THE FRIENDS OF WELLS CATHEDRAL

Registered charity 208797 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Grant making to Cathedral Chapter & Departments. Membership activities such as talks and outings.

Objects

TO SEEK TO CO-OPERATE WITH THE CHAPTER OF THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST ANDREW IN WELLS AND TO FURTHER THE MISSION AND CHRISTIAN PURPOSE AND TO MAINTAIN THE WORSHIP OF THE CATHEDRAL (FOR FURTHER DETAILS SEE CLAUSE 2 OF THE CONSTITUTION)

Area of benefit: WELLS

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

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that free reserves are negative £35,811, with unrestricted liabilities including grant commitments totalling £559,540. The trustees note that fixed asset investments could be realised to provide necessary cash flow and are satisfied that overall reserves remain appropriate for day-to-day operations.

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.

• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures

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.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 4.9% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Arnold Willschair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Anne Paul
• Cressida Charlotte Parsons · trustee of 1 other charity
• David Alastair Morgan-Hewitt · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Megan Isobel Jane Daffern · trustee of 2 other charities
• John Parsons
• Juliette Marie Coakes
• Maureen Frances Anne Boylan
• Paul Richard Dickinson · trustee of 2 other charities
• Philip Haldane Nunnerley
• Richard Thomas Wynn-Jones · trustee of 1 other charity
• SIMON JAMES BIRKETT

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

Operates in: Somerset

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Side by side with its peers

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