THE TEWKESBURY ABBEY FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1187090 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

SUPPORT TEWKESBURY ABBEY IN: (1)THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH; (2) PROMOTING THE ARTS BY UPHOLDING THE ABBEY AS A CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE IN MUSIC AND SUNG LITURGY; (3) PRESERVING AND MAINTAINING THE ABBEY AND ASSOCIATED BUILDINGS ALL FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN TEWKESBURY AND SURROUNDING AREA.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Religious Activities · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · Recreation · Other Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that total resources decreased to £775,364 from £849,332 in the prior year, resulting in a net loss of £92,993. The trustees confirm that current reserves are above the minimum level required by their policy, which mandates covering funding commitments and governance costs for a future period of 3 years.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2020)

Reported reserves equal ~162.8 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 7.0 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (98% 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: 0.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (2.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (06/05/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (08/03/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• JOHN HARVEY PAINTER BA, FCA · trustee of 1 other charity
• Paul David Charman · trustee of 2 other charities
• Paul David Hunston · trustee of 3 other charities
• Rev Nicholas Duff Davies · trustee of 2 other charities
• Simon Richard Chorley

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

Operates in: Gloucestershire

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.

• Paul David Charman — trustee here and at THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF TEWKESBURY ABBEY WITH WALTON CARDIFF
• Rev Nicholas Duff Davies — trustee here and at THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF TEWKESBURY ABBEY WITH WALTON CARDIFF

Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ABBEY LAWN TRUST.

• ABBEY LAWN TRUST income £253k
• FRIENDS OF TEWKESBURY ABBEY income £562k
• ST MICHAEL'S ABBEY CHARITABLE TRUST income £1.6m
• THE WESTMINSTER ABBEY TRUST income £3.1m
• STONELEIGH ABBEY LIMITED income £568k
• DELAPRE ABBEY PRESERVATION TRUST income £2.2m

Side by side with its peers

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