CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL

Registered charity 1206913 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE CATHEDRAL AND METROPOLITICAL CHURCH OF CHRIST, CANTERBURY

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves totalled £4.30 million, which is below the stated policy target of covering six months' operating costs. The financial position remains challenging due to pandemic loan repayments and increased wage costs, though the trustees confirm the charity is a going concern with sufficient resources to meet liabilities as they fall due.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Buzzacott Audit LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~4.1 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (43% 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: 23.0% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr David Monteith Very Revchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Catherine Jane Ibbotson · trustee of 1 other charity
• David Ubaka
• Lindsay Yates · trustee of 1 other charity
• Natasha Ruth Traynor
• PAMELA JANE BAXTER
• Paul John Sylva FCG FCA
• Reverend Canon Andrew Dodd
• Reverend Canon Emma Pennington
• THE VENERABLE WILLIAM JONATHAN ADAM · trustee of 9 other charities

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

Operates in: Kent

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.

• THE VENERABLE WILLIAM JONATHAN ADAM — trustee here and at ST AUGUSTINE'S FOUNDATION

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).