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)

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHAPTER ARE ? (A) TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION IN ACCORDANCE WIT 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 FAVRIC AND STRUCTURE OF THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH BUILDING;(C) TO ADVANCE ANY OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES WHICH ARE ANCILLARY TO THE FURTHERANCE OF THE PURPOSE REFERRRED 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: Liverpool, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved an overall net surplus of £456,666 for the year, driven by investment gains that offset a net operational deficit. The group's total unrestricted reserves stood at £11,021,737, which the trustees consider adequate to support the charity's ongoing operations and meet its policy target of four months' operating expenditure.

Automated summary of the FY2025 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.

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
• 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 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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 43.9% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Very Revd Dr Sue Joneschair
• JUDITH LOUISE GREENSMITH · trustee of 1 other charity
• John David Daniel Sacker
• Lesley Carol Martin-Wright · trustee of 2 other charities
• MARGARET CARNEY
• Margaret Anne Swinson · trustee of 3 other charities
• Revd Canon Dr Neal Duncan Barnes · trustee of 1 other charity
• Revd Canon Mark Roger Stanford

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

Operates in: Liverpool City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF THE HOLY AND UNDIVIDED TRINITY OF CARLISLE.

• CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF THE HOLY AND UNDIVIDED TRINITY OF CARLISLE income £2.0m
• THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST MARTIN, LEICESTER income £1.7m
• CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF CHRIST AND THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY, ROCHESTER income £2.7m
• THE LONDON FULL GOSPEL CENTRAL CHURCH income £978k
• LONDON INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH income £1.4m
• LONDON CENTRAL CHURCH income £92k

Side by side with its peers

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