LINCOLN CATHEDRAL LEARNING, ARTS, CULTURE AND EVENTS CIO

Registered charity 1175597 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Activities are planned to meet strategic aims and include the holding of arts and cultural events, lectures and fundraising events, engaging with a wide and diverse audience.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:1. TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION, THROUGH THE SUPPORT OF THE CHAPTER OF LINCOLN CATHEDRAL, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY: THE PRESERVATION AND MAINTENANCE OF THE CATHEDRAL FABRIC AND ITS PRECINCT AND THE FURTHERANCE OF ITS EDUCATION AND OUTREACH ACTIVITIES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THROUGH THE HOLDING OF ARTS AND CULTURAL EVENTS, LECTURES AND FUNDRAISING EVENTS.2. TO ADVANCE SUCH OTHER EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES SUPPORTED BY THE CHAPTER OF LINCOLN CATHEDRAL, THROUGH THE PROVISION OF GRANTS, SERVICES AND SUPPORT.

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Religious Activities · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Lincoln, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £73,861 for the nine-month period, with total income of £231,184 against total expenditure of £205,825. Free reserves stood at £58,622, which the trustees consider sufficient to fund cash flow for future planned activities through December 2028. The charity continues to operate on a going concern basis with adequate resources.

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
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~1.4 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (87% 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: 55.3% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Kevin Anthony Walton · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rowena King · trustee of 2 other charities
• Simon Matthew Jones · trustee of 4 other charities

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

Operates in: Lincolnshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LINCOLN ROAD CHAPEL.

• LINCOLN ROAD CHAPEL income £102k
• LONDON ISLAMIC CULTURAL SOCIETY income £282k
• LICHFIELD CATHEDRAL CHORUS income £36k
• LINCOLN CATHEDRAL MUSIC FUND income £111k
• THE CORPORATION OF THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF CHRIST IN LIVERPOOL income £4.6m
• THE LINCOLNSFIELDS CENTRE LTD income £534k

Side by side with its peers

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