STONYHURST

Registered charity 1127929 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q2274271 · Wikipedia · also known as STONEYHURST

The activities of the charity are to;A - Advance the Roman Catholic Religion andB - Advance EducationBy the conduct of one or more Roman Catholic schools in the charism of the Society of Jesus and by ancillary religious and educational activities for the benefit of the community at large.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE TO:(A) ADVANCE THE ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIGION; AND(B) ADVANCE EDUCATION;BY THE CONDUCT OF ONE OR MORE ROMAN CATHOLIC SCHOOLS IN THE CHARISM OF THESOCIETY OF JESUS AND BY ANCILLARY RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES FOR THEBENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY AT LARGE ("THE OBJECTS")

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, LOCAL

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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Registered contact address: Ribble Valley, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £3.0m for the year ended 31 August 2025, driven by a trading surplus and significant unrealised gains on its investment portfolio. Per the trustees' report, the charity maintains a strong unrestricted balance sheet with total funds of £65.8m, supported by an investment portfolio valued at £40.5m, to ensure long-term financial sustainability and support for bursaries.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Moore Kingston Smith LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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
• Complaints handling
• 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
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/08/2023 (received 01/07/2024, 1 day after the 30/06/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: STONYHURST COLLEGE DEVELOPMENTS LIMITED Companies House 01482392
• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06632303

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Stonyhurst College (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Mr William Doherty — Head of Stonyhurst (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.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• BELDERBOS, Simon Michael, Dr — director, appointed 01/09/2024on trustee list
• CROOS, Andrew Dushan, Father — director, appointed 11/06/2024on trustee list
• HURST, David Mark — director, appointed 02/02/2024on trustee list
• MCCORMICK, Helen — director, appointed 29/09/2023on trustee list
• NOYONS, Andrew — director, appointed 11/09/2023on trustee list
• YOUNG, Sarah Virginia Lucy — director, appointed 01/09/2023on trustee list
• DODD, Joanne Margaret — director, appointed 01/09/2019on trustee list
• LAGERBERG, Gerard John — director, appointed 01/09/2018on trustee list
• KEUNEN, Christine Margaret — director, appointed 08/12/2017not on trustee list
• DAWSON, Roger, Fr — director, appointed 01/05/2017on trustee list

Official officers record.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (7,325 followers) · instagram (10K followers)

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

Reported reserves equal ~31.3 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (70% 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: 9.6% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (16/06/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Noyons · trustee of 1 other charity
• Catherine McDermott
• Christine Kuenen
• David Mark Hurst
• Dr Isabelle Cullen
• Dr Simon Michael BELDERBOS
• Fr Andrew Dushan CROOS
• Gerard Lagerberg · trustee of 2 other charities
• Helen MCCORMICK
• Joanne Dodd
• Michael Edward Burrowes
• Rev Roger Dawson
• Sarah Virginia Lucy Young

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

Operates in: Lancashire

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.

• Andrew Noyons — trustee here and at THE STONYHURST FOUNDATION

Known funders

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

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE STONYHURST ASSOCIATION.

• THE STONYHURST ASSOCIATION income £151k
• CHRISTIAN VISION income £27.2m
• SARUM ST MICHAEL EDUCATIONAL CHARITY income £200k
• THE ARC income £1.4m
• HOLDING FORTH THE WORD income £200k
• ST JOHN THE BAPTIST SCHOