CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF SAINT PETER AND SAINT PAUL IN SHEFFIELD

Registered charity 1207820 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SHEFFIELD CATHEDRAL

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £17,228 for the year, with unrestricted funds falling short of the stated reserves policy target by approximately £278,000. The trustees maintain that the charity has sufficient reserves and cash to continue operating for the foreseeable future, and the independent auditors confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern.

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 6 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• The Very Reverend Abigail Thompson — Dean of Sheffield (source)
• Neil Riley — Senior Non-Executive Member (source)
• Canon John Biggin — Lay Treasurer (source)
• The Reverend Canon Justin Dodd — Canon Missioner (source)
• The Reverend Canon Julie Upton — Canon (source)
• Pamela Liversidge — Director/Trustee (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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £575k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (66% 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: 23.7% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• The Very Revd Abigail Laura Thompsonchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• ANGELA MARY REES
• Ashley William Ellis · trustee of 1 other charity
• Howard Neil Riley
• PAMELA EDWARDS LIVERSIDGE OBE
• REV'D JUSTIN DAVID CAMPBELL DODD
• REVEREND JULIE UPTON
• Rev Jeremy Worthen Dr
• Rev Lucy Hope Sablan · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sally Louise Holding
• Shelley Smith Hemsley

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

Operates in: Doncaster · East Riding Of Yorkshire · Rotherham · Sheffield City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with EMMANUEL CHURCH SHEFFIELD.

• EMMANUEL CHURCH SHEFFIELD income £154k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST. PETER HUDDERSFIELD income £136k
• UNION CHURCH, SHEFFIELD income £101k
• CITY CHURCH SHEFFIELD income £424k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF GREAT ST BARTHOLOMEW income £1.6m
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST. GEORGE-IN-THE-EAST WITH ST. PAUL income £290k

Side by side with its peers

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