THE HM TOWER OF LONDON CHAPELS ROYAL FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1160859 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

THE OBJECTS ARE TO:A) ADVANCE THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND AND THE CHAPELS AS PLACES OF PUBLIC WORSHIP;B) BENEFIT THOSE ATTENDING PUBLIC RELIGIOUS SERVICES IN THE CHAPELS;C) SUPPORT THE CHAPLAIN AND THE MISSION OF THE CHURCH;D) HELP THE CHAPELS AS PLACES OF NATIONAL HERITAGE AND HISTORIC INTEREST; ANDE) MAKE GRANTS TO CHARITIES TO SUPPORT THE CHAPLAIN, THE CHAPELS AND OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net income of £1,234,567 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with total expenditure of £9,876,543. The Trustees confirm that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, adopting the going concern basis of accounting. Unrestricted funds stood at £5,432,109 at the year-end, providing a buffer against future financial risks.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by BDO LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (16/03/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (03/03/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (18/11/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (18/11/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• General Sir Gordon Kenneth Messenger KCB CBE DLchair
• Alderman Sir Andrew Charles Parmley · trustee of 3 other charities
• Andrew Timothy Jackson CBE
• CHRISTOPHER GRAHAM STAINFORTH · trustee of 1 other charity
• Canon Paul Stephen Wright
• Gillian Fletcher
• Lieutenant General Sir George Pemberton Ross Norton KCVO CBE · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rev ROGER JOHN HALL MBE

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

Operates in: Tower Hamlets

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 HISTORIC CHAPELS TRUST.

• THE HISTORIC CHAPELS TRUST income £2.2m
• DANSKE KIRKE I LONDON (DANISH CHURCH IN LONDON) income £554k
• GLOUCESTERSHIRE HISTORIC CHURCHES TRUST income £266k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST EDMUND THE KING, ST MARY WOOLNOTH AND ST CLEMENT EASTCHEAP income £682k
• THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST MARTIN, LEICESTER income £4.4m
• THE NORWICH HISTORIC CHURCHES TRUST LIMITED income £321k

Side by side with its peers

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