THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF SAINT JAMES AND SAINT EDMUND, BURY ST EDMUNDS

Registered charity 1202911 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ST EDMUNDSBURY CATHEDRAL

Religious services, music and choirs, community projects & social outreach programs

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a small net deficit of £5,304 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with total expenditure of £2,727,943 against total income of £2,722,639. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves excluding property were £83,959, which the Chapter acknowledges is below their stated policy target of three months' operating expenditure (£296,000). The auditors confirmed that the financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by MA Partners Audit LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• The Rt Reverend Dr Joanne Grenfell — Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich (source)
• The Very Reverend Joe Hawes — Dean (source)
• Sarah-Jane Powell — Chief Operating Officer (source)
• Caroline Rouse — Chief Finance Officer (source)
• Claudia Grinnell — Director of Music (source)
• Stewart Alderman — Enterprises Director (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).

• Allchurches Trust — “St Edmundsbury Cathedral would like to thank the following individuals, grant-givers, groups and businesses who are currently supporting us …” (source page)
• The National Lottery Heritage Fund — “Abbey of St Edmund, Reborn Awarded Delivery Grant by The National Lottery Heritage Fund” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 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 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.4 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 59.4% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev Joseph Patricius Haweschair · trustee of 3 other charities
• Barbara Marina Pycraft
• JOHN MARK PENDLINGTON
• Jane Haviland Webster
• Neil Peter Parsons
• Paul Torrington · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rev Katherine Helen Cunliffe
• Rev Matthew James Vernon · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Victoria Johnson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Susan Margaret Hughes
• TERESA LOUISE STARK · trustee of 1 other charity
• The Venerable Sally Ann Gaze · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Suffolk

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 Torrington — trustee here and at St Edmundsbury Cathedral Trust
• Rev Joseph Patricius Hawes — trustee here and at St Edmundsbury Cathedral Trust

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).

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Side by side with its peers

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