THE FRIENDS OF ST PETER'S GREAT BERKHAMSTED

Registered charity 1160314 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Friends? objective is to use its funds (the Trust Fund) for the preservation, repair, maintenance, restoration, improvement and ornamentation of the fabric of the Parish Church of Great Berkhamsted and of the Churchyards occupied by or belonging to the Church. The charity is based and focused in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire which is an ancient market town with a long and important history

Objects

THE TRUSTEES SHALL STAND POSSESSED OF THE CAPITAL AND INCOME OF THE TRUST FUND AND OF ALL CONTRIBUTIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS FROM TIME TO TIME RECEIVED BY THEM FOR THE PURPOSES OF THE CHARITY AS HEREINAFTER MENTIONED UPON TRUST TO APPLY OR CAUSE TO BE APPLIED THE SAME AT SUCH TIME AND IN SUCH MANNER AND UPON SUCH TERMS AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DECIDE FOR THE PRESERVATION, REPAIR, MAINTENANCE, RESTORATION, IMPROVEMENT AND ORNAMENTATION OF THE FABRIC OF THE PARISH CHURCH OF GREAT BERKHAMSTED AFORESAID AND OF THE CHURCHYARDS OCCUPIED BY OR BELONGING TO THE SAID CHURCH.

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

Causes: Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

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

Latest income
£20k
Latest spending
£25k
Registered
2015

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Policies the charity declares

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Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2025

  • Volunteers: 80
  • Government income: £4,370 — grants £4,370 (3); 22% of the £20,259 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2024

  • Volunteers: 60
  • Government income: £9,170 — grants £9,170 (3); 46% of the £19,991 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2023

  • Volunteers: 60
  • Government income: £14,370 — grants £14,370 (5); 54% of the £26,604 total gross income on the same return

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Hertfordshire

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£20k£25k
31/03/2024£20k£19k
31/03/2023£27k£37k
31/03/2022£250k£233k
31/03/2021£444k£445k

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Heritage Fund15/12/2015£654k"Dead Space to Living Place: Transforming Rectory Lane Cemetery, Berkhamsted"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund12/06/2014£8k"Establishment of Friends of Rectory Lane Cemetery, Berkhamsted"