BEVERLEY MINSTER OLD FUND

Registered charity 224208 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MINSTER OLD FUND

Repair, restoration and maintenance of Beverley Minster.

Objects

REPAIR OF THE FABRIC OF BEVERLEY MINSTER CHURCH.

Area of benefit: BEVERLEY

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 FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net movement in funds of £75,579 for the year ended 31 December 2024, driven by investment gains despite a deficit on income and expenditure. The trustees maintain free reserves of £171,941, which they consider slightly exceeds their policy target of six months' expenditure. The charity operates a defined contribution pension scheme and has no disclosed trading subsidiaries or pension deficits.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Smailes Goldie. 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
• Investment
• Risk management
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~20.3 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 7.1 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (70% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.9% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.0%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alistair Needler
• David John Lock · trustee of 1 other charity
• Derek Robert KIRBY · trustee of 2 other charities
• MAYOR MAYOR Beverley
• Michael James Piper
• Neil Mckechnie
• Nick Dean
• PAUL GERALD COLLINS · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Andrew Clifford Broom · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rodney Barton
• SUSAN ROBSON · trustee of 1 other charity
• Simon Carr

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

Operates in: East Riding Of Yorkshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST JOHN AND ST MARTIN, BEVERLEY.

• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST JOHN AND ST MARTIN, BEVERLEY income £628k
• BEVERLEY CONSOLIDATED CHARITY income £1.3m
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH ST JOHN BAPTIST BERKSWELL income £156k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF THE MINSTER CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST HALIFAX income £499k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST MARY, BEVERLEY income £465k
• BEVERLEY BAPTIST income £91k

Side by side with its peers

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