ST COLUMBA'S COLLEGE AND PREPARATORY SCHOOL

Registered charity 1088480 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Charity provides education in St Albans to boys and girls from the ages of 4 to 18. It promotes the intellectual, social, moral and spiritual development of young people within a school community rooted in the Roman Catholic tradition. The Charity actively supports schools of the Brothers of the Sacred Heart, especially through an annual work projects.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a profit of £1,045,927 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with total unrestricted reserves amounting to £14,281,975. The governors report that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, with no material uncertainties identified regarding its going concern status.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Karl Guest — Headmaster (source)
• Martha Moroney — Chair of Governors (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Property (HM Land Registry)

5 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (3 freehold); recorded price paid £2.6m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~11.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (98% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Barbara Margaret Elliott
• Br Joseph Francis Holthaus
• Br Raymond Alan Hetu · trustee of 1 other charity
• Brother Ronald Joseph Hingle
• Dominic Keogh
• Jack Rankin
• Joseph Doherty
• Martha Moroney
• Oliver James Adams
• Stephen Byrne

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

Operates in: Hertfordshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• Br Raymond Alan Hetu — trustee here and at BROTHERS OF THE SACRED HEART

Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with St Albans Education Group.

• St Albans Education Group income £33.1m
• ST COLUMBA'S OXFORD UNITED REFORMED CHARITY income £206k
• ST COLUMBA'S CHURCH DAY CENTRE income £213k
• ST MARY'S SCHOOL, HAMPSTEAD income £4.5m
• ST MARY'S COLLEGE CROSBY TRUST LIMITED income £11.5m
• ST ALBANS SCHOOL income £23.6m

Side by side with its peers

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