Friends of St Mary's Swansea

Registered charity 513022 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE FRIENDS OF SWANSEA ST MARY

General fundraising

Objects

THE PRESERVATION, REPAIR, MAINTENANCE, RESTORATION, IMPROVEMENT AND ORNAMENTATION OF THE FABRIC OF THE CHURCH OF SWANSEA ST MARY; TO PROVIDE ARTICLES FOR USE IN WORSHIP THERE, AND TO SEEK TO BIND TOGETHER IN A COMMON FELLOWSHIP ALL THOSE WHO LIVE OR WORK IN THE PARISH OF WHO WORSHIP IN THE CHURCH.

Area of benefit: CHURCH AND PARISH OF SWANSEA ST MARY

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

Causes: Religious Activities · Environment/conservation/heritage · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Swansea, Wales (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted free reserves were retained to provide working capital, with closing balances increasing from £213,681.30 to £263,371.30. The charity reported total income of £151,747.74 and total payments of £102,057.74 for the year ended 31 December 2025.

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
• Serious incident reporting 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev Justin Davieschair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Helen Murray · trustee of 3 other charities
• Paul Derrick Murray · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: City Of Swansea

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE FRIENDS OF ST MARY'S CHURCH SHOREHAM-BY-SEA.

• THE FRIENDS OF ST MARY'S CHURCH SHOREHAM-BY-SEA income £38k
• THE FRIENDS OF ST MARY'S CHURCH, BUNGAY income £27k
• FRIENDS OF ST CLEMENTS income £31k
• FRIENDS OF BE'ER MIRIAM income £34k
• FRIENDS OF SWANMORE PRIMARY SCHOOL income £33k
• THE FRIENDS OF ST MARY'S PERIVALE income £99k

Side by side with its peers

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