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Registered charity · Sherborne

The Catholic Schools Trust

The Catholic Schools Trust is a registered charity (number 295175) based in Sherborne, governed by 3 trustees and chaired by Hugh Anthony Hayama Dickinson since 2025. Latest income £9.8m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 18th October 2026.

  • 3 trustees
  • Income £9.8m (2025)
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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training, Religious Activities
Where
Dorset
Website
www.leweston.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Catholic Schools Trust
Registered
1986

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£9.8m£11m
  • 2024£9.9m£10m
  • 2023£9.0m£9.0m
Earlier years
  • 2022£7.5m£7.5m
  • 2021£6.3m£7.0m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2021: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROVIDE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT SUCH CHARITABLE WORKS WHERESOEVER AND WHATSOEVER AS ADVANCE THE ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIGION AND IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING) TO ACQUIRE PROVIDE CONDUCT AND DEVELOP AN INDEPENDENT ROMAN CATHOLIC SCHOOL OR SCHOOLS FOR THE EDUCATION OF ROMAN CATHOLIC CHILDREN EITHER WITH OR WITHOUT OTHER CHILDREN AND ANCILLARY RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY AT LARGE PROVIDED THAT IN THESE ARTICLES THE EXPRESSION "ROMAN CATHOLIC" SHALL INDICATE COMMUNION WITH THE SEE OF ROME.

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.

3 trustees on the board

1y median 1y
average tenure
1y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
18.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (2)

Portfolio (1)

3
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 3Religious Activities 3The 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 10Finance 4Professional services 4

Gaps to watch

  • Small board - little cover if a trustee leaves

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.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£9.8m 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.

1.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 0.6 in 2021

214 from 180 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
295175
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 28/07/1986AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 09/05/1994AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 27/12/2007AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 05/03/2013AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 13/05/2014 as amended on 14 Dec 2025 as amended on 13 Jan 2026
Companies House
Company number 02041443 · Active
Contact on the register
01963 210691 · bursary@leweston.dorset.sch.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 18th October 2026
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