THE SPENCE CATHEDRAL CHOIR TRUST

Registered charity 264558 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The maintenance of the choir of Canterbury Cathedral and its music including provision of bursaries, scholarships or financial assistance for boys, lay clerks and other members of the Cathedral choir including the organist and assistant organists, through grants made to Dean and Chapter of Canterbury Cathedral.

Objects

THE MAINTENANCE OF THE CHOIR OF CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL AND ITS MUSIC INCLUDING THE PROVISION OF BURSARIES OR SCHOLARSHIPS OR FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE IN THEIR DISCRETION FOR THE BOYS AND LAY CLERKS AND OTHER MEMBERS OF THE CATHEDRAL CHOIR INCLUDING THE ORGANIST AND ASSISTANT ORGANISTS.

Area of benefit: DIOCESE OF CANTERBURY

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: Canterbury, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the net asset value of the fund increased by 1.2% to £2,027,514, driven by a total investment return of £81,352. The trustees consider reserves sufficient to meet present commitments, with no stated reserves policy target or fundraising activities disclosed.

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.

• 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

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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• THE DEAN AND CHAPTER OF CANTERBURY · trustee of 5 other charities

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

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL TRUST FUND.

• CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL TRUST FUND income £430k
• BRECON CATHEDRAL CHOIR TRUST income £39k
• CANTERBURY CHORAL SOCIETY income £99k
• LEICESTER CATHEDRAL MUSIC FOUNDATION income £77k
• SALISBURY CATHEDRAL CHORAL FOUNDATION income £407k
• FRIENDS OF CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL income £248k

Side by side with its peers

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