CHICHESTER CATHEDRAL FRIENDS

Registered charity 1158498 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Chichester Cathedral Friends (the Friends) fund projects proposed by The Dean & Chapter ofChichester Cathedral.Chichester Cathedral Friends organises and runs a programme of social, cultural and educationalactivities which are made available to members and non-members.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE TO ADVANCE RELIGION BY ASSISTING IN THE SUPPORT OF THE CATHEDRAL AND CONTRIBUTING BOTH FINANCIALLY AND IN OTHER APPROPRIATE WAYS TO ITS PRESERVATION, MAINTENANCE, ENHANCEMENT AND MINISTRY AND IN FURTHERANCE THEREOF BUT NOT OTHERWISE:3.1 TO ENCOURAGE AND NURTURE PUBLIC INTEREST IN THE CATHEDRAL IN THE LOCAL COMMUNITY, THE DIOCESE AND THE WIDER WORLD;3.2 TO ASSIST AND SUPPORT THE DEAN AND THE CATHEDRAL CHAPTER IN MAINTAINING AND IMPROVING THE FACILITIES, AND SERVICES, AND TO DEVELOP AND PROMOTE THE CATHEDRAL’S MISSION.

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that total funds increased to £386,444, with unrestricted funds at £183,726. The trustees consider reserves of approximately £3,689 to be appropriate, noting that actual reserves are substantially in excess of this target. The charity reports a net income of £13,438, driven largely by unrealised gains on investments.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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.

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
• 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
• Investment
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANDREW DUNCAN GARDINER
• Christopher Andrew Verney
• Graham Kenneth Toole-Mackson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Howard Graham Castle-Smith · trustee of 1 other charity
• John Alun Siebert · trustee of 1 other charity
• John Melville GARDNER
• Malcolm Alexander Gill
• Margaret Sarah Gibson
• Philip Hugh JONES · trustee of 1 other charity
• ROBERT SIMON PARNELL BELL
• Susan Reynolds

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

Operates in: East Sussex · West Sussex

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with FRIENDS OF WORCESTER CATHEDRAL.

• FRIENDS OF WORCESTER CATHEDRAL income £41k
• CHICHESTER CATHEDRAL RESTORATION AND DEVELOPMENT TRUST CIO income £1.4m
• THE FRIENDS OF HEREFORD CATHEDRAL income £126k
• FRIENDS OF WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL income £1.2m
• THE FRIENDS OF LLANDAFF CATHEDRAL income £63k
• THE FRIENDS OF SOUTHWARK CATHEDRAL income £39k

Side by side with its peers

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