CULHAM CHAPEL TRUST

Registered charity 1169011 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The object of the Charity is the provision and maintenance of Culham Chapel as a place of worship and for the conducting of Roman Catholic religious ceremonies.

Objects

THE PROVISION AND MAINTENANCE OF CULHAM CHAPEL AS A PLACE OF WORSHIP AND FOR THE CONDUCTING OF ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIGIOUS CEREMONIES;THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC FAITH;THE PROVISION OF CULHAM CHAPEL AND OTHER PROPERTIES FOR AND THE ORGANISATION OF ROMAN CATHOLIC RETREATS;THE ADVANCEMENT AND PROVISION OF ROMAN CATHOLIC EDUCATION TEACHINGS PRACTICES AND SCRIPTURES AND THE PROVISION OF INSTRUCTION AND SUPERVISION IN THE ROMAN CATHOLIC FAITH INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE PROVISION AND SUPPORT OF EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENTS WHICH PROVIDE EDUCATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC FAITH;THE SUPPORT OF PRIESTS AND OTHER OFFICE HOLDERS IN THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH FOR ACTING AS SUCH INCLUDING THE PROVISION OF STIPENDS AND OTHER FINANCIAL SUPPORT;THE RELIEF OF THE SICKNESS AND PRESERVATION OF HEALTH AMONG THE LOCAL CATHOLIC COMMUNITY; ANDTHE PREVENTION OF AND/OR RELIEF FROM POVERTY AND THE RELIEF FROM FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AMONG THE LOCAL CATHOLIC COMMUNITY.

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: Wokingham, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £436,288 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in unrestricted funds carried forward of £63,711. The trustees consider the ideal level of unrestricted reserves to be six months of running costs, estimated at £62,000, meaning the current unrestricted reserves are slightly above this policy target. The charity relies on voluntary help to keep staff costs low and has identified financial sustainability as its major financial risk.

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 4 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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

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

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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 (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• MRS Caroline Therese Armstrong-Joneschair
• CRAIG ROBERT HAMILTON
• FATHER ALEXANDER JOHN SHERBROOKE
• Peter Beckford Clark
• Rt Rev Nicholas Gilbert Erskine Hudson · trustee of 1 other charity
• SISTER Linda Veronica Thomson · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Wokingham

Income and spending

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Oldham Chapel.

• Oldham Chapel income £30k
• EMMANUEL CHURCH DURHAM income £487k
• CENTRE CHURCH income £167k
• EMMANUEL CHURCH OXFORD income £497k
• CHRIST CHURCH NEWHAM URC income £156k
• THE SHARPHAM TRUST income £2.2m

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