Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: 3

Support Score: 0

Strong growth: +2
Multiple Deficits: -2
No PartB

Dynamic board: +3

No supporters identified

Overall GiG Score: 3

SOCIETY OF THE FRIENDS OF CHESTER CATHEDRAL

Assisting the Dean and Chapter in furthering the religious and charitable work of Chester Cathedral by supporting the spiritual life, work and worship, and maintaining, improving, adding to and repairing the fabric, fittings, furniture, ornaments, services and music.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending

Established: 52 years

https://chestercathedral.com/about/friends-of

friendsofchestercathedral@gmail.com

01244324756

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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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
31/12/22	£76	£174	£-98	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	15
31/12/21	£18	£12	£6	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	5
31/12/20	£20	£22	£-2	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	20
31/12/19	£36	£29	£7	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	10
31/12/18	£37	£60	£-23	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/17	£67	£58	£10	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/16	£40	£36	£4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/15	£52	£38	£14	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/14	£37	£23	£14	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/13	£46	£45	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/12	£40	£85	£-45	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/11	£36	£128	£-92	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/10	£37	£31	£6	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/09	£41	£37	£4	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/08	£179	£39	£140	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/07	£32	£28	£5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/06	£31	£16	£15	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/05	£29	£24	£5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/04	£24	£33	£-9	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

Religious Activities

How it operates

Makes Grants to Organisations

Where it operates

Cheshire West & Chester,

Who it helps

The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
15 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

We have no records of donations from grant makers.

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)

Current Trustees appointed

DR DOROTHY ANNE KING Appointed: 2023

JUDITH DAWN ELIZABETH POTTER Appointed: 2023

BARRY MARSHALL INGRAM Appointed: 2011

MR BILL AMOS Appointed: 2018

NICHOLAS JOHN FRY

JOHN CECIL DAVIES Appointed: 2023, Other trusteeships: ROYAL CHESTER ROWING CLUB TRUST, ROYAL CHESTER ROWING CLUB,

KENNETH LLEWELLYN LEWIS Appointed: 2023, Other trusteeship: CHESTER U3A,

STEPHEN CROSS Appointed: 2019, Other trusteeship: ROTARY CLUB OF CHESTER TRUST FUND,

JANE JONES Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Retired, Other trusteeship: THE ST GREGORY'S FOUNDATION,

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 07/07/1972, number: 501740

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Conflicting interests
Investment
Risk management
Volunteer management

Filing Record

19 returns made; all on time

Main office

9 Abbey Square
CHESTER
CH1 2HU

Objectives

TO ASSIST AND SUPPORT THE DEAN AND CHAPTER IN FURTHERING THE RELIGIOUS AND CHARITABLE WORK OF THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF CHRIST AND THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY IN CHESTER:- (A) STRENGTHENING AND MAINTAINING THE SPIRITUAL LIFE, WORK AND WORSHIP OF THE CATHEDRAL. (B) ASSISTING AND SUPPORTING THE DEAN AND CHAPTER IN MAINTAINING, IMPROVING, ADDING TO AND REPAIRING THE FABRIC, FITTINGS, FURNITURE, ORNAMENTS, SERVICES AND MUSIC OF THE CATHEDRAL. (C) PUBLISHING LITERATURE FURTHERING THE OBJECTS OF THE SOCIETY INCLUDING AN ANNUAL REPORT (D) SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE MEANS AS THE SOCIETY MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT

Defined Area of Benefit:

CHESTER

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