THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF CHRIST AND THE BLESSED MARY THE VIRGIN OF WORCESTER

Registered charity 1207427 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WORCESTER CATHEDRAL

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Objects

(1) 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). (2) IN PARAGRAPH (1)? ?THE MISSION OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND? MEANS THE WHOLE MISSION OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND, PASTORAL, EVANGELISTIC, SOCIAL AND ECUMENICAL; ?CATHEDRAL CHURCH BUILDING? MEANS THE BUILDINGS WITHIN THE ECCLESIASTICAL EXEMPTION FOR THE CATHEDRAL; ?CHARITABLE PURPOSES? MEANS PURPOSES WITHIN SECTION 2(1) OF THE CHARITIES ACT 2011.(3) IN FURTHERING THE OBJECTS SET OUT IN PARAGRAPH (1), 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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Cathedral reported an operating deficit of £212,065 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in unrestricted reserves falling to £43,543. The Chapter notes that this position is considered acceptable but requires action to maintain reserves at the required level, while also having recourse to the unapplied total return from the endowment fund to support unrestricted reserves.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Hazlewoods LLP. Discloses 6 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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• National Lottery Heritage Fund — “Reaching New Heights Project National Lottery Heritage Fund Grant Awarded” (source page)

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 19.5% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Canon Anne Penn
• Canon Christopher Price · trustee of 1 other charity
• Canon Henry Briggs
• Canon Patrick Swan · trustee of 3 other charities
• Canon Professor Lynn Nichol · trustee of 2 other charities
• The Reverend Canon Kimberly Bohan · trustee of 1 other charity
• The Venerable Canon Nikki Groarke · trustee of 1 other charity
• The Very Reverend Dr Stephen Edwards · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Worcestershire

Income and spending

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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 THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF CHRIST AND THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY IN THE DIOCESE OF CHESTER.

• THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF CHRIST AND THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY IN THE DIOCESE OF CHESTER income £4.9m
• THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS IN WAKEFIELD income £827k
• CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN BLACKBURN income £2.0m
• THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF SAINT JAMES AND SAINT EDMUND, BURY ST EDMUNDS income £2.7m
• ST MARY THE VIRGIN CHURCH (ST MARY'S), WIRKSWORTH income £117k
• CELESTIAL CHURCH OF CHRIST (SALVATION OF JESUS PARISH) income £36k

Side by side with its peers

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