CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, ST PETER AND ST CEDD, CHELMSFORD

Registered charity 1207270 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CHELMSFORD CATHEDRAL

The charity advances the Christian religion in accordance with the practice of the Church of England, cares for and conserves the fabric and structure of the Cathedral, and advances other charitable purposes which are ancillary to its other purposes.

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the Cathedral achieved a total net income of £38,000 for the year ended 31 December 2024, driven by an operating surplus on unrestricted funds and investment gains. Unrestricted reserves stood at £462,481, which is above the stated policy target of three months' normal unrestricted expenditure (£232,000). The auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Edmund Carr LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• The Very Revd Dr Jessica Martin — Dean (source)
• Averil Branwen Pooten Watan — Senior Non-Executive Member of Chapter (source)
• The Revd Canon Louise Williams — Residentiary Canon for Learning and Nurture (source)
• Stephen Stokes — Dean's Verger (Head Verger) (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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~7.8 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 18.2% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Adedamola Aboaba · trustee of 1 other charity
• Andrew Noel Copp
• Averil Branwen Watan · trustee of 2 other charities
• Canon Jose Augusto dos Santos Fernandes
• DAWN GRACE WEDDELL
• LORNA QUINN
• Professor Valerie Anderson
• ROBERT JOHN EVELEIGH
• Rev Sebastian David Tudor Harries
• Venerable Jonathan Edward Croucher
• Very Revd Jessica Heloise Martin · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Barking And Dagenham · Essex · Havering · Newham · Redbridge · Waltham Forest

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ROCHESTER CATHEDRAL TRUST.

• THE ROCHESTER CATHEDRAL TRUST income £166k
• CHAPTER OF THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, GUILDFORD income £1.7m
• THE CATHEDRAL AND COLLEGIATE CHURCH OF ST MARY, ST DENYS AND ST GEORGE IN MANCHESTER income £1.9m
• THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF CHRIST AND THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY IN THE DIOCESE OF CHESTER income £4.9m
• GLOUCESTER CATHEDRAL income £4.8m
• SOUTHWELL CATHEDRAL income £1.6m

Side by side with its peers

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