CATHEDRAL AND ABBEY CHURCH OF ST ALBAN

Registered charity 1207312 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ST ALBANS CATHEDRAL

St Albans Cathedral is the cathedral church of the Diocese of St Albans and the parish church for the ecclesiastical parish of St Albans Abbey. Its objects are 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, and to care for and conserve the fabric and structure of the cathedral.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Cathedral achieved a significantly improved financial outcome in 2025, reducing its total net expenditure from a £436k deficit in 2024 to a £150k deficit in 2025. However, the filing notes that unrestricted reserves of £2.3m are below the stated targets for the Cathedral Fund (£3.8m) and the General Reserve (£425k-£678k), and that a backlog of essential conservation work is developing due to a lack of funds for anything beyond emergency repairs.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Mercer & Hole LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 0 (FY2024) → 2 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/11/2025)

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: 1.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Very Revd JOANNE KELLY-MOOREchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Anthea Jane Cecil
• Delbert Harold Sandiford · trustee of 1 other charity
• HELEN ELIZABETH GRAY
• JUDITH EVELYN RELF
• Jennifer Cooper
• Margaret Catherine Chapman
• Revd Canon TIMOTHY MARTIN BULL
• Revd Canon TIMOTHY MICHAEL LOMAX · trustee of 1 other charity
• Revd Canon WILLIAM JOHN MORRIS GIBBS

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

Operates in: Bedford · Central Bedfordshire · Hertfordshire · Luton

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.

• Very Revd JOANNE KELLY-MOORE — trustee here and at ST ALBANS CATHEDRAL MUSIC TRUST

Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ST ALBANS CATHEDRAL MUSIC TRUST.

• ST ALBANS CATHEDRAL MUSIC TRUST income £145k
• CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST THOMAS OF CANTERBURY PORTSMOUTH income £1.3m
• THE ST ALBANS DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £35.7m
• THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST MARTIN, LEICESTER income £4.4m
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF SAINT ALBAN THE MARTYR, HOLBORN WITH SAINT PETER, SAFFRON HILL income £203k
• THE CATHEDRAL AND COLLEGIATE CHURCH OF ST MARY, ST DENYS AND ST GEORGE IN MANCHESTER income £1.9m

Side by side with its peers

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