## **Charity Commission** 

## Charity Commission Annual Return 2024 

## **WELLS CATHEDRAL PRESERVATION TRUST** 

Charity registration number: 271596 

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## **Financial period** 

## **Financial period start date** 

01/04/2023 

## **Financial period end date** 

31/03/2024 

## **Income and spending** 

## **Income £** 

£25,907 

## **Spending £** 

£18,039 

**Number of contracts from government** 



**How many contracts (other than grant agreements) did your charity receive from central government or a local authority during the financial period for this return?** 

0 

## **Number of grants from government** 

**How many grants did your charity receive from central government or a local authority during the financial period for this return?** 

0 

## **Income breakdown** 

## **Donations and legacies (excluding Endowments Received)** 

£297 

## **Charitable activities** 

£0 

## **Other trading activities** 

£0 

## **Investments** 

£25,597 

## **Other** 

£13 

## **Grantmaking** 

## **Is grant making the main way your charity carries out its purposes?** 

Yes 

**Recipients of grants** 



## **Please round all figures to the nearest pound (do not enter decimal points or commas).Individuals** 

£0 

## **Other charities** 

£16,382 

## **Other organisations that are not charities** 

£0 

## **Grant recipients related parties** 

## **Are any of the grant recipients related parties to the charity?** 

No 

## **Trustee payments** 

**Excluding out of pocket expenses, for what were any of the trustees paid during the financial period for this return?** 

⊠ e. None of the trustees have been paid 

**Did any of the trustees resign and take up employment with your charity in the financial period of this return?** 

No 

## **Income from outside the UK** 

**Did your charity receive income from outside of the United Kingdom in the financial period of this return?** 

No 

**Delivering activities outside the United Kingdom** 



**Did your charity deliver charitable activities outside of the United Kingdom in the financial period of this return?** 

No 

## **Spending outside England & Wales** 

**Did your charity spend funds outside of the United Kingdom in the financial period of this return?** 

No 

## **Trading subsidiaries** 

## **Does the charity have any trading subsidiaries?** 

No 

## **Charity contact details correct** 

## **Is the contact address displayed from the Register of Charities, correct?** 

Yes 

## **Charity headquarters details correct** 

**Is this the same address that you use as your charity's administrative headquarters?** 

Yes 

## **Charity contact address** 

9 ST. THOMAS STREET 

WELLS 

BA5 2UU 



## **Charity Headquarters address** 

9 ST. THOMAS STREET 

WELLS 

BA5 2UU 

## **Property** 

**Were any of your charity's properties held by holding or custodian trustees on behalf of your charity (excluding the Official Custodian) during the financial period for this return?** No 

## **Membership type** 

**Is your charity part of a wider group structure with a parent body and subsidiary bodies?** 

no, the charity is not part of a wider group structure 

## **Employment contract types** 

**People were permanently employed by your charity** 

0 

## **People were on fixed-terms contracts with your charity** 

0 

## **Self-employed people were working for your charity** 

0 

**Governance policies** 

**Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures** 



Yes 

## **Safeguarding policy and procedures** 

Not applicable 

## **Financial reserves policy and procedures** 

Not applicable 

## **Complaints policy and procedures** 

Not applicable 

## **Serious incident reporting policy and procedures** 

Not applicable 

## **Internal risk management policy and procedures** 

Not applicable 

## **Trustee expenses policy and procedures** 

Yes 

## **Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures** 

Yes 

## **Investing charity funds policy and procedures** 

No 

## **Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures** 

Not applicable 

## **Bullying and harassment policy and procedures** 

Not applicable 

## **Social media policy and procedures** 

Not applicable 

## **Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures** 

Not applicable 

**Serious Incidents** 



**Has your charity reported all Serious Incidents (including any historical incidents) that the charity became aware of during the financial period of this return?** 

