ST LAURENCE EDUCATION TRUST

Registered charity 1063808 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The main charitable activities were the provision of education to boys and girls from the ages of 11 to 18 through the independent school Ampleforth College.

Objects

The Objects of the Charity are for the public benefit:• The education of children and young persons, in accordance with the doctrines and principles of the Roman Catholic faith and the tradition and the spirit of the Rule of St Benedict;• The support of the Community, in order to further its ability to promote education; • The advancement of the Roman Catholic faith; and• Such other charitable purposes in connection with the advancement of education which are in accordance with the general aims of the Abbey Trust and of the Roman Catholic faith as the Trustees think fit from time to time.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus for the year, with net assets increasing significantly to £7,175,000, largely due to the transfer of funds from the Ampleforth Abbey Trust. Per the trustees' report, cashflow remained strong and the charity holds a net current asset position, allowing it to maintain a going concern basis despite recent VAT increases on fees.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Saffery LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• [Withdrawn] Charity Commission appoints interim manager to Ampleforth Abbey and the St Laurence Education Trust gov.uk · 03/04/2018
• [Withdrawn] New charity investigation: Ampleforth Abbey and St Laurence Education Trust gov.uk · 13/12/2016

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Barbara Matthews
• Burdell Robin
• Caroline Louise Marshall · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Clea Elizabeth Harmer
• Dr Michael Anthony Clarke
• Edmund Anthony Craston · trustee of 1 other charity
• John Francis Shipsey
• Jonathan Richard Lewis · trustee of 1 other charity
• Martha Byrne Hill
• Matthew Anthony Joseph Mostyn
• Nicholas Howard van Zeller
• Nicholas Hugh Channer
• Penelope Walkinshaw
• ROBERT ARTHUR HALIFAX SWORD
• Richard Edmund Tams
• Sarah Elizabeth Sadler
• Stephanie Garthwaite

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: North Yorkshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ALVECHURCH EDUCATIONAL TRUST.

• ALVECHURCH EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £27k
• ST PHILIP'S SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED income £2.0m
• BEACHBOROUGH SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED income £7.3m
• ST OLAVE'S SCHOOL TRUST income £3.4m
• THE SCHOOL OF ST HELEN AND ST KATHARINE TRUST income £16.5m
• ELSTREE SCHOOL LIMITED income £7.4m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.