CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, DERBY

Registered charity 1207768 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as DERBY CATHEDRAL

The charity is a place of worship, providing daily services seven days a week, with the main eucharist service being held on a Sunday morning. We have a number of different aged choirs, from a junior choir, to an adult choir. We host large scale events, both community and commercial events. We are a Cathedral of Sanctuary, providing a safe space for all.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's financial position remains tight, with unrestricted net assets of £2,546,896, of which all but £135,472 are tied up in property and fixed assets. The budget for 2026 anticipates a deficit of £13,000, and the mission remains reliant on tight financial management and support from the Church Commissioners.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sumer Auditco Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: no going-concern doubt (FY2024) → material uncertainty (FY2025).

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

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Special version of God Save the King recorded Derby Cathedral and Royal School for the Deaf derbytelegraph.co.uk · 08/05/2023

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• The Very Revd Dr Peter Robinson — Dean of Derby (source)
• Carol Thomas — Chief Operating Officer (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.

Funders the charity credits

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

• The National Lottery Heritage Fund — “Derby Cathedral has been awarded a grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund to strengthen its organisational, financial, and environmen…” (source page)
• Cathedral Music Trust — “Derby Cathedral is delighted to announce that it has been awarded a grant of £24,200 from Cathedral Music Trust to help establish and suppor…” (source page)

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.3 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (59% 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: 11.2% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• The Very Reverend Dr Peter Robinsonchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Gwyneth Ann Shooter
• MARK JOHN TITTERTON · trustee of 4 other charities
• Rev Lindsay Pearson
• Rev Romita Shrisunder
• Susan Jane Whyld
• THE HON DAVID PIERS CARLIS LEGH
• Valerie Jane Grahl · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Derby City · Derbyshire

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.

• MR M J TITTERTON — trustee here and at THE DERBY DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE LIMITED
• The Very Reverend Dr Peter Robinson — trustee here and at THE DERBY DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE LIMITED

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).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF ALL SAINTS, CANTERBURY.

• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF ALL SAINTS, CANTERBURY income £136k
• THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF SAINT PETER, SAINT PAUL AND ST ANDREW IN PETERBOROUGH income £2.4m
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ALL SAINTS, DENMEAD income £148k
• JUBILEE CHURCH DERBY income £318k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ALL SAINTS, ALREWAS, STAFFORDSHIRE income £97k
• THE DEAN AND CHAPTER OF ST DAVIDS CATHEDRAL income £1.3m

Side by side with its peers

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