St Etheldreda’s Bedford Trust

Registered charity 232849 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ST ETHELDREDA'S HOME, St Etheldreda's Bedford Trust

The income from the Trust is applied for the purpose of advancing the work of deaconesses and female deacons within the Diocese of St Albans under the guidance of the Lord Bishop of that Diocese.

Objects

(1) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE WORK OF THE FEMALE BISHOPS, FEMALE PRIESTS, FEMALE DEACONS, FEMALE ORDINANDS AND FEMALE LICENSED LAY MINISTERS WITHIN THE DIOCESE OF ST. ALBANS UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF THE LORD BISHOP OF THAT DIOCESE;(2) TO RELIEVE THE POVERTY OF THE REMAINING SISTERS OF ST. ETHELDREDA’S HOME UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF THE LORD BISHOP OF THE DIOCESE; AND(3) IF IN ANY YEAR INCOME IS NOT REQUIRED FOR THE SAID PURPOSE THE MANAGING TRUSTEES MAY USE THE SAME FOR THE PURPOSE OF SUPPORTING WOMEN’S MINISTRY WITH CHILDREN WITHIN THE DIOCESE OF ST ALBANS AND UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF THE SAID LORD BISHOP.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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: Bedford, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total expenditure exceeded income by £1,682, a variance the trustees deem within tolerance given overall assets. The charity holds unrestricted funds of £120,580 and restricted funds of £1,009,346, with investments valued at £1,110,249. However, the trust reported a net investment loss of £41,449 for the year and anticipates needing to realise assets in the near future to support specific grant commitments.

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 3 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.

• Complaints 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2021 (received 14/02/2023, 106 days after the 31/10/2022 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rt Revd Richard William Bryant Atkinson OBEchair
• BISHOP OF ST ALBANS
• Cordelia Foster-Mason
• JANIS LARGE · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rev Anthony Lee Davis · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rev JENNIFER MARGARET CAPPLEMAN · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev LUCY FRANCES DAVIS
• SUZANNE CLACKSON
• THE REVEREND DOCTOR VICTORIA ELIZABETH RAYMER
• The Venerable David Middlebrook

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

Operates in: Barnet · Bedford · Buckinghamshire · Central Bedfordshire · Hertfordshire

Income and spending

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