THE DEAN AND CHAPTER OF ST DAVIDS CATHEDRAL

Registered charity 1159118 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Regular worship presented to the highest standards including a sequence of special services from Advent to Candlemass, outreach through our education and pilgrimage centre to schools and to visitors and pilgrims and a Ministry of Welcome to visitors to the Cathedral and the promotion of art and music through exhibitions and concerts.

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The charity reported a net surplus of £25,010 for the year, with total income of £1,264,928 and expenditure of £1,285,827. Free reserves stood at £406,009, which the trustees acknowledged was less than ideally constructed given annual expenditures ranging between £750,000 and £960,000. The accounts were subject to a qualified audit opinion due to limitations on observing inventory counts.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Bevan Buckland LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Dean And Chapter Of St Davids Cathedral (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Very Revd Dr Sarah Rowland Jones LVO OBE — Dean (source)
• Rt Revd Dorrien Davies — Bishop of St Davids (source)
• Revd Canon Leigh Richardson — Sub-Dean (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~5.6 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (59% 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: 26.5% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (28/09/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• CANON CHANCELLOR DEWI JAMES LLEWELYN ROBERTS
• Canon John Richard Cecil · trustee of 2 other charities
• Canon Mark Stephen Ansell · trustee of 2 other charities
• Canon Pastor Sheridan Angharad James
• Rev Canon JOHN PRYCE LEWIS
• Rev Canon LEIGH LAURENCE RICHARDSON Sub Dean
• Rev Canon MARY MORGAN RHIANNON JOHNSON
• Rev Canon Marianne Lily-MAy Osborne
• Rev Canon Mones Anton Farah
• Rev Canon Susannah Bale
• Revd Canon Andrew Graham Loat · trustee of 1 other charity
• Revd Canon Gareth McEwan Reid
• Revd Canon John Marcus Zipperlen MSc MTh
• Revd Canon Julian William Smith BSc BA · trustee of 1 other charity
• Revd Canon MICHAEL HUW ROWLANDS · trustee of 2 other charities
• THE REVEREND CANON S E JONES
• The Ven PAUL ROBERT MACKNESS · trustee of 2 other charities
• The Venerable Matthew Anthony Robert Hill · trustee of 3 other charities
• The Venerable Rachel Hannah Eileen Davies · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Pembrokeshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF SAINT PETER, SAINT PAUL AND ST ANDREW IN PETERBOROUGH.

• THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF SAINT PETER, SAINT PAUL AND ST ANDREW IN PETERBOROUGH income £2.4m
• THE FRIENDS OF ST DAVIDS CATHEDRAL income £711k
• THE CATHEDRAL AND COLLEGIATE CHURCH OF ST MARY, ST DENYS AND ST GEORGE IN MANCHESTER income £1.9m
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST EDMUND, DARTFORD. income £144k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF NOTTINGHAM SAINT PETER AND ALL SAINTS income £355k
• CATHEDRAL INTERNATIONAL - ASSEMBLY OF GOD income £3.1m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.