GLOUCESTER CATHEDRAL

Registered charity 1201309 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as Chapter of Gloucester Cathedral, DEAN & CHAPTER OF GLOUCESTER CATHEDRAL, THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST. PETER AND THE HOLY AND INDIVISIBLE TRINITY, GLOUCESTER

The Objects:(a) to advance the Christian religion in accordance with the faith and practice of the Church of England, inparticular by furthering the mission of the Church of England;(b) to care for and conserve the fabric and structure of the Cathedral Church Building;(c) to advance any other charitable purposes which are ancillary to the furtherance of the purpose referredto above.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHAPTER ARE:(A) TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FAITH AND PRACTICE OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND, IN PARTICULAR BY FURTHERING THE MISSION OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND;(B) TO CARE FOR AND CONSERVE THE FABRIC AND STRUCTURE OF THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH BUILDING;(C) TO ADVANCE ANY OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES WHICH ARE ANCILLARY TO THE FURTHERANCE OF THE PURPOSE REFERRED TO IN SUB-PARAGRAPH (A) OR (B).THE CHAPTER MUST ACT FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT WITHIN THE MEANING OF SECTION 4(3) OF THE CHARITIES ACT 2011.

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

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Registered contact address: Gloucester, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Cathedral's unrestricted General Fund recorded an accumulated deficit of £490,000 at the end of the year, which is substantially below the Chapter's reserves target of £757,000. The auditor has reported a material uncertainty regarding the Cathedral's ability to continue as a going concern due to this deficit and significant financial challenges, although the trustees maintain they have adequate resources for at least 12 months. The overall net assets decreased to £20,995,000, driven by a net expenditure of £1,271,000 and investment losses.

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 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £70,000 - £80,000 (FY2024) to £60,000 - £70,000 (FY2025).
• Going concern: material uncertainty (FY2024) → going-concern doubt noted (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• Campaigns and political activity 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)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• The Very Reverend Andrew Zihni — Dean (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).

• The National Lottery Heritage Fund — “Grant-giving organisations The National Lottery Heritage Fund” (source page)
• D G Albright Charitable Trust — “Chorister Sponsors and Music Patrons D G Albright Charitable Trust” (source page)

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 53.8% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Very Revd Andrew Zihnichair
• Alexandra Hardy · trustee of 1 other charity
• Canon Margaret Eleanor Sheather · trustee of 3 other charities
• Dr Sandra Millar · trustee of 2 other charities
• Jane Macdowall-Scott
• Marion David
• Rev Canon Craig John Huxley-Jones · trustee of 1 other charity
• Stuart Lee Hutton · trustee of 1 other charity
• William Donaldson

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.

• Alexandra Hardy — trustee here and at THE FRIENDS OF GLOUCESTER CATHEDRAL CIO
• Rev Canon Craig John Huxley-Jones — trustee here and at THE FRIENDS OF GLOUCESTER CATHEDRAL CIO

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).

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 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST MARTIN, LEICESTER.

• THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST MARTIN, LEICESTER income £1.7m
• CHAPTER OF THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, GUILDFORD income £2.0m
• CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF CHRIST AND THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY, ROCHESTER income £2.7m
• SOUTHWELL CATHEDRAL income £1.6m
• THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL COVENTRY income £2.0m
• THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY AND SAINT ETHELBERT IN HEREFORD income £2.7m

Side by side with its peers

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