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Registered charity · Ryde

ST Cecilia's Abbey Ryde Isle of Wight

  • 4 trustees
  • Income £1.1m (2024)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Religious Activities
Where
Isle Of Wight
Website
www.stceciliasabbey.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2001

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£1.1m£828k
  • 2023£1.9m£670k
  • 2022£895k£735k
Earlier years
  • 2021£801k£618k
  • 2020£696k£536k

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Charitable objects

THE PRESENT TRUSTEES DO AND THE TRUSTEES SHALL STAND POSSESSED OF THE TRUST PROPERTY AND THE INCOME OF THE TRUST PROPERTY UPON TRUST TO APPLY THE SAME EITHER AS CAPITAL OR AS INCOME FOR SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES WHICH ADVANCE THE RELIGIOUS AND OTHER CHARITABLE WORK FOR THE TIME BEING CARRIED ON BY OR UNDER THE DIRECTION OR WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE COMMUNITY ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES WITH THE APPROVAL OF THE ABBESS SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT AND IF AT ANY TIME THE COMMUNITY SHALL CEASE TO EXIST OR SHALL CEASE TO CARRY ON DIRECT OR SUPPORT ANY CHARITABLE WORK THEN FOR SUCH LAWFUL CHARITABLE PURPOSES CONNECTED WITH THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIGION ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL DECIDE AND IT IS HEREBY DECLARED THAT NO PART OF THE TRUST PROPERTY NEED BE RETAINED OR SHALL BE TREATED AS PERMANENT ENDOWMENT WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE CHARITIES ACT 1993.

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.

4 trustees on the board

2y median 3y
average tenure
3y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
1.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (4)

0
company-linked trustees

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

Religious Activities 4

Gaps to watch

  • No commercial or business experience on the board
  • Narrow spread of causes across the board
  • Mostly recent joiners - limited long-term continuity

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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£1.1m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2023 and 2024
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.

120.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months

4 from 5 in 2020
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
1088086
Status
Registered
Governing document
TRUST DEED DATED 1ST NOVEMBER 2000
Contact on the register
01983562602
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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