NOTRE DAME DE FRANCE – SOCIETY OF MARY

Registered charity 1177995 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NDF, NOTRE DAME DE FRANCE, THE FRENCH CHURCH

establishment and maintenance of a French Roman Catholic Church in London for such lawful charitable purposes connected with the advancement of the Roman Catholic religion in England and Wales primarily among persons of French nationality or extraction or being French speaking

Objects

THE ESTABLISHMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF A FRENCH ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH IN LONDON IN SUCH MANNER AS THE TRUSTEES WITH THE APPROVAL OF THE SUPERIOR SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT AND OTHERWISE (AND AS A SECONDARY OBJECT) FOR SUCH LAWFUL CHARITABLE PURPOSES CONNECTED WITH THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIGION IN ENGLAND AND WALES PRIMARILY AMONG PERSONS OF FRENCH NATIONALITY OR EXTRACTION OR BEING FRENCH SPEAKING AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL WITH THE APPROVAL OF THE SUPERIOR FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.

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 · Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Westminster, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £671,307, which the trustees consider to be in line with their stated policy target of 3 to 9 months of budgeted operating costs (£260,000 to £790,000). Per the trustees' report, the financial situation is described as sound, with total net assets of £29,127,598, and the auditor confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Buzzacott Audit LLP. 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 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Fr Martin McAnaney — Superior (source)
• Mrs Elodie Brian — Chair (source)
• Fr Pascal Boidin — Rector (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (3 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~7.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (42% 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: 4.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (16/08/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ELODIE BRIANchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Emeric Clement Marie-Joseph BROCHARD
• Laure SAUVE
• Philippe LESPINARD
• REV Des HANRAHAN · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rev Alan Stephen Williams sm · trustee of 5 other charities
• Rev Martin McAnaney · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: City Of Westminster

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• Rev Alan Stephen Williams sm — trustee here and at THE SOCIETY OF MARY (MARIST FATHERS) CIO
• Rev DESMOND HANRAHAN SM — trustee here and at THE SOCIETY OF MARY (MARIST FATHERS) CIO

Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CHARITY FOR ROMAN CATHOLIC PURPOSES ADMINISTERED IN CONNECTION WITH THE ENGLISH PROVINCE OF THE COMMUNITY OF THE RELIGIOUS OF JESUS AND MARY.

• CHARITY FOR ROMAN CATHOLIC PURPOSES ADMINISTERED IN CONNECTION WITH THE ENGLISH PROVINCE OF THE COMMUNITY OF THE RELIGIOUS OF JESUS AND MARY income £8.0m
• DAUGHTERS OF THE HEART OF MARY CHARITABLE TRUST income £328k
• THE FRENCH PROTESTANT CHURCH OF LONDON income £238k
• FRANCE MISSION income £421k
• ST JAMES MAR THOMA CHURCH-UK income £338k
• CONGREGATION OF NOTRE DAME DE SION LIMITED income £1.5m

Side by side with its peers

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