EXETER CATHEDRAL OLD CHORISTERS' ASSOCIATION BURSARY FUND

Registered charity 258664 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Charity exists to provide financial assistance to ensure that present day and future choristers of Exeter Cathedral Choir can continue at Exeter Cathedral School (and therefore also in the cathedral choir) if their families suffer significant financial difficulties that might require them to withdraw their children from the school.

Objects

ASSISTING THE PARENT/S OR GUARDIAN/S OF A CHORISTER OR CHORISTERS AT THE CATHEDRAL SCHOOL, EXETER, WHO ARE IN NECESSITOUS CIRCUMSTANCES, AND SO LONG AS THE BOY OR BOYS MAY REMAIN AT THAT SCHOOL.

Area of benefit: EXETER

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

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Wokingham, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income

£33k

Latest spending

£15k

Registered

1969

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £737,476, representing a net increase from the previous year's £724,795. The accounts state there are no matters casting doubt on the charity's ability to continue as a going concern. The charity's primary incoming resources are investment income (£23,118) and voluntary income (£9,585), with charitable expenditure on bursaries totaling £14,777.

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 2 of 6 completeness components.

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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2025

Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2024

Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2023

Volunteers: 2
Grant-making is its main activity

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

Trustees · trustee networks

Charlotte Naomi Synia Longhurst
Cressida Charlotte Parsons · trustee of 1 other charity
DOMINIC ASATER

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

Operates in: Devon

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2025	£33k	£15k
31/12/2024	£23k	£25k
31/12/2023	£21k	£26k
31/12/2022	£22k	£21k
31/12/2021	£24k	£16k

Common questions

Is EXETER CATHEDRAL OLD CHORISTERS' ASSOCIATION BURSARY FUND financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £737,476, representing a net increase from the previous year's £724,795. The accounts state there are no matters casting doubt on the charity's ability to continue as a going concern. The charity's primary incoming resources are investment income (£23,118) and voluntary income (£9,585), with charitable expenditure on bursaries totaling £14,777. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
VISCOUNT AMORY'S CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£92k
THE GIRDLERS' COMPANY CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£55k
DRAPERS CHARITABLE FUND	1	£44k
THE BARBERS' COMPANY GENERAL CHARITIES	1	£4k
THE OUSELEY CHURCH MUSIC TRUST	1	£3k
THE HELEN JEAN COPE CHARITY	1	£750

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CHICHESTER CATHEDRAL CHORISTERS' ASSOCIATION'S SCHOLARSHIP TRUST.

CHICHESTER CATHEDRAL CHORISTERS' ASSOCIATION'S SCHOLARSHIP TRUST income £31k
EXETER CATHEDRAL MUSIC FOUNDATION (CIO) income £289k
THE ST PAUL'S CATHEDRAL CHORISTER TRUST income £231k
THE CHOIR SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION BURSARY TRUST LIMITED income £322k
EXETER CATHEDRAL SCHOOL income £2.7m
LEICESTER CATHEDRAL MUSIC FOUNDATION income £77k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
EXETER CATHEDRAL OLD CHORISTERS' ASSOCIATION BURSARY FUND	£33k	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
CHICHESTER CATHEDRAL CHORISTERS' ASSOCIATION'S SCHOLARSHIP TRUST FY2026	£31k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
EXETER CATHEDRAL MUSIC FOUNDATION (CIO) FY2025	£289k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE ST PAUL'S CATHEDRAL CHORISTER TRUST FY2023	£231k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE CHOIR SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION BURSARY TRUST LIMITED FY2025	£322k	—	0	within	—	no doubt
EXETER CATHEDRAL SCHOOL FY2024	£2.7m	—	—	unclear	—	noted

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