Finance Score: -3
Governance Score: -1
Support Score: 0
  • Spending falling: -1
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
  • Only 4 Trustees: -1
  • No supporters identified
Overall GiG Score: -4 ?

GARFIELD WESTON TRUST FOR WESTMINSTER ABBEY 

THE RESTORATION, PRESERVATION, MAINTENANCE AND IMPROVEMENT OF WESTMINSTER ABBEY AND ITS PRECINCTS
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Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity only provides its support via other charities
  • There are only 4 trustees

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • Spending has fallen significantly over the last 5 years relative to the previous period
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
05/04/23£485£446£39n/an/an/an/an/a0
05/04/22£444£68£376n/an/an/an/an/a0
05/04/21£31£2,143£-2,113n/an/an/an/an/a0
05/04/20£582£3,131£-2,549£0£21,113£2,3799.100
05/04/19£639£2,431£-1,792£0£31,774£4,95024.400
05/04/18£604£2,088£-1,483£0£33,735£6,70638.600
05/04/17£590£1,855£-1,265£0£35,530£8,25453.400
05/04/16£579£834£-255£0£45,806£9,190132.300
05/04/15£455£0£455£0£0£0NAN00
05/04/14£442£0£442£0£0£0NAN00
05/04/13£397£0£397£0£0£0n/a00
05/04/12£568£0£568£0£17,089£916366411.200
05/04/11£347£825£-478£0£0£0n/a00
05/04/10£303£836£-533£0£0£0n/a00
05/04/09£360£143£217£0£0£0n/a00
05/04/08£307£2£305£0£0£0n/a00
05/04/07*£292£220£72£0£0£0n/a00
05/04/06£369£361£9£0£0£0n/a00
05/04/05£278£677£-400£0£0£0n/a00
05/04/04*£282£617£-334£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 49 years

02072225152

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
?
Listed activities
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
GiG Classification
  • Museums, parks, historical sites
How it operates
  • Makes Grants to Organisations
Where it operates
  • City Of Westminster,
Who it helps
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies

Who's supporting them? ?

We have no records of donations from grant makers.

How is it governed?

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 11/02/1975, number: 268963
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • 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
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR07: 32 days late, AR04: 22 days late,
Main office

THE CHAPTER OFFICE
20 DEANS YARD
LONDON
SW1P 3PA

Objectives

TO APPLY ANY PART OF PARTS OF THE INCOME TO THE WESTMINSTER ABBEY TRUST IN PARTICULAR FOR THE RESTORATION PRESERVATION MAINTENANCE AND IMPROVEMENT OF WESTMINSTER ABBEY THE CLOISTERS THE FABRIC AND THE INTERIOR DECORATION THEREOF AND THE ORNAMENTS FURNISHINGS CARVINGS FIXTURES AND FITTINGS THEREOF.

Defined Area of Benefit:

WESTMINSTER ABBEY

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
CharityBase
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