CATENIAN ASSOCIATION BURSARY FUND LIMITED

Registered charity 1081143 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CATENIAN ASSOCIATION BURSERY FUND LIMITED

Provides funding to individual Catholic young people aged 16 - 24 to undertake voluntary work lasting a minimum period of 15 days or who help to look after sick pilgrims visiting Lourdes.

Objects

THE COMPANIES OBJECTS ARE:- (1) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION (2) THE RELIEF OF PERSONS IN CONDITIONS OF NEED HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS (3) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF YOUNG PEOPLE WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THEIR PHYSICAL MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL WELFARE (4) OTHER PURPOSES (PROVIDED THAT THEY ARE ALSO CHARITABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES) BENEFICIAL TO THE COMMUNITY IN ANY COUNTRY OR JURISDICTION IN WHICH THE CATENIAN ASSOCIATION IS NOW OR SHALL HEREAFTER BE ACTIVE. (SEE MEMORANDUM FOR FURTHER DETAILS)

Area of benefit: WORLDWIDE

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity is currently making more awards than its income, a position sustained by a generous legacy and previous Covid surpluses. Trustees acknowledge the need to rebalance the books through fundraising initiatives to maintain award levels. The document highlights a dependency on continued donor contributions to sustain current operations.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Financial Conduct Authority. 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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Catenians — “As a registered charity in the UK, funded by members of the ‘Catenians’—an organisation dedicated to promoting friendship, support, and stre…” (source page)

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Trustees · trustee networks

• ANDREW CHARLES THEOBALD · trustee of 2 other charities
• Andrew Paul Smith
• David William Arundale
• Habib Karam
• Jean Harkin · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kevin Anthony McKenna
• Kevin Campbell
• Kevin Francis O'Sullivan · trustee of 1 other charity
• Steven Graham Webb

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

Operates in: Australia · Canada · France · India · Ireland · Isle Of Man · Malta · Northern Ireland · Poland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales · United States

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CATENIAN ASSOCIATION BENEVOLENT AND CHILDREN'S FUND.

• CATENIAN ASSOCIATION BENEVOLENT AND CHILDREN'S FUND income £488k
• CLS BURSARY AND AWARDS FUND income £167k
• CHAI NETWORK income £246k
• CLSG BURSARY AND AWARDS FUND income £1.4m
• THE AUSTIN BAILEY FOUNDATION income £545k
• THE DOMINICAN CONGREGATION OF SAINT CATHERINE OF SIENA OF OAKFORD, NATAL CIO income £129k

Side by side with its peers

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