FRANCIS NEILSON TRUST FUND

Registered charity 514802 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Assisting Liverpool Cathedral with the maintenance and education of the boy and girl choristers and the provision of singing and music tuition.

Objects

to pay or apply the income arising therefrom in each year for any or all of the following purposes: a) supporting and promoting the education of the Choristers of Liverpool Cathedral Choir ('Choristers') in cultural and scientific arts; b) such other benefits to or for the Choristers associated with their overall education; c) supporting the provision of special services, not being part of the ordinary or daily activity of Liverpool Cathedral;d) in otherwise promoting the continued existence of Liverpool Cathedral Choir ('the Choir') within the Cathedral including through assisting in the recruitment of Choristers and the promotion of the Choir throughout the Diocese.For the purposes of this clause a Chorister means any Chorister who is under the age of 25

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.

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Registered contact address: Liverpool, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £139,080, while the trustees believe it is prudent to ensure sufficient funds for future development. The charity received a significant one-off transfer of £2,144,267.94 from the winding up of a parent trust, with £2,100,642.00 sent to investment managers for reinvestment. The trustees report that budgeted income and expenditure are sufficient for the charity to continue as a going concern.

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.

• 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
• Serious incident reporting 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.

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 30/09/2025 (received 31/07/2026, 1 day after the 30/07/2026 due date); year ending 30/09/2023 (received 01/08/2024, 2 days after the 30/07/2024 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Sue Joneschair
• IAN BAKEWELL
• Margaret Anne Swinson · trustee of 3 other charities
• NICHOLAS BASSON · trustee of 2 other charities
• PATRICIA LESLEY HEYES
• Professor Edward Adams
• Revd Canon Myles Davies
• Stephen Christopher Mannings
• Thomas Stafford Roberts

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

Operates in: Knowsley · Liverpool City · Sefton · St Helens · Wirral

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 LIVERPOOL CATHEDRAL.

• THE FRIENDS OF LIVERPOOL CATHEDRAL income £34k
• LIVERPOOL CATHEDRAL COMMITTEE income £67k
• NELSON COMMUNITY TRUST income £368k
• THE PHILIPSON DITCHLING TRUST income £39k
• THE FIELDROSE CHARITABLE TRUST income £325k
• NORWICH CATHEDRAL TRUST income £43k

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