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Registered charity · London

Catholic Trust for England and Wales

Catholic Trust for England and Wales is a registered charity (number 1097482) based in London, governed by 14 trustees and chaired by RT Revd Peter Brignall Bishop since 2017. Latest income £11m (2024). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 18th October 2026.

Also known as Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales (Charity Commission)

  • 14 trustees
  • Income £11m (2024)
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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
General Charitable Purposes, Religious Activities
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.catholicchurch.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Catholic Trust for England and Wales
Registered
2003

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£11m£11m
  • 2023£9.5m£10m
  • 2022£9.2m£9.7m
Earlier years
  • 2021£11m£11m
  • 2020£13m£12m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CHARITY IS THE ADVANCEMENT PRIMARILY (BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY) IN ENGLAND AND WALES OF THE THE ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIGION("THE OBJECTS")

Grants received

3 grants · £6,730,631 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £6,725,631 (2 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport · £5,000

Most recent

  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £3,578,6132021-04-01
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £3,147,0182020-04-01
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport £5,0002018-04-01
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.

4.4y median 4y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

13.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (8)

12
company-linked trustees

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

General Charitable Purposes 14Religious Activities 14Education/training 5The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 1The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 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 21Education 8Business services 4

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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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

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£10.9m latest income
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.

51.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 2.0 in 2020

117 from 106 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.
67 days
Latest accounts filed after the due dateiFiled after the due dateDate the accounts were received minus the reporting due date, latest filed cycle, Charity Commission register.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1097482
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ON 15TH APRIL 2003.
Companies House
Company number 04734592 · Active
Contact on the register
02079014808 · secretariat@cbcew.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 18th October 2026
Labels
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