Canterbury Cathedral Trust Fund

Analysis

Canterbury Cathedral Trust Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Canterbury. It was registered in December 2005, 21 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, religious activities, arts/culture/heritage/science and environment/conservation/heritage, which this site groups under religion. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 05588837). It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Canterbury Cathedral Trust Fund reported income of £430k and spending of £710k, spending 165% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £1.2m to £430k (-64%), an average of -23% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income dropped by 28%. Over the whole period it spent 152% of the income it received.

Among 20,496 England and Wales charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, Canterbury Cathedral Trust Fund sits at the 91st percentile: it is larger than about 91% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 89th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St Christopher's Springfield (£430k), The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St John the Evangelist, Ranmoor, Sheffield (£430k) and The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St Pauls, Weston Super Mare (£429k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.