Newport and Carisbrooke PCC

Registered charity 1170906 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NEWPORT MINSTER, Newport Minster, THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF THE MINSTER CHURCH OF ST THOMAS THE APOSTLE AND ST THOMAS OF CANTERBURY, NEWPORT

Regular public worship open to all

Objects

PROMOTING IN THE PARISH THE WHOLE MISSION OF THE CHURCH, PASTORAL, EVANGELISTIC, SOCIAL AND ECUMENICAL.

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

Causes: Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

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 generated a surplus on unrestricted funds of £17,777 for the year ended 31 December 2025, bringing total unrestricted fund balances to £194,158. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £79,017, which is below the stated policy benchmark of £150,000, although total unrestricted reserves including designated funds were above this target. The trustees confirmed that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future on a going concern basis.

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 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.

• Complaints handling
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Newport and Carisbrooke PCC (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• The National Lottery Heritage Fund — “We are very grateful for funding from the following organisations: The National Lottery Heritage Fund” (source page)

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~1.7 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (80% 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: 1.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (06/11/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Allan George Timbrell
• Andrew Charles Rolf
• Ann Susan Smout
• Anne Cameron Hewitt
• Christopher James Bradish · trustee of 2 other charities
• David Graham Salter
• Deborah Jane Cook
• Janet Holliday · trustee of 1 other charity
• Lorraine Johnne Devine Grundon
• Marian Elizabeth Brett-Hill
• PETER BARRY EDNAY
• Peta Adrienne Stevenson
• Peter Hewitt
• Peter John Whitlock
• Rev Abigail Grace Joy Lynch
• Rev Emma Cooksey
• Rev Stephen Sutcliffe
• Richard Hugh Smout
• Ruth Elizabeth Chambers
• Stephanie Taylor
• Stephen Alfred Sibbeck Smith
• THOMAS ARTHUR HARDEN

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

Operates in: Isle Of Wight

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

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

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, HARBORNE.

• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, HARBORNE income £882k
• NEWMARKET COMMUNITY CHURCH income £104k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST, WESTBOURNE IN THE DIOCESE OF CHICHESTER income £160k
• Ruskington Community Church income £61k
• PORTCHESTER FREE CHURCH TRUST income £149k
• THE PCC OF HARBOUR CHURCH PORTSMOUTH income £980k

Side by side with its peers

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