2023 Organ Restoration Fund £300
2023 Three John Hutton angel cartoons (purchase) £2,568
2022 Organ Restoration Fund £20,000
2021 Two Cathedral entrance flagpoles £3,700
2021 Cathedral Rebuild Project grant towards “Ghosts In The Ruins”, the Broken Angel Project, the Jacob Epstein Exhibition. (City of Culture 2021) £10,000
2020 Music Commission for Choral Evensong - Jonathan Rathbone £5,000
2020 Coventry Cathedral extension project £45,000
2019 Westpoint TV: digitisation of film of Cathedral construction in 50's+60's £660
2018 Underwrite of performance of Britten War Requiem up to £20,000 £1218
2018 Coventry Cathedral Intern sponsorship £8000
2018 Crib Lighting £770
2017 Grant to Music Dept - Amici funding £6650
2017 Grant to Music Dept £1018
2017 Payment for Crib Barrier £778
2017 Sophie O'Keefe - floral arrangement £60
2017 Coventry Cathedral Intern sponsorship £7000
2017 Printing of Coventry Crib leaflets £359
2017 Lighting equipment for Crib £18
2016 Printing of Amici Fliers £22
2016 Grant to Music Dept £2000
2016 Donation to St Michael's Singers £187
2016 Floral display in Nave £60
2016 Design of leaflets about Crib £385
2016 Donation to Coventry Cathedral Choir Parents Assn £70
2016 Coventry Cathedral Intern sponsorship £2000
2015 Christmas Trees £305
2015 Replacement of rope rail on Spiral Staircase £138
2015 Support for the Cathedral Choir and Music £20,000
2014 Support for the Cathedral Choir and Music £20,000
2014 Replacement tea/coffee making machines and catering trolleys £1253
2014 Replacement of the Chiming Mechanism on the Cathedral Tower Clock £2900
2014 Cathedral Christmas Trees £305
2013 Contribution to the transportation costs of the Homeless Sculpture £500
2013 Rewiring of the Haigh Chapel and Cappers Room £3586
2013 Choral Scholarship for Lay Clerk £900
2012 Renewal of the leather seating of the organ console £470
2012 Support for the Golden Jubilee Flower Festival displays £1000
2012 New curtains and rails for the Chapter House and Lecture Hall £4280
2012 Welcome desk, screen, information boards, digital display and refurbishment of existing furniture £8496
2011 Equipment for use by the Maintenance Team including a wheelbarrow, scaffold tower, angle grinder, and pressure washer £1203
2011 Completion of the work to replace the leather seating £500
2011 Books of Common Prayer for the Morning and Evening Offices £133
2011 Candle Holders for use on the Choir Stalls for special occasions £160
2011 Projector, case and stand for use in the Nave £1919
2011 Nave Christmas tree and installation £380
2011 Restoration work to the Cathedral Organ £3000
2010 Notice Board on the Reconciliation Ministry placed in the ruins £863
2010 Litany of Reconciliation Leaflets (7,000) for use by Visitors £637
2010 Support for the War Requiem performance by St Michael’s Singers, to commemorate the 70th Anniversary of the bombing of the cathedral £3300
2010 Cathedral Notice board in St Michael’s Avenue £539
2009 Christmas tree and lights £500
2009 replacement sheet music for Cathedral choirs £500
2009 Haigh Chapel oak door repair £1200
2009 refurbishment of leather kneelers and cushions £1200
2008 Sponsorship of Cathedral Christmas tree lights £250
2008 A Tolling Bell for Coventry Cathedral £5500
2008 New Cathedral Archive Centre £3500
2007 Benches for Education Department school visits to Cathedral £731
2007 Plastic containers for packed lunches for Education Department school visits £67
2006 Towards programme of Monday organ recitals £250
2005 Cathedral Easter Brass consort £500
2005 Cathedral Sunday School £51
2005 Millennium Screen Donation £1000
2005 Donation to support Cathedral music £1300
2005 Towards ICR Peace prize £4000
2005 Cathedral Archive volunteers £400
2004 Painting £400
2004 Cathedral Easter Brass consort £500
2004 St Michael's Singers for performance of Messiah £3000
2004 Towards High Altar Cross Appeal £1000
2004 Burnishing Machine (for High Altar Cross) £750
2004 Sundry gifts £110
2003 Display Board £451
2001 Towards the Fire Appeal £1000
2000 Chairs for the secretaries in Pelham Lee House £2000
