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.

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: Derby, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

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.

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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events 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
• 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
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: DERBY CATHEDRAL ENTERPRISES LIMITED Companies House 01860220 · Financial health read from its filings

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 4.7 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• The Very Reverend Dr Peter Robinsonchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Gwyneth Ann Shooter
• MARK JOHN TITTERTON · trustee of 5 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 DERBY PENTECOSTAL CHURCH.

• DERBY PENTECOSTAL CHURCH income £50k
• CHRIST CHURCH DERBY income £148k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ALL SAINTS' HARBURY income £114k
• CENTRAL,DERBY,UNITED REFORMED CHURCH CHARITY income £103k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ALL SAINTS WITH ST PHILIP MAIDSTONE AND ST STEPHEN TOVIL income £67k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ALL SAINTS ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF RIPLEY, DERBYSHIRE income £97k

Side by side with its peers

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