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Registered charity · Crawley

Worth Abbey

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £27m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

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

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About

What it does
Education/training, Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Overseas Aid/famine Relief and 2 more
Where
West Sussex, Peru, Brighton And Hove
Website
www.worthabbey.net (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Worth Abbey
Registered
2002

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£27m£27m
  • 2024£23m£23m
  • 2023£22m£22m
Earlier years
  • 2022£19m£18m
  • 2021£16m£16m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(1)THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIGION;(2)THE RELIEF OF THE INFIRM, AGED OR POOR AND IN PARTICULAR, BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING, THE RELIEF OF AGED PRIESTS AND CLERICS, OTHER PERSONS PROFESSING THE CATHOLIC RELIGION OR WHO ARE RELATED TO PRIESTS OR CLERICS OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH;(3)THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND IN PARTICULAR, BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING, THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF PRIESTS AND PERSONS DESIROUS OF BECOMING PRIESTS OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH; AND(4)SUCH OTHER PURPOSES THAT ARE CHARITABLE IN ENGLISH LAW WHETHER OR NOT DIRECTLY CONNECTED WITH THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH.

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.

5.4y median 3y
average tenure
14y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

16.3y
average years in governance
8
company-linked trustees

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

Education/training 9Disability 8The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 8General Charitable Purposes 1Religious Activities 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Other services 12Education 11Business services 8

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.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£27.1m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
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.

0.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 16.0 in 2021

327 from 270 in 2021
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
1093913
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ON 2 JULY. as amended on 25 May 2021 as amended on 29 Aug 2023
Companies House
Company number 04475556 · Active
Contact on the register
01342710310 · TheMonastery@worthabbey.net
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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