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Registered charity · Durham

ST Cuthbert's College Ushaw

ST Cuthbert's College Ushaw is a registered charity (number 527408) based in Durham, governed by 6 trustees. Latest income £3.1m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 18th October 2026.

Also known as Ushaw College, St Cuthbert's College (Charity Commission)

  • 6 trustees
  • Income £3.1m (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
Durham
Website
www.ushaw.org (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2010

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£3.1m£3.6m
  • 2024£2.7m£2.3m
  • 2023£1.4m£2.3m
Earlier years
  • 2022£2.0m£1.9m
  • 2021£1.3m£1.2m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2022: Government grants 5%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

1. THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE TO:(I) ADVANCE, IN SUCH WAYS AS THE EPISCOPAL GOVERNORS THINK FIT, THE ROMAN CATHOLIC FAITH. (II) PROVIDE A COLLEGE FOR EDUCATING CATHOLICS IN THEOLOGY, PHILOSOPHY AND RELATED SCIENCES AND OTHER SUBJECTS OF EDUCATIONAL VALUE. (III) ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC AND TO PROMOTE RESEARCH FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN THEOLOGY AND RELATED SUBJECTS OF EDUCATIONAL VALUE.2. THE LAND IDENTIFIED IN THE SCHEDULE TO THE SCHEME MUST BE RETAINED BY THE COLLEGE TRUSTEES FOR USE FOR THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY.

Grants received

18 grants · £1,891,106 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

  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £1,236,200 (4 grants)
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £434,000 (5 grants)
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport · £200,170
  • Point North · £17,360 (6 grants)
  • Community Foundation North East · £2,676

Most recent

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.

8.2y median 10y
average tenure
13y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (1)

Portfolio (5)

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 6Religious Activities 6General Charitable Purposes 3The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 2

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Health and social care 6Education 1Other services 1

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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£3.1m 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.

4.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 25.2 in 2021

49 from 41 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.
74 days
Latest accounts filed after the due dateiFiled after the due dateDate the accounts were received minus the reporting due date, latest filed cycle, Charity Commission register.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
527408
Status
Registered
Governing document
NO FORMAL TRUST DEED - ANCIENT FOUNDATION AS AMENDED BY SCHEME DATED 17 JULY 2003 AS AMENDED ON 1 OCTOBER 2026
Contact on the register
0191 373 8500 · meet@ushaw.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 18th October 2026
Labels
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