St Edmundsbury Cathedral Trust

Analysis

St Edmundsbury Cathedral Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Bury St. Edmunds. It was registered in April 2014, 12 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, religious activities and arts/culture/heritage/science, which this site groups under religion. Legally it is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, St Edmundsbury Cathedral Trust reported income of £270k and spending of £42k, leaving 84% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from January 2022 to December 2025, income grew from £24k to £270k (+1012%), an average of +83% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2025, when income rose by 653%. Over the whole period it spent 33% of the income it received.

Among 20,496 England and Wales charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, St Edmundsbury Cathedral Trust sits at the 85th percentile: it is larger than about 85% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 84th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Bretton Baptist Church (£270k), The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St Wilfrid's Standish (£270k) and The Association of English Cathedrals (£270k).