FRIENDS OF SHERBORNE ABBEY

Registered charity 208584 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Charity's objects are to support the upkeep of the fabric of Sherborne Abbey

Objects

"THE PURPOSE OF THE FRIENDS OF SHERBORNE ABBEY IS TO BIND TOGETHER ALL THOSE WHO LOVE SHERBORNE ABBEY IN THEIR DESIRE TO TAKE PART IN PRESERVING IT FOR POSTERITY".

Area of benefit: SHERBORNE

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

Causes: Environment/conservation/heritage · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity recorded a deficit of £25,688 for the year ended 31 December 2025, primarily due to a £34,059 loss on investment assets. Despite this deficit, the charity held unrestricted reserves of £953,020 at year-end, which the trustees consider sufficient to meet their policy of holding at least 12 months of expenditure.

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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management

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

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev Martin Paul Leechair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Alexandra Catherine Rose MacKenzie
• Bill John McDermott
• Christopher Hamon · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr David George Ferguson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Henrietta Susan Paul
• Hilary Jane Leavey
• Jennifer Estelle Huitson
• Justin Luke Chapman
• MR MIKE KEATINGE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Charles Mitchell-Innes Mitchell-Innes
• Samantha Clare Foster Henderson

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

Operates in: Dorset

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE SHERBORNE GIRLS FOUNDATION.

• THE SHERBORNE GIRLS FOUNDATION income £163k
• THE FRIENDS OF ST MICHAEL'S CHURCH, ST ALBANS income £25k
• FRIENDS OF SHERFIELD income £54k
• SHAFTESBURY ABBEY AND MUSEUM PRESERVATION TRUST COMPANY LIMITED income £88k
• FRIENDS OF TEWKESBURY ABBEY income £562k
• SHERBORNE FOOD BANK income £53k

Side by side with its peers

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