HEREFORD DIOCESAN CLERICAL CHARITY

Registered charity 1209423 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HEREFORD DIOCESAN CLERICAL CHARITY (3971578)

Advancement of education and relief of persons who are in need, hardship, or distress, who are widowed spouses and orphans of clergy (previously) licensed in the Diocese of Hereford.

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CHARITY IS THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND RELIEF OF PERSONS WHO ARE IN NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS AND WHO ARE, IN THE FOLLOWING ORDER OF PRIORITY:(1) WIDOWED SPOUSES AND ORPHANS (WHO ARE UNDER THE AGE OF EIGHTEEN OR ATTENDING FULL-TIME EDUCATION) OF:(A) CLERGY LICENSED IN THE DIOCESE OF HEREFORD AT THE TIME OF THEIR DEATH;(B) CLERGY WHO HAVE RETIRED HAVING BEEN LICENSED FOR NOT LESS THAN THREE YEARS IN THE DIOCESE OF HEREFORD IMMEDIATELY BEFORE THEIR RETIREMENT.(2) CLERGY WHO HAVE BEEN LICENSED IN THE DIOCESE OF HEREFORD FOR A PERIOD OF NOT LESS THAN THREE YEARS AND WHO HAVE RESIGNED FROM THAT LICENSED APPOINTMENT ON ACCOUNT OF DISABLEMENT, SICKNESS OR INFIRMITY.(3) CLERGY LICENSED IN THE DIOCESE OF HEREFORD.(4) CLERGY WHO HAVE SERVED A MINIMUM TERM OF NOT LESS THAN FIFTEEN YEARS SERVICE IN THE DIOCESE OF HEREFORD WITH INCUMBENCY STATUS OR EQUIVALENT AND HAVE NO SIMILAR PROVISION OR SCHEME AVAILABLE TO THEM, AT THE DISCRETION OF THE TRUSTEES.

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 charity holds total unrestricted funds of £179,592, with an unrestricted cash balance of £70,998. This cash balance is nearly three times the target level required by the trustees' reserves policy, which aims to maintain approximately 18 months' operating expenditure. The trustees consider the charity to have a stable financial outlook for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• Venerable Derek Christopher Chedzeychair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rev Anthony Ellis
• Rev Christobel Hargraves · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Colin Leggate
• Rev MICHAEL JOHN KNEEN · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rev Mark Daborn
• Rev Michael Cluett
• Rev Nicholas Gerard Lowton FRSA · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Richard Hill
• Rev Richard Tom Shaw · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Robert North
• Rev Ruth Margaret Leigh
• Rev SIMON BARNABY BELL
• Rev Suanna Rosier
• Sam Pratley
• The Right Reverend Richard Charles Jackson · trustee of 1 other charity
• The Venerable Samantha Jane Hustwayte · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Herefordshire · Shropshire

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