CATHEDRALS' WORKSHOP FELLOWSHIP

Registered charity 1199959 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE CWF

The charity raises funds to support craft training in cathedrals and provides specialist training in heritage craft skills to craftspeople working in cathedrals and the wider built heritage sector.

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £15,124 for the year, with total funds decreasing from £540,349 to £525,225. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted free reserves stood at £169,396, which the trustees consider sufficient to maintain a policy of six months' operating costs. The charity holds a strong cash position due to advance receipts of multi-year grants for programmes commencing in the next financial year.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by UNW LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Michael Sheppard — Executive Director (source)
• Carolyn Bruce — Chair of the Trustees (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.

Funders the charity credits

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

• Benefact Trust — “Benefact Trust – Scholars Programme” (source page)
• Vinehill Trust — “Vinehill Trust – Craft Skills Programme 2020-2025” (source page)
• Worshipful Company of Masons — “Worshipful Company of Masons – International Study Visit” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.8 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (100% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Carolyn Brucechair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Edwin David Colthup · trustee of 1 other charity
• Emily Charlotte MacKenzie · trustee of 4 other charities
• Guy Sampson
• Jacqueline Ann Molnar
• Melissa Tettey
• Simon Warburton

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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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 CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL TRUST FUND.

• CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL TRUST FUND income £430k
• CHICHESTER CATHEDRAL RESTORATION AND DEVELOPMENT TRUST CIO income £1.4m
• THE FRIENDS OF HEREFORD CATHEDRAL income £126k
• THE FRIENDS OF EXETER CATHEDRAL income £392k
• THE CATHEDRAL AND COLLEGIATE CHURCH OF ST MARY, ST DENYS AND ST GEORGE IN MANCHESTER income £1.9m
• HANDCRAFTED PROJECTS income £2.3m

Side by side with its peers

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