CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS IN NEWCASTLE

Registered charity 1203907 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NEWCASTLE CATHEDRAL

Newcastle Cathedral provides a regular pattern of worship. It offers a welcome to all who enter ~ and pastoral care to those in need of it. The Lantern Initiative is a key part of our life, and ensures support is offered to the homeless and those suffering with addiction. Our Music Team actively works with schools in disadvantaged areas to give them opportunities to sing in our choir.

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: Newcastle upon Tyne, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £8,717 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with total income of £1,531,670 and total expenditure of £1,653,522. Per the trustees' report, the charity holds £340,341 in free reserves, which is below its stated policy target of approximately £225,000, though the trustees remain satisfied that adequate resources exist to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Robson Laidler Accountants Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

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
• 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
• 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 Revd Canon Zoe Heming — Safeguarding Lead for the Chapter (source)
• Sharon Devlin — Director of Safeguarding (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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (72% 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: 16.7% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Robert Bilton · trustee of 5 other charities
• Dr Helen Lesley Paterson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Thomas Bruce Atkinson · trustee of 3 other charities
• Edna Beveridge
• Gavin MacFarlane Black · trustee of 6 other charities
• Lesley Ann Lee
• Rev Ruth Carole Hulse
• Rev Zoe Norah Heming
• The Venerable Rachel Astrid Wood · trustee of 1 other charity
• The Very Reverend Lee Paul Batson · trustee of 4 other charities

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

Operates in: Gateshead · Newcastle Upon Tyne City · North Tyneside · Northumberland

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with C3 NEWCASTLE.

• C3 NEWCASTLE income £102k
• NEWCASTLE CATHEDRAL TRUST income £133k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF NEWBURY ST NICOLAS income £554k
• HOPE income £53k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST NICOLAS, NUNEATON income £109k
• HEART OF THE CITY PARTNERSHIP income £524k

Side by side with its peers

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