ST PAUL'S CATHEDRAL

Registered charity 1206171 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE CORPORATION OF THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST PAUL IN LONDON

St Paul's Cathedral is the Anglican Cathedral Church of the Diocese of London offering daily worship, and a focus for spirituality, prayer, learning and outreach. It is the seat of the Bishop of London and the mother church of the Diocese. The Cathedral is also a historical monument, built by Sir Christopher Wren to the glory of God, which welcomes hundreds of thousands of visitors every year.

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: City of London, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Cathedral generated an operating surplus of £2.4m in 2025, with total group income increasing to £26.6m. Per the trustees' report, free reserves of £17.2m are within the established target range of £15.5m to £18.9m, indicating adequate liquidity for operations. However, the filing notes a conservation deficit, stating that operational surpluses are insufficient to cover large-scale fabric maintenance, requiring reliance on donor support for major projects.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. 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)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL ENTERPRISES LIMITED Companies House 03313320

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

Reported reserves equal ~8.3 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (71% 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: 16.5% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (10/07/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• The Very Revd Andrew Tremlettchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Alison Jane Gowman · trustee of 1 other charity
• Clement Hutton-Mills · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Paula Gooder · trustee of 1 other charity
• Gillian Bowen · trustee of 2 other charities
• Mervyn Stuart McCullagh
• Morag Ellis KC · trustee of 1 other charity
• Peter Michael Aiers OBE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Catherine Okoronkwo
• Rev Philip Charles Banks · trustee of 1 other charity
• SHEILA ANNE NICOLL

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• Rev Philip Charles Banks — trustee here and at THE ST PAUL'S CATHEDRAL CHORISTER TRUST

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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 CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST ANDREW IN WELLS.

• THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST ANDREW IN WELLS income £5.7m
• THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF THE HOLY AND UNDIVIDED TRINITY OF ELY income £4.3m
• CATHEDRAL AND ABBEY CHURCH OF ST ALBAN income £3.4m
• THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY AND OF SAINT PETER AND SAINT PAUL AND OF SAINT SWITHUN OF WINCHESTER income £6.4m
• THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF CHRIST, BLESSED MARY THE VIRGIN AND ST CUTHBERT OF DURHAM income £5.9m
• THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY OF LINCOLN income £4.4m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.