Registered charity · Liverpool
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
- Rev John Francis SherringtonChair · since 2025
- Carol LawrenceTrustee · since 2020
- Colette O'BrienTrustee · since 2020
- Ian HollowsTrustee · since 2020
- Rev Canon Aidan PrescottTrustee · since 2021
- Rev Canon Michael FitzsimonsTrustee · since 2019
- Rev Gerard James CallacherTrustee · since 2023
- Rev Graeme Michael DunneTrustee · since 2024
- Rev Philip InchTrustee
- REV Provost Anthony O'BrienTrustee
- Rt Rev Thomas NeylonTrustee
- Sean Christopher KeyesTrustee · since 2020
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 total360Giving 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
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
- Department for Education
- Department for Education
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.
12 trustees on the board
- Rev John Francis Sherrington Chair since 2025
- Carol Lawrence since 2020
- Colette O'Brien since 2020
- Ian Hollows since 2020
- REV Provost Anthony O'Brien
- Rev Canon Aidan Prescott since 2021
- Rev Canon Michael Fitzsimons since 2019
- Rev Gerard James Callacher since 2023
- Rev Graeme Michael Dunne since 2024
- Rev Philip Inch
- Rt Rev Thomas Neylon
- Sean Christopher Keyes since 2020
Trustees past 6 years
- Rev Canon Michael Fitzsimons since 2019
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (5)
- Ian Hollows since 2020
- Rev Canon Aidan Prescott since 2021
- Rev Canon Michael Fitzsimons since 2019
- Rev Philip Inch
- Rt Rev Thomas Neylon
Portfolio (7)
- Rev John Francis Sherrington Chair since 2025
- Carol Lawrence since 2020
- Colette O'Brien since 2020
- REV Provost Anthony O'Brien
- Rev Gerard James Callacher since 2023
- Rev Graeme Michael Dunne since 2024
- Sean Christopher Keyes since 2020
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
17.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 31.3 in 2020
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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