY AND VISITOR CENTRE CALLED "THE NARTHEX".

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Religious Activities · Recreation · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: South Norfolk, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's unrestricted reserves increased to £56,974, reversing a previous deficit, following a transfer of day-to-day operations to the Diocese. The filing notes that no reserves policy is deemed necessary as the Trust now focuses solely on fundraising for specific projects without incurring operational liabilities. The Trustees confirm reasonable assurance that the Trust will remain a going concern for the next 12 months.

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.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: going-concern doubt noted (FY2024) → no going-concern doubt (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 policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2021 (received 18/01/2023, 79 days after the 31/10/2022 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 31/12/2025)

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, largest income source: Donations and legacies (66% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (25/02/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Christine Quinn
• Douglas Lewins · trustee of 1 other charity
• Howard Trust
• Rev James Grant Hurst
• Rev Martin Hardy

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

Operates in: Norfolk

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE DIOCESE OF NORWICH CHURCHES TRUST.

• THE DIOCESE OF NORWICH CHURCHES TRUST income £55k
• THE NORWICH HISTORIC CHURCHES TRUST LIMITED income £321k
• NEWCASTLE CATHEDRAL TRUST income £133k
• THE ST JOSEPH'S BENWELL CHURCH TRUST income £456k
• NORWICH CATHEDRAL TRUST income £43k
• NORWICH PRESERVATION TRUST LIMITED income £119k

Side by side with its peers

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