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.

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves of £122,000 are significantly below the stated policy target of £634,000, creating financial pressure. The trustees and auditors have identified material uncertainties regarding the Cathedral's ability to continue as a going concern due to these low reserves and economic challenges. Despite this, the accounts were prepared on a going concern basis with a reasonable expectation of adequate resources for at least 12 months.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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 £60,001 - £70,000 (FY2023) to £70,001 - £80,000 (FY2024).

Comparing this charity’s FY2023 and FY2024 accounts as analysed by this site.

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 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~0.3 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 (37% 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: 39.4% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.2%) (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
• Rev Nicola Mary Arthy M.A.
• Revd. Canon Dr Rebecca Joanne Lloyd
• 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 CHAPTER OF THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, GUILDFORD.

• CHAPTER OF THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, GUILDFORD income £1.7m
• YORK MINSTER income £18.3m
• CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, ST PETER AND ST CEDD, CHELMSFORD income £1.3m
• SOUTHWELL CATHEDRAL income £1.6m
• St Edmundsbury Cathedral Trust income £270k
• CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF THE HOLY AND UNDIVIDED TRINITY OF CARLISLE income £2.0m

Side by side with its peers

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