There were no incidents to report 

## **External risk and impact** 

## **Donations,** 

Unknown/No Change/Not Applicable 

## **Other income - grants** 

Unknown/No Change/Not Applicable 

## **Other income - contracts** 

Unknown/No Change/Not Applicable 

## **Other income - investment** 

Unknown/No Change/Not Applicable 

## **Expenditure on charitable activities** 

Unknown/No Change/Not Applicable 

## **Expenditure on overheads** 

Unknown/No Change/Not Applicable 

## **Number of volunteers** 

Unknown/No Change/Not Applicable 

## **Number of employees** 

Unknown/No Change/Not Applicable 

## **Number of trustees** 

Unknown/No Change/Not Applicable 

## **Fundraising activities** 

Unknown/No Change/Not Applicable 

## **Capacity to deliver services** 

Unknown/No Change/Not Applicable 

**Total service demand** 



Unknown/No Change/Not Applicable 

## **Volunteers** 

**Excluding trustees, provide an estimate of the number of volunteers who carried out charitable activities on behalf of your charity in the United Kingdom during the financial period of this return?** 

2 

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## **Declaration** 

**Your role at the charity (select one):** ⊠ Other BRIAN PHILIP **Given names** ROBERTS-WRAY **Family name** 01749672649 **Telephone number Email** brian.robertswray@icloud.com 15/08/2024 **Date submitted** 

**It is a criminal offence under section 60 of the Charities Act 2011 for anyone to knowingly or recklessly provide false or misleading information to the commission; this includes suppressing, concealing or destroying documents.** 




**Charity Name Wells Cathedral Preservation Trust** 

**No (if any)** 

## **Receipts and payments accounts** 

**CC16a** 

|**For the period**<br>**from**|Period start date<br>**1st April 2023**|**To**|Period end date<br>**31st March 2024**|
|---|---|---|---|



## **Section A Receipts and payments** 

||**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**||**Restricted**<br>**funds**||**Endowment**<br>**funds**||**Total funds**||**Last year**||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**to the nearest      £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||
|**A1 Receipts**|||||||||||
|**Quilter Dividends**|**1,942**||**-**||**-**||**1,942**||**14,099**||
|**Sarasin Dividends**|**23,093**||**-**||**-**||**23,093**||||
|**Sarasin Interest**|**538**||**-**||**-**||**538**||||
|**From Deposit A/c CCLA**|**24**||**-**||**-**||**24**||**8**||
|**Pay Pal Giving Fund**|**13**||**-**||**-**||**13**||**35**||
|**Donation Box**|**297**||**-**||**-**||**297**||**359**||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|**Sub total**_(Gross income for AR)_|**25,907**<br>||**-**||**-**||**25,907**||**14,501**||



|**Sub total**_(Gross income for AR)_|<br>|**25,907**||**-**||**-**||**25,907**||**14,501**||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**||||||||||||
|**(see table).**||||||||||||
|**Sale of Investments**||**788,175**||**-**||**-**||**788,175**||**101,284**||
|||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|**Sub total**||**788,175**||**-**||**-**||**788,175**||**101,284**||
|||||||||||||
|**Total receipts **||**814,081**||**-**||**-**||**814,081**||**115,785**||
|**A3 Payments**||||||||||||
|**Quilter Investment Management**||**1,619**||**-**||**-**||**1,619**||**5,042**||
|**Bank Charges**||**37**||**-**||**-**||**37**||**-**||
|**Cathedral - Laser Scan**||**16,382**||**-**||**-**||**16,382**||**-**||
|||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|**Sub total **||**18,038**||**-**||**-**||**18,038**||**5,042**||





|**A4 Asset and investment**||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**purchases, (see table)**||||||||||||
|**Purchase of Investments**||**823,458**||**-**||**-**||**823,458**||**157,475**||
|||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||||
|**Sub total **||**823,458**||**-**||**-**||**823,458**||**-**||
|||||||||||||
|**Total payments **||**841,496**||**-**||**-**||**841,496**||**162,517**||
|||||||||||||
|**Net of receipts/(payments) -**||**27,415**||**-**||**-**||**-                27,415**||**-              46,732**||
|**A5 Transfers between funds**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|**A6 Cash funds last year end**||**93,822**||**-**||**-**||**93,822**||**140,554**||
|**Cash funds this year end **||**66,407**||**-**||**-**||**66,407**||**93,822**||



## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** 

|**Details**<br>**Bank Current Account**<br>**Short Term Deposit**<br>**Investment Capital Account - Sarasin**<br>**Details**<br>**Total cash funds**<br>(agree balances with receipts and payments<br>account(s))|**to nearest £**<br>**65,896**<br>**502**<br>**9**<br>**66,407**<br>OK<br>**to nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**<br>**Unrestricted**<br>**funds**|**to nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>OK<br>**to nearest £**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**Restricted**<br>**funds**<br>**Restricted**<br>**funds**|**to nearest £**<br>**Endowment**<br>**funds**|
|---|---|---|---|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||OK|
||||**to nearest £**<br>**Endowment**<br>**funds**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|
||**-**|**-**|**-**|





|**Details**||**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**<br>**(optional)**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Sarasin Investment Management**||||**-**||**890,292**|
|||||**-**||**-**|
|||||**-**||**-**|
|||||**-**||**-**|
|||||**-**||**-**|



||**Details**|**Details**|**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs**|**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs**|**Cost (optional)**|**Cost (optional)**|**Current value**<br>**(optional)**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**B3 Investment assets**<br>**B5 Liabilities**<br>**B4 Assets retained for the**<br>**charity’s own use**|**Sarasin Investment Management**||||**-**||**890,292**|
||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**|
||||||**-**||**-**|
||**Details**<br>**Details**||**Fund to which**<br>**asset belongs**<br>**Fund to which**<br>**liability relates**||**Cost (optional)**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**-**<br>**Amount due**<br>**(optional)**||**Current value**<br>**(optional)**|
||||||||**-**|
||||||||**-**|
||||||||**-**|
||||||||**-**|
||||||||**-**|
||||||||**-**|
||||||||**-**|
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||||||||**When due**<br>**(optional)**|
||||||**-**|||
||||||**-**|||
||||||**-**|||
||||||**-**|||
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Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees 

|Signature|Print|Name|Date of<br>approval|
|---|---|---|---|





CHARITY COMMISSION
FOR ENGLAND AND WALES
Independent examiner's
report on the accounts
Section A
Independent Examinerfs Report
Report lo the trustèe81
mombar8 of
Wells Cathedral Preservation Trust
On accounts for the year
endod
31* March 2024
Charlty no
(If any)
271596
S•t out on page8
I report lo Ihe Iruslee5 on my examlnatlon of the accounts of the above
charity I'the Trust") for the year ended 3110312024.
Responslbllitles and As the charity trustees of the Trust. you are responsible for the preparation
basis of report of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act
2011 {'Ihe Act.).
I report in re8peGt of my examination of the Tru$t'8 aGGount5 carried out
under section 145 of the 2011 Ad and in carying out my oxaminalion, I
have followed the applicable Directions given by the Chanty Commission
under section 14515)Ibl of the Act.
I have completed my examination. l ¢onfimi that no material matters have
ome to my attention (other than that dis¢losed below ') in connection with
the examination which gives me Gause lo ￿lIeVe that in, any maleiial
resp8Ct.'
accounting records were nol kept in accordance with section 130 of
the Act or
the accounls do nol accord with the accounting records
I have no concems and have come across no other matters in connection
wrth the examination lo which attention should ￿ drawn in order lo enable
proper understanding of the accounts to bo r•a¢hod.
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delete the words in the brackels ilthey do not 8pply.
Independent
•xaminerf8 ststsment
8lgned:
Dats:
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Nam¢'.
Paul Oix BS¢{Honsl ACA FCCA
Relevant prof•88ional
qualificallon(81 or body
(if anyl..
ICAEWIACCA
Addrè••:
Chalmers HB
20 Chambenain Street, Wells, Somersel. BA5 2PF
IER
October 2018