The Dean and Chapter of St Davids Cathedral

Regular worship presented to the highest standards including a sequence of special services from Advent to Candlemass, outreach through our education and pilgrimage centre to schools and to visitors and pilgrims and a Ministry of Welcome to visitors to the Cathedral and the promotion of art and music through exhibitions and concerts.

In the charity's own words, from the register.

In Wales

• Pembrokeshire

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 December 2025, it had income of £1,499,488 and spent £1,572,376.

Figures as the charity reported them to the Charity Commission. Staff and volunteer numbers are only asked of charities with income over £10,000. A year with no row was not reported.

Separate measures from the charity's own returns and accounts, each with its year. Read them together: no single measure says how well a charity is run.

Income over time

Up 90%, from £787,675 in the year to 31 December 2021 to £1,499,488 in the year to 31 December 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 105% of its income in the year to 31 December 2025. It spent more than its income in 4 of the 5 years shown.

Largest funder

Diocesan Board of Finance gave £178,792 in the year to 31 December 2024, 14% of that year's income.Read by AI from the charity's accounts.

From the annual returns the charity filed with the Charity Commission. The largest funder comes from its accounts, read by AI.

Government grants in the year ending 31 December 2025: Not reported. Government contracts: Not reported.

From the charity's annual return to the Charity Commission, which asks every charity with income over £10,000 how much came from government grants and contracts. It does not say which part of government. These totals are separate from the named funders read from its accounts and the grants published on 360Giving, and are not added to them.

In its accounts for the year ending 31 December 2024, the charity named 6 funders who gave £305,946 between them. £0 of that came from public bodies.

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Funders that publish to 360Giving list 5 grants to this charity since 2023, worth at least £302,709.

Only funders that publish their grants to 360Giving are included, and many do not. These are amounts funders awarded, which can differ from what the charity received in a given year, so they are shown apart from the accounts figures above.

Senedd and Welsh Government records that name this charity, gathered by OpenSenedd. Newest first.

• 11 September 2024

  Named in a written question from Paul Davies

  Addressed to the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Energy and Planning.

  …sh Government provided support to many religious buildings through the Cultural Recovery Fund including a grant of £150,000 to the Dean & Chapter of St Davids Cathedral in 2021-22.

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19 trustees run the charity.

• The Very Revd PAUL ROBERT MACKNESSChairAppointed 1 December 2015
• Canon Chancellor Dewi James Llewelyn RobertsAppointed 31 July 2014
• Canon John Richard CecilAppointed 10 May 2022
• Canon Mark Stephen AnsellAppointed 27 October 2022
• Canon Pastor Sheridan Angharad JamesAppointed 12 February 2023
• Rev Canon JOHN PRYCE LEWISAppointed 30 July 2015
• Rev Canon LEIGH LAURENCE RICHARDSON Sub DeanAppointed 1 December 2015
• Rev Canon Marianne Lily-MAy OsborneAppointed 3 October 2019
• Rev Canon MARY MORGAN RHIANNON JOHNSONAppointed 1 December 2015
• Rev Canon Mones Anton FarahAppointed 26 April 2018
• Rev Canon Susannah BaleAppointed 26 April 2018
• Revd Canon Andrew Graham LoatAppointed 3 October 2019
• Revd Canon Gareth McEwan ReidAppointed 20 June 2024
• Revd Canon John Marcus Zipperlen MSc MThAppointed 20 June 2024
• Revd Canon Julian William Smith BSc BAAppointed 20 June 2024
• Revd Canon MICHAEL HUW ROWLANDSAppointed 26 April 2018
• The Reverend Canon S E JonesAppointed 31 July 2014
• The Venerable Matthew Anthony Robert HillAppointed 3 October 2019
• The Venerable Rachel Hannah Eileen DaviesAppointed 31 July 2014

Trustees are responsible in law for the charity. Names are as they appear on the public register.

Of the last 5 annual returns that were due, 5 arrived by the deadline.

Charities with income over £10,000 send an annual return within 10 months of their year end, and those over £25,000 also send their accounts. Smaller charities only update their income and spending on the register. The dates are when the Commission received each document.

Charity number

1159118

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

7 November 2014

Governing document

CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 31/07/2014

Website

www.stdavidscathedral.org.ukAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Pembrokeshire

• Register details, income, spending, trustees and filing dates: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Funding from accounts: the charity's filed accounts, read by OpenEconomy's AI accounts reader on 1 November 2026.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• In the Senedd and Welsh Government: records gathered by OpenSenedd and matched to the charity by OpenEconomy on 5 November 2026.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• Its accounts and annual returns on the register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

• OpenSenedd: Senedd records that name this charity
• OpenCouncil: Pembrokeshire Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Pembrokeshire's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Ceredigion Penfro