ST MARY'S TRUST

Registered charity 259887 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

St Mary's Trust acts principally to benefit the church of St Mary, Bourne Street, Pimlico, London SW1 (Church of England). It does so by providing accommodation for the Vicar of St Mary's and other clergy, and persons working for St Mary's, providing social facilities and meeting space, and financial assistance.

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the Trust held unrestricted reserves of £585,903 at the end of the year, with total net assets of £2,016,415. Per the trustees' report, the Trust achieved a net surplus of £320,017 for the year, driven by a significant legacy receipt and investment income, despite substantial expenditure on the Pineapple Project. The trustees confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the Trust's ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~21.7 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 7.0 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 26.3% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 2.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• DAVID LAWRENCE MARCHESEchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• LORD COCHRANE THOMAS HUNTER VERE COCHRANE
• MR KRIS ROMANSKI · trustee of 2 other charities
• MR SHANE FLETCHER · trustee of 1 other charity
• Michelle Gurney
• Rollo Burgess

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

Operates in: City Of Westminster

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. MARY, BOURNE STREET, LONDON.

• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST. MARY, BOURNE STREET, LONDON income £272k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST MARYLEBONE WITH HOLY TRINITY ST MARYLEBONE income £1.3m
• ST MARY WITH ST PAUL TRUST AT PENZANCE CORNWALL income £217k
• BRIXTON FEOFFEE TRUST income £326k
• ST LUKE'S PAROCHIAL TRUST income £1.5m
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN ST MARYCHURCH, TORQUAY. income £121k

Side by side with its peers

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