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Registered charity (CIO) · London

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Southwark

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £34m (2024)
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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
Religious Activities
Where
Throughout London, Kent, Medway
Website
www.rcaos.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2017

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£34m£34m
  • 2023£30m£31m
  • 2022£36m£27m
Earlier years
  • 2021£26m£26m
  • 2020£24m£26m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Income source mix, 2020: Government grants 5%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO ESTABLISH, MAINTAIN OR ADVANCE THE ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIGION IN THE DIOCESE BY ANY ONE OR MORE OF THE CHARITABLE OBJECTS PROMOTED OR SERVED BY THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH WITHIN THE DIOCESE.

Grants received

14 grants · £39,556,196 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 Education · £38,116,296 (5 grants)
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £1,384,300 (6 grants)
  • SHAREGIFT · £55,000
  • The Grocers' Charity · £600 (2 grants)

Most recent

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 5.5y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

10.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (4)

Portfolio (4)

4
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 8Education/training 2Arts/culture/heritage/science 1Economic/community Development/employment 1Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity 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.

Education 6Other services 5Health and social care 4

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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£33.8m latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

1.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 22.7 in 2020

348 from 406 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
1173050
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - ASSOCIATION Registered 16 May 2017 as amended on 28 Sep 2023 as amended on 25 Sept 2024
Contact on the register
02079602521 · communications@rcaos.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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