THE FRIENDS OF ELY CATHEDRAL CIO — grant history

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Latest income

£941k

Grants listed (FY2025)

Listed grants total

£148k

Accounts grants total

£129k

listed grants do not fully reconcile with the accounts total — list may be partialextracted from its FY2025 accounts

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

How to apply: The website does not state that the funder does NOT accept unsolicited applications. It provides general donation options such as 'Make a donation' online, leaving a gift in a will, or donating in loving memory, but does not outline a formal grant application process.

Summarised from www.elycathedral.org on 11/09/2026. Always check the funder’s site before applying.

What this funder supports

Based on the register classifications and operating areas of the grant recipients we could match to the charity register (a subset of all grantees).

Causes funded

Religious Activities (1 grantee)

Where grantees operate

Cambridgeshire (1 grantee)
Norfolk (1 grantee)

What changed: FY2022 → FY2025

Grantees that appear, disappear or move by 50%+ between the two most recent filings we have read. A grantee “dropped” may simply have received a multi-year grant earlier.

Change	Grantee	FY2022	FY2025
new	New lighting installation	—	£80k
new	Reredos Project	—	£47k
new	Archive and Library Project	—	£20k
new	Grant To Broders Group	—	£1k
new	Choristers’ prizes	—	£75
not listed	THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF THE HOLY AND UNDIVIDED TRINITY OF ELY	£300k	—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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Recipient	Year	Amount	Purpose
New lighting installation	FY2025	£80k
Reredos Project	FY2025	£47k
Archive and Library Project	FY2025	£20k
Grant To Broders Group	FY2025	£1k
Choristers’ prizes	FY2025	£75
Ely Cathedral	FY2022	£300k	New lighting installation
Ely Cathedral	FY2022	£25k	Disability access ramp outside Lady Chapel
Ely Cathedral	FY2022	£25k	Streaming equipment
Ely Cathedral	FY2022	£5k	Choristers prize
Ely Cathedral	FY2022	£561	Re-ordering St Catherine’s Chapel
Ely Cathedral	FY2022	£513	Chorister funding
Ely Cathedral	FY2022	£287	Music commission for 1350 year celebrations
Ely Cathedral	FY2022	£60	Sponsorship “The Earth” display
Ely Cathedral	FY2022	£50	Communion set

About this data

This grant list is extracted by automated reading of the grant-maker’s own accounts PDFs as filed with the Charity Commission, and cross-checked against the accounts’ stated grant totals (listed sum 147780 vs reference 129399 (14.2% diff; ref=stated)). Recipients are linked to register entries only on an exact charity-number or unambiguous exact-name match. If you represent this funder and want a correction, contact us.