FRIENDS OF CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL

Registered charity 1210093 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Friends of Canterbury Cathedral work to contribute financially and directly to many individual and vital prokects which ensure the conservation and preservation of Canterbury Cathedral for generations to come.

Objects

THE PRESERVATION OF THE FABRIC OF CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL AND THE GENERAL MAINTENANCE OF THE CATHEDRAL AND ITS ACTIVITIES AND SERVICES, ITS ORNAMENTS AND FURNISHINGS.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Religious Activities · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that free reserves of £1,656,911 are significantly above the trustees' stated policy target of £250,000 to £400,000. The trustees consider the charity financially robust and confirm 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 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
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Friends of Canterbury Cathedral (matched by registered charity number).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (19/02/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Janet Elizabeth Saunderschair
• David Robert ffolliott Innes
• Dr JOHN HUGH WILLIAMS · trustee of 1 other charity
• Irene Helen Nierzwicka
• Lady Annabel Colgrain · trustee of 1 other charity
• Louise Mary Cottrell
• Patricia Barrett
• Rebecca Eloise Lilley
• Rev Canon Dr Emma Louise Pennington
• Rev David Robert Malvern Monteith · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.