THE CORPORATION OF THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF CHRIST IN LIVERPOOL
Registered charity 1205970 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LIVERPOOL CATHEDRAL
(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 purposes referred to in (a) and (b)
Causes: Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts
Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts
The accounts state that the charity reported a net operational deficit of £255,784 for the year, which was offset by investment gains and property revaluations to produce an overall surplus. The trustees note that the charity has set a deficit budget for 2025 and 2026, relying on sufficient reserves to support this until activity builds back to pre-pandemic levels and breakeven is reached in 2027.
Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Accounts audited by Mitchell Charlesworth (Audit) Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.
Leadership, per the charity’s website
- The Very Revd Dr Sue Jones — Dean of Liverpool (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.
Property (HM Land Registry)
11 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (10 freehold); recorded price paid £2.3m. 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 31/12/2024)
Cost of raising funds
£1.9m
Reported reserves equal ~2.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 41.9% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Liverpool City
Income and spending
Common questions
Is THE CORPORATION OF THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF CHRIST IN LIVERPOOL financially healthy?
Per its FY2024 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net operational deficit of £255,784 for the year, which was offset by investment gains and property revaluations to produce an overall surplus. The trustees note that the charity has set a deficit budget for 2025 and 2026, relying on sufficient reserves to support this until activity builds back to pre-pandemic levels and breakeven is reached in 2027. Its FY2024 accounts were audited by Mitchell Charlesworth (Audit) Limited.
Who funds THE CORPORATION OF THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF CHRIST IN LIVERPOOL?
Funders whose own accounts filings name THE CORPORATION OF THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF CHRIST IN LIVERPOOL as a grant recipient include KEN DODD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION, THE DULVERTON TRUST, CATHEDRAL MUSIC TRUST, THE JERUSALEM TRUST, DUCHY OF LANCASTER BENEVOLENT FUND.
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 THE CATHEDRAL AND COLLEGIATE CHURCH OF ST MARY, ST DENYS AND ST GEORGE IN MANCHESTER.
Side by side with its peers
Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.