ELY CATHEDRAL TRUST

Registered charity 264803 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ORDER OF SAINT ETHELDREDA, THE ELY CATHEDRAL APPEAL FUND

The objects of Ely Cathedral Trust are to apply income for the repair and maintenance of the Cathedral and its surrounding buildings and to support the Cathedral Choir.

Objects

I) CHARITABLE PURPOSES CONNNECTED WITH ELY CATHEDRAL; (II) SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES OR SUCH CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONS AS THE TRUSTEES (NOT BEING LESS THAN SEVEN IN NUMBER) SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME BY DEED EXECUTED WITH THEIR UNANIMOUS CONSENT DECLARE.

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.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Religious Activities · Environment/conservation/heritage · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: East Cambridgeshire, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the financial statements have been prepared on a basis other than going concern because the trustees intend to transfer operations to a new Charitable Incorporated Organisation within a year. All assets and liabilities are to be transferred to the new entity at their carrying amounts, with no material adjustments arising from this change in basis.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: no going-concern doubt (FY2024) → not a going concern (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• 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

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Ely Cathedral Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Church Commissioners' Cathedral Sustainability Fund — “Website generously supported by Church Commissioners' Cathedral Sustainability Fund” (source page)

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

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

Reported reserves equal ~53.1 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Canon Paul Evans · trustee of 1 other charity
• David Green · trustee of 2 other charities
• Ian Pattinson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Isobel Philippa Newport-Mangell · trustee of 2 other charities
• Jane Lewin-Smith · trustee of 1 other charity
• Peter Garside · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev James Reveley · trustee of 1 other charity
• Revd Dr Sir Ralph Waller · trustee of 3 other charities

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ELH CHARITABLE TRUST.

• ELH CHARITABLE TRUST income £41k
• THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL COVENTRY income £2.0m
• ELY DIOCESAN MOTHERS' UNION income £29k
• THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST MARTIN, LEICESTER income £1.7m
• THE FRIENDS OF ELY CATHEDRAL CIO income £941k
• THE ELY DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £11.4m

Side by side with its peers

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