YORK MINSTER FUND

Registered charity 252157 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

TO RAISE MONEY TO HELP SUPPORT THE FABRIC AND MINISTRY OF YORK MINSTER.

Objects

(1) SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES CONNECTED WITH THE MINSTER AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE. (2) SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES OR SUCH CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONS AS THE TRUSTEES BEING NOT LESS THAN FIVE IN NUMBER SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME BY DEED EXECUTED WITH THEIR UNANIMOUS CONSENT DECLARE.

Area of benefit: YORK MINSTER IN THE CITY OF YORK AND ELSEWHERE.

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: York, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that free reserves including designated funds were £2,574,460, which the Trustees believe are adequate to meet planned obligations and potential catastrophic costs. Total net assets decreased slightly from £7,844,871 to £7,822,408 due to investment losses and expenditure, though the charity maintains considerable cash and investment reserves sufficient for immediate requirements.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Azets Audit Services Limited. 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• Paying staff
• 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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.8 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 4.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (28/05/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• YORK MINSTER FUND LTD

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

Operates in: City Of York

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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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 FRIENDS OF YORK MINSTER.

• FRIENDS OF YORK MINSTER income £146k
• BEVERLEY MINSTER OLD FUND income £337k
• KINGDOM FAITH MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL income £428k
• THIS GENERATION MINISTRY LIMITED income £126k
• MAURICE & ROCHELLE MILLER FOUNDATION income £68k
• MYR CHARITABLE TRUST income £134k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.