THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY AND OF SAINT PETER AND SAINT PAUL AND OF SAINT SWITHUN OF WINCHESTER

Registered charity 1202915 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL

Winchester Cathedral is the seat of the Bishop of Winchester and a centre of worship and mission. It provides a focus for the life and work of the Church of England in the Diocese of Winchester, living the mission of Jesus and serving the common good.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Cathedral reported a £75,000 deficit in the general fund for the year ended 31 March 2025, following a surplus in the prior year. Per the trustees' report, free reserves are currently below the stated policy target by £0.53m, and the budget for the following year is largely breakeven with a plan to rebuild reserves over five years.

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 3 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• The Very Reverend Christopher Palmer — Dean (source)
• Emma Bourner — Director of Learning (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).

• Aurelius Trust — “With thanks to the following organisations for their financial and practical support: Aurelius Trust” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £350k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~4.2 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 34.2% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (13/01/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• The Very Reverend Christopher John Ingamells Palmerchair · trustee of 3 other charities
• ALAN LOVELL
• Anthony Smith
• Dr Isobel Pinder
• Ian Power
• Rev Canon Andrew Mark Micklefield
• Rev Theresa Helena Nancy Kuin Lawton
• Sarah Peppiatt · trustee of 1 other charity
• The Revd Canon Professor Elizabeth Bridget Stuart · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Hampshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST MATTHEW, WINCHESTER.

• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST MATTHEW, WINCHESTER income £686k
• WINCHESTER DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £14.2m
• THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF CHRIST AND THE BLESSED MARY THE VIRGIN OF WORCESTER income £3.1m
• ST LUKE AND ST MARK PCC, WINCHESTER income £109k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF WINCHESTER ST LAWRENCE WITH ST SWITHUN-UPON-KINGSGATE income £177k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF CHRIST CHURCH WINCHESTER income £997k

Side by side with its peers

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