THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST WILFRID IN RIPON

Registered charity 1204456 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as RIPON CATHEDRAL

Religious activities

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: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income rose by 4.9% to £2.1m, an all-time record, while expenditure increased marginally. The charity reported an unrestricted deficit of £77k, which includes a depreciation charge of £41k, resulting in a modest cash deficit of £36k. Unrestricted cash reserves at year-end were £408,190, which the trustees confirm is equivalent to over three months’ normal expenditure, exceeding their policy target.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Armstrong Watson Audit 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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

• Carol Pyrah — Chief Operating Officer (source)
• Anne Groves — Chief Financial Officer (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 ~2.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 32.7% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• John Dobsonchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Julie White · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rev MATTHEW POLLARD · trustee of 3 other charities
• Rev Michael Gisbourne · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Wendy Dalrymple · trustee of 1 other charity
• Richard Noake · trustee of 2 other charities
• Sir Andrew Lawson-Tancred · trustee of 1 other charity
• The Ven Clive Mansell · trustee of 1 other charity
• Thomas Edward Fielden · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: North Yorkshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with PINNER BAPTIST CHURCH.

• PINNER BAPTIST CHURCH income £359k
• THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST PETER BRADFORD income £1.1m
• TRUST PROPERTY HELD IN CONNECTION WITH CAPEL COFFA CONGREGATION CHAPEL income £20k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST MARTIN WITH ST PETER, WORCESTER income £213k
• RENEWAL CHURCH income £1.8m
• The City Church income £667k

Side by side with its peers

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