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Liverpool Roman Catholic Archdiocesan Trust

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £39m (2024)

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
Wigan, Knowsley, Liverpool City, Sefton and more
Website
www.liverpoolcatholic.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1965

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£39m£45m
  • 2023£39m£51m
  • 2022£39m£42m
Earlier years
  • 2021£35m£36m
  • 2020£20m£28m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Income source mix, 2024: Government grants 31%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIGION IN THE DIOCESE IN SUCH WAYS BEING CHARITABLE AS THE ARCHBISHOP SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DIRECT AND FOR THE SERVICE AND SUPPORT WHETHER IN THE DIOCESE OR OUTSIDE THE DIOCESE IN SUCH WAYS AS AFORESAID OF ANY LAWFUL CHARITABLE PURPOSES WHETHER EDUCATIONAL OR OTHERWISE PROMOTED OR SUPPORTED BY THE CHURCH.

Grants received

16 grants · £19,697,133 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 · £17,260,733 (5 grants)
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £1,422,800 (7 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £920,600 (3 grants)
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £93,000

Most recent

  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £477,6002020-10-14
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £221,5002020-10-14
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £221,5002020-10-14
  • Department for Education £14,744,0902020-04-01
  • Department for Education £1,837,6052020-04-01
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.

4.7y median 6y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

4.5y
average years in governance
1
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 12Education/training 6The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 5General Charitable Purposes 2Arts/culture/heritage/science 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.

Business services 3Education 3Other services 2

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£38.7m 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.

17.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 31.3 in 2020

480 from 621 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
232709
Status
Registered
Governing document
TRUST DEED DATED 18 MAR 1963AS AMENDED BY DEED DATED 29 JUN 1968AS AMENDED BY SCHEME DATED 13 SEP 1995
Contact on the register
01515221020 · webmaster@rcaol.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.

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