SOCIETY OF FRIENDS OF WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL

Registered charity 272899 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FRIENDS OF WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL

The principal object of the Society is to support the activities of Westminster Cathedral. Funds are raised to further this object from membership subscriptions, donations and by means of events approved and monitored by the trustees

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION AND IN PARTICULAR BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING THE MAINTENANCE, REPAIR AND EMBELLISHMENT OF WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL AND ITS PRECINCTS INCLUDING THE CLERGY HOUSE (ALL HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AS 'THE CATHEDRAL') AND THE SUPPORT OF CHARITABLE PURPOSES CONNECTED WITH WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL.

Area of benefit: CITY OF WESTMINSTER

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

Causes: Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Westminster, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reports unrestricted reserves of £65,169, which the trustees state represents six years of administrative expenditure, significantly exceeding their policy target of 12 months. The organization operated with a net surplus for the year, having generated £160,800 in income against £10,065 in expenses, although it noted that raising funds for its own running costs has proved more difficult than for specific projects.

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 5 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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2023 (received 31/10/2025, 365 days after the 31/10/2024 due date); year ending 31/12/2022 (received 24/07/2024, 267 days after the 31/10/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• BRIAN ANDREW HOLLINGSWORTH
• Cliona Howell
• Elizabeth Margaret Gibson MBE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Evan WJ McNamara
• George Pollard
• Mary Maxwell
• Peter Sheppard
• Rev Patrick van der Vorst

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 FRIENDS OF WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL.

• FRIENDS OF WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL income £1.2m
• FRIENDS OF PETERBOROUGH CATHEDRAL income £29k
• FRIENDS OF WORCESTER CATHEDRAL income £41k
• THE FRIENDS OF SOUTHWARK CATHEDRAL income £39k
• THE FRIENDS OF HEREFORD CATHEDRAL income £126k
• THE ASSOCIATION OF THE FRIENDS OF ROCHESTER CATHEDRAL income £56k

Side by side with its peers

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