The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 6th September 2026

The Catholic Schools Trust

Registered charity 295175 Registered since 1986

Operates: Dorset

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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
18.2y
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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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.

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Connected through a shared trustee

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.leweston.co.uk
Emailbursary@leweston.dorset.sch.uk
Phone01963 210691
AddressLeweston School, Sherborne, DT9 6EN

Finances

£9,780,255 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£6,265,167£7,002,418
2022£7,478,109£7,484,997
2023£9,037,170£8,992,885
2024£9,935,288£10,392,007
2025£9,780,255£10,583,242

What it does

What

Education/trainingReligious Activities

Who

Children/young PeopleOther Defined Groups

How

Makes Grants To IndividualsProvides Human ResourcesProvides Buildings/facilities/open Space

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.

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

Trustees (3)

3trustees
47median age
0aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

The Catholic Schools Trust · 02041443 · Active

PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption) · incorporated 28/07/1986

6 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

Connected charities (3)

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