Registered charity · Somerset

The Friends of Wells Cathedral

The Friends of Wells Cathedral is a registered charity (number 208797) based in Somerset, governed by 12 trustees and chaired by Arnold Wills since 2022. Latest income £818k (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 18th October 2026.

12 trustees
Income £818k (2025)

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About

What it does: Religious Activities, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where: Somerset
Website: wellsfriends.org (opens in a new tab)
Registered: 1962

Income and spending

YearIncomeSpending
2025£818k£2.3m
2024£547k£48k
2023£158k£48k

Earlier years

2022£389k£36k
2021£278k£14k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

TO SEEK TO CO-OPERATE WITH THE CHAPTER OF THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST ANDREW IN WELLS AND TO FURTHER THE MISSION AND CHRISTIAN PURPOSE AND TO MAINTAIN THE WORSHIP OF THE CATHEDRAL (FOR FURTHER DETAILS SEE CLAUSE 2 OF THE CONSTITUTION)

Grants received

1 grant · £1,000 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

Quartet Community Foundation · £1,000

Most recent

Quartet Community Foundation £1,0002022-04-04

Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

12 trustees on the board

2.7y median 3y

average tenure

longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

Maureen Frances Anne Boylan since 2018

6.2y

average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (6)

company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Environment/conservation/heritage 12Religious Activities 12Education/training 3Recreation 1The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Education 4Arts and leisure 3Business services 2

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.

2021

2022

2023

2024

2025

incomespending£818k latest income

ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

0.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 120.0 in 2021

EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details

Registered charity number: 208797
Status: Registered
Governing document: CONSTITUTION ADOPTED ON THE 15TH JULY 1967 AS AMENDED ON 2ND JULY 1983, 4TH JULY 1987, 9TH JULY 1988 AND 6TH MAY 2006
Contact on the register: 01749678830 · info@wellsfriends.org
Edition: Register edition compiled 18th October 2026
Labels: Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.

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