The Dean and Chapter of Brecon Cathedral

Advance the Christian religion of the Church in Wales for the public benefit. Promote the mission of the Church in Wales in and through the Cathedral by promoting the statement of faith.Resource the Cathedral for future ministry and mission.Achieve and develop lay and ordained vocations that enable and equip ministers and laity in mission, education and evangelism.

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

In Wales

• Powys

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 December 2025, it had income of £473,585 and spent £301,375.

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 24%, from £382,250 in the year to 31 December 2021 to £473,585 in the year to 31 December 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 64% of its income in the year to 31 December 2025. It spent more than its income in 3 of the 5 years shown.

Largest funder

Representative Body of the Church in Wales gave £324,737 in the year to 31 December 2025, 69% 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 2025, the charity named 8 funders who gave £434,250 between them. £75,612 of that came from public bodies.

These figures were read from the accounts the charity filed with the Charity Commission by Claude, an AI model, in OpenEconomy's accounts reader. AI can misread a table, so check the accounts on the register before relying on a figure.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 9 grants to this charity since 2021, worth at least £2,406,660.

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.

5 trustees run the charity.

• Gloria Jones PowellAppointed 8 February 2022
• Nigel David ClubbAppointed 8 February 2022
• Rev Jonathan DaviesAppointed 9 September 2015
• Rev Steven Ellsworth GriffithAppointed 19 July 2022
• Richard John VergeAppointed 8 February 2022

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

1160017

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

19 January 2015

Governing document

CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 15/04/2014 as amended on 27 May 2020 as amended on 22 Sep 2021

Website

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

Council area of its contact address

Powys

• 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 2 November 2026.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 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

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