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All 41 Church of England cathedrals have become registered charities, co-regulated by the Charity Commission and Church Commissioners.
Civil Society writes:
Cathedrals were previously excepted from registering with the Commission but the Cathedrals’ Working Group recommended in June 2018 that they should register with the charity regulator. At an event earlier this month to mark their registration, Commission chief executive David Holdsworth said… : ‘The Commission does not regulate your spiritual mission, or matters of faith or religious doctrine. Ecclesiastical matters are your preserve. As the secular regulator under charity law, we will carefully co-regulate cathedrals with the Church Commissioners, who have regulatory functions under ecclesiastical law.’
Cathedrals welcome new status
David Monteith, chair of the College of Deans, said: ‘We as deans and cathedral communities welcome the opportunities created by our registration as charities…’
