EXETER CATHEDRAL

Registered charity 1206915 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST PETER IN EXETER

Exeter Cathedral Charity

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: Exeter, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Cathedral incurred an aggregate deficit of £1,774,000 for the year ended 31 December 2025, primarily due to disruption from development works and investment losses. Free reserves stood at £888,000, which the filing notes is below the stated policy target of four to six months of expenditure, equating to 3.3 months of operational costs. Despite the deficit, the Chapter considers the total funds position satisfactory and maintains a going concern basis with adequate liquid reserves for the next twelve months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Bishop Fleming 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.

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: EXETER CATHEDRAL ENTERPRISES LIMITED Companies House 01868645 · Financial health read from its filings

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 34.3% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Giles Frampton · trustee of 11 other charities
• Hilary Dawson
• JOHN ALBERT THOMAS LEE OBE DL · trustee of 14 other charities
• Jennifer Ellis · trustee of 13 other charities
• John Byfield
• John Mark Yallop · trustee of 1 other charity
• Paul Netherton OBE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Catherine Edmonds · trustee of 9 other charities
• Rev JAMES MUSTARD · trustee of 1 other charity
• Stephen Waine
• Teresa Turner
• The Reverend Canon Deborah Parsons BA Hons

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

Operates in: Devon

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE FRIENDS OF EXETER CATHEDRAL.

• THE FRIENDS OF EXETER CATHEDRAL income £392k
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Side by side with its peers

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