THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST PETER'S PORTESHAM IN THE DIOCESE OF SALISBURY

Registered charity 1211835 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CHURCH OF ENGLAND

St Peter's Church provides a welcoming place for worship in the Village of Portesham. It supports the village CofE school and it provides a social hub for the community with coffee mornings, lunches and other lay based activities both inside and outside the Church. Small donations are given to local welfare activities, such as the GPs surgery, and village C of E Primary School.

Objects

PROMOTING IN THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH THE WHOLE MISSION OF THE CHURCH.

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: Dorset, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £275,893 at year-end, which the trustees consider to be a surplus of £250,973 above the amount needed to meet the next 12 months of anticipated expenditure. Although the charity reported a net expenditure of £95,572 for the year, this was largely driven by the completion of a major building project funded by legacies and restricted donations, rather than operational deficits.

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 5 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints 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
• 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
• Trustee expenses 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Its only annual return with a recorded received date was received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2025 (received 04/11/2026, 4 days after the 31/10/2026 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (27/05/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev ANDREW RAWDINGchair
• ANDY CUTTING
• CHRISTOPHER ROD
• DEBORAH JOHNSON
• DIANA LUDLOW
• Gordon Smith · trustee of 1 other charity
• HEATHER SMITH
• Mary Cutting · trustee of 1 other charity
• Robert Lasseter

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

Operates in: Dorset

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

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Side by side with its peers

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