THE FRIENDS OF WIMBORNE MINSTER

Registered charity 1163897 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Charity provides grants for the preservation and development of Wimborne Minster and its mission.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE THE FURTHERANCE OF ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE OR PURPOSES IN CONNECTION WITH THE MINSTER CHURCH OF ST. CUTHBURGA AT WIMBORNE MINSTER AND IN PARTICULAR1. THE PRESERVATION, IMPROVEMENT, DEVELOPMENT, CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR OF1.1 THE MINSTER CHURCH OF ST. CUTHBURGA AT WIMBORNE MINSTER IN DORSET AND ITS PRECINCTS AND ANY ASSOCIATED BUILDINGS (TOGETHER CALLED THE MINSTER BUILDINGS), AND1.2 THE FIXTURES AND FITTINGS, EQUIPMENT, ORNAMENTS AND CHATTELS (INCLUDING THE CHAINED LIBRARY) OF THE MINSTER BUILDINGS.2. THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE HISTORY OF THE MINSTER CHURCH AND THE PRESERVATION OF ITS HISTORY, INCLUDING HISTORICAL RECORDS.3. THE PURSUIT OF SUCH CHARITABLE OBJECTIVES, WITH PARTICULAR REGARD TO THE RESIDENTS OF WIMBORNE MINSTER, AS THE CHARITY TRUSTEES SHALL DECIDE WILL BENEFIT THE MINSTER BUILDINGS AND/OR THE MISSION OF THE MINSTER CHURCH.

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 · Environment/conservation/heritage · Other Charitable Purposes · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity holds total unrestricted reserves of £294,789.70 against total funds of £466,540.26. The trustees report a healthy financial position with no doubts about continuing to operate. The accounts were subject to an independent examination rather than a full audit.

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 3 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
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

Register events

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew John Patrick · trustee of 2 other charities
• David Allen
• John Hughes
• John Stevenson
• Linda Salter
• Michael Sharpe
• Peter Frederick Cook · trustee of 4 other charities
• Rev Andrew John William Rowland · trustee of 9 other charities
• Rev Michael Harding
• Rosemary Protheroe
• Sarah Anne Ruth Steele · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Dorset

Income and spending

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