2000 New China for Stewards Room £300
2000 Garden Fund £100
1999 Computer software (Sibelius) for music department £3000
1999 Four mobile radios and battery units £1292
1999 Millennium Chapel Appeal £1000
1998 Two mobile radios £759
1998 Proceeds of 'Death Day' to congregation computer fund £139
1998 Materials for servers' tunicles
1997 Four flower stands £130
1996 Further contribution to Needleworkers £1200
1995 Updating of Bishops' Book £96
1994 Radio transmitters £983
1994 Needleworkers for renovation of hassocks £1000
1993 The Diocesan map £1468
1992 Memorial Notice Board £353
1991 Support for choir visit to Rome £1000
1991 Ruth Waugh memorial Boards £353
1991 Choir Boys Travel Fund £1000
1990 Provost's Appeal £1000
1988 Music commission £400
1987 Support for Cathedral Appeal £4000
1986 Re-enamelling of hallowing Places plaques £138
1986 Batteries for PA system £24
1984 Robes for choir and vergers £2000
1984 Network magazine underwritten £500
1984 Grant to choirboys for USA tour £400
1982 Crockery for Stewards Room £50
1982 Materials for kneelers for altar rails £300
1982 'Network' magazine underwritten £200
1981 Bishop's Book £300
1981 Loan, became gift towards reconstruction of part of Kennedy House £3000
1980 Donation to provost’s Thanksgiving Fund following St Michael's Needleworkers exhibition of fabric and thread in the service of the church £500
1977 Renovations to Wyley Chapel £400
1977 Help for students from Poland and USA £250
1977 Loan to cathedral commuted to gift £2700
1976 Organised the Spire Appeal £1000
1976 Grant towards production of Pinter Plays to drama department £30
1975 Donation to set in motion Save our Spire Appeal £200
1974 Organised exhibition of Church Plate at Herbert Art Gallery
1974 Loan of £2000 towards Gift Shop repaid
1974 Further loan for extending Book Shop Store £1000
1974 Financial support to help men and women to visit for study £200
1973 Commissioned anthem 'He is the Way' from Alan Ridout to be sung by the Choir on visit to Lubeck £90
1973 Donation towards music for 'Fanfare to Europe' £50
1973 Envelope addressing machine and supplies £254
1972 Transport expenses for visits by the Choir to parish churches in the diocese £10
1972 24 rose bushes 'Coventry Cathedral' for one bay Priory Street side of Cathedral
1971 Radio controlled auditory equipment £1000
1971 Antique Fair - Queen Anne Bureau
1971 Capital Loan for extending the Book Shop £2000
1971 Shrubs for Priory Row gardens £50
1970 Sponsored a series of 'open gardens' to raise money for the 10-year plan
1970 Donation to the Cathedral's Antique Fair of Regency card table and George III silver wine funnel
1969 Portable platform for use in the Nave £360
1969 Materials for redecorating the International Centre and upholstering of wall panels and furniture and to improve the hea £350
1969 Furnished the 'drawing room' of Pelham lee House as Conference Room
1969 Exhibition on the Cathedral's Ministry £150
1966 Lady Chapel Screen £3000
1965 Music commissioned from Sir William Walton £150
1965 Music commissioned from Elizabeth Lutyens £78
1960 Music commissioned from Graham Whetton £25
1956 New Oak tablets for hallowing Places £80
1956 Cope first used at the Laying of the Foundation Stone £125
1951 Refurnishing Wyley Chapel £80
1950 Towards Memorial to Col. Wyley for Crypt Chapel £50
1949 Open Air Stage in the Ruins £350
1948 Hallowing places (plaster) £13
1947 Cross of Nails Gift Card to be given free to pilgrims £20
1947 Maintenance of Chapel of the Resurrection
1943 Bishop's Throne in the Ruins £25
1942 Items (unnamed) for Cathedral use
1941 Furnishing of South Porch of Ruins as Chapel of the Resurrection £50
1941 Choristers scholarship for 3 years £60
1941 Gift of Office Book
1937 Restoration and improvements of the Sanctuary £1200
1935 Scholarships for two Cathedral choristers for two years £80
The Friends of Coventry Cathedral was founded in 1934. It is an independent Charity No. 1061176 registered in England and Wales, with an annually elected Council.
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