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Plymouth Diocesan Trust

Plymouth Diocesan Trust is a registered charity (number 213227) based in Devon, governed by 1 trustee. Latest income £7.6m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 4th October 2026.

Also known as Plymouth Diocese, Plymouth Roman Catholic Diocesan Trustees Registered, Prcdtr (Charity Commission)

  • 1 trustee
  • Income £7.6m (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

No individual trustees are listed on the register.

Also 1 organisation acting as trustee: Plymouth Roman Catholic Diocesan Trustees Registered.

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

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About

What it does
Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Religious Activities
Where
Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Plymouth City and more
Website
www.plymouth-diocese.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1964

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£7.6m£11m
  • 2024£6.3m£10m
  • 2023£7.0m£17m
Earlier years
  • 2022£7.7m£8.4m
  • 2021£5.8m£7.1m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 3%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO ADVANCE AND MAINTAIN THE ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIGION IN THE ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF PLYMOUTH.

Grants received

13 grants · £351,319 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 · £270,855 (3 grants)
  • Vivensa Foundation · £35,000 (2 grants)
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £17,589 (3 grants)
  • Garfield Weston Foundation · £10,000
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport · £8,225

Most recent

  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport £8,2252023-04-01
  • Dorset Community Foundation £8502022-12-06
  • Vivensa Foundation £5,0002022-04-07
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £74,0232022-04-01
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £78,7332022-04-01
Board analysis

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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£7.6m latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

33.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 85.0 in 2021

128 from 138 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
213227
Status
Registered
Governing document
TRUST DEED DATED 15 APRIL 1931 AS AMENDED BY SCHEMES SEALED 29 NOVEMBER 1971 AND 27 SEPTEMBER 2001 (COMMON INVESTMENT FUND GOVERNED BY A SCHEME SEALED ON 07 FEBRUARY 1977 AS AMENDED BY A FURTHER SCHEME SEALED ON 22 JULY 1991)AS AMENDED BY RESOLUTION DATED 26 OCT 2017 as amended on 08 Dec 2022
Contact on the register
01364645371 · info@prcdtr.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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