The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 6th September 2026

The Foundation of Saint Matthias

Registered charity 311696 Registered since 1965

Operates: Scotland, Northern Ireland, Throughout England

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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.

16 trustees on the board

3.7y median 2y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (11)

Portfolio (5)

8
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 16Religious Activities 15General Charitable Purposes 2Animals 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 7Other services 3Property 3

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£243k latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025

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

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitestmatthiastrust.org.uk
Emailstmatthiastrust@bristoldiocese.org
Phone01179060100
AddressFIRST FLOOR, HILLSIDE HOUSE, 1500 PARKWAY NORTH, NEWBRICK ROAD, STOKE GIFFORD, BRISTOL

Finances

£242,945 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£222,429£320,843
2022£242,249£359,774
2023£241,554£391,538
2024£241,225£367,363
2025£242,945£397,110

What it does

What

Education/trainingReligious Activities

Who

Other Defined Groups

How

Makes Grants To IndividualsMakes Grants To Organisations

Charitable objects

The object of the charity is the advancement of education in the area of benefit with a preference for higher or further education; such education contributing to the advancement of the mission and ministry of the Church of England, in particular through the following means: (1) the education and training of persons who are, or intend to become, engaged in social welfare work as social workers, community workers, youth workers, teachers, supervisors of pre-school groups or otherwise; (2) the education and training of persons intending to become ministers of the Church of England or of a church in communion therewith; (3) in providing such special benefits of any kind not normally provided by the Local Education Authorities or from central government funds in schools or academies (within the meaning of the Education Acts) in which religious instruction in accordance with the principles of the Church of England is given, in the Dioceses of Bath and Wells, Bristol or Gloucester as may from time to time be agreed between the trustees and the Governors of the school concerned; (4) in providing, or assisting in the provision of, a chaplaincy for students of establishments of higher or further education by paying, or assisting in the payment of, the stipend of one or more priests of the Church of England or otherwise; (5) in assisting colleges established for charitable purposes only at which provision is made for the training of teachers; and (6) in making grants to persons in need of financial assistance to enable them to attend an establishment of higher or further education, to travel in furtherance of their education, to study music or other arts or, on leaving any educational establishment, to prepare for, or to enter a profession, trade or calling.

Governing document: SCHEME DATED 22/08/2011AS AMENDED BY RESOLUTION DATED 11/11/2015 as amended on 16 Mar 2021 as amended on 09 Apr 2025 as amended on 09 Apr 2025 as amended on 09 Apr 2025 as amended on 26 Mar 2026 as amended on 26 Mar 2026

Trustees (16)

16trustees
68median age
3aged 70+

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