ST MARY'S ABBEY, QUARR

Registered charity 1165957 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q17677646 · also known as QUARR ABBEY

The main aims of the charity are the promotion of the Catholic religion and hospitality to all visitors to the Abbey, in the spirit of the Rule of St Benedict. To preserve the spiritual identity of the Abbey and its Benedictine community through maintenance projects to preserve the Abbey and its building; and running the Abbey's tea shop, farm shop and art gallery for the benefit of its visitors.

Objects

1) THE MAINTENANCE OF WORSHIP IN THE ABBEY CHURCH AND OF THE RESIDENT BENEDICTINE COMMUNITY.2) THE MAINTENANCE OF THE GUEST HOUSE, WHICH IS IN CONSTANT USE FOR THE PURPOSE OF RELIGIOUS RETREATS.3) FOSTERING THE LIFE AND WORK OF THE BENEDICTINE COMMUNITY ACCORDING TO THE NORMS OF THE SOLESMES CONGREGATION.4) TO PROMOTE THE CATHOLIC FAITH FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THROUGH CARRYING OUT SPIRITUAL DUTIES IN THE COMMUNITY INCLUDING THE GIVING OF RETREATS.

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: Isle of Wight, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred an overall deficit of £17,763 for the year ended 31 December 2025, following a deficit of £98,665 in the prior year. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £964,701, which the trustees consider sufficient to cover 9 to 12 months of costs given the variable nature of income. The trustees acknowledge challenges regarding the insufficient performance of income activities and the impact of the Covid years on reserves.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Bright Brown Limited. Discloses 5 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2021 (received 14/06/2023, 226 days after the 31/10/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £1.0m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~6.4 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (60% 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: 60.2% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (04/02/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• RIGHT REVEREND XAVIER PERRINchair
• FATHER GREGORY CORCORAN
• FATHER NICHOLAS SPENCER

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

Operates in: Isle Of Wight

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ST MILDRED'S ABBEY, MINSTER, KENT.

• ST MILDRED'S ABBEY, MINSTER, KENT income £645k
• ABBEY BAPTIST CHURCH, READING income £131k
• ST MICHAEL'S ABBEY CHARITABLE TRUST income £540k
• BANBURY COMMUNITY CHURCH income £245k
• FRIENDS OF SHERBORNE ABBEY income £143k
• ABBEY LAWN TRUST income £253k

Side by side with its peers

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