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East Anglia Roman Catholic Diocesan Trust

  • 1 trustee
  • Income £8.1m (2024)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

No individual trustees are listed on the register.

Also 1 organisation acting as trustee: The East Anglia Roman Catholic Diocese Trustee.

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, Overseas Aid/famine Relief, Religious Activities
Where
Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Peterborough City
Website
www.rcdea.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The East Anglia Roman Catholic Diocese Trustee
Registered
1980

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£8.1m£7.7m
  • 2023£6.8m£7.8m
  • 2022£6.3m£7.5m
Earlier years
  • 2021£6.4m£6.3m
  • 2020£6.1m£6.1m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Income source mix, 2023: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIGION IN THE EAST ANGLIA DIOCESE BY SUCH MEANS BEING CHARITABLE AS THE BISHOP OF EAST ANGLIA MAY THINK FIT AND PROPER AND FOR THE SERVICE AND SUPPORT WHETHER IN THE EAST ANGLIA DIOCESE OR OUTSIDE THE EAST ANGLIA DIOCESE BY SUCH MEANS AS AFORESAID OF CHARITABLE WORKS AND OBJECTS PROMOTED BY THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH.

Grants received

15 grants · £799,768 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

  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £465,224 (2 grants)
  • Department for Education · £142,144 (2 grants)
  • SHAREGIFT · £50,000
  • Cambridgeshire Community Foundation · £50,000
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £45,541 (3 grants)

Most recent

  • SHAREGIFT £50,0002026-01-16
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £218,3242025-06-11
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport £19,6182024-04-01
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport £9,1722023-04-01
Board analysis

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£8.1m 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.

51.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 6.7 in 2020

57 from 62 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
278742
Status
Registered
Governing document
DEED OF REVOCATION AND APPOINTMENT DATED 2ND OCTOBER 1979
Companies House
Company number 01412758 · Active
Contact on the register
01508492540 · finance@rcdea.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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