ST PAUL'S CATHEDRAL CHOIR SCHOOL

Registered charity 312718 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ST PAUL'S CATHEDRAL SCHOOL

The Charity educates, houses and supports the choristers of St Paul's Cathedral, to ensure that they have a full and nurtured life during the times when they are not singing in the Cathedral. In order to keep the choristers' life as normal as possible and to increase their social base,the Charity also educates non-choristers, some of whom are supported by Bursaries, funded by the school.

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net income of £78,158 for the year ended 31 December 2024, with unrestricted funds standing at £7,653,506. The trustees consider the school to be a going concern and maintain unrestricted reserves significantly above their stated policy target of 25% of annual running costs, although cash reserves are slightly below that percentage threshold.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.0 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (88% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Paula Gooderchair
• Alison Gowman CBE · trustee of 3 other charities
• Clement Hutton-Mills · trustee of 1 other charity
• Gillian Bowen · trustee of 2 other charities
• Mervyn McCullagh
• Morag Ellis KC · trustee of 1 other charity
• Peter Aiers OBE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Catherine Okoronkwo
• Rev Philip Banks
• Sheila Nicoll OBE · trustee of 1 other charity
• The Very Reverend Andrew Tremlett

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

Operates in: City Of London

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL CHOIR SCHOOL.

• WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL CHOIR SCHOOL income £7.1m
• THE SALISBURY CATHEDRAL GIRL CHORISTERS' FUND income £160k
• THE CHOIR SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION BURSARY TRUST LIMITED income £322k
• DURHAM CATHEDRAL CHOIR ASSOCIATION income £283k
• THE CITY OF LONDON ENDOWMENT TRUST FOR ST PAUL'S CATHEDRAL income £350k
• ST PAUL'S SCHOOLS FOUNDATION income £1.1m

Side by side with its peers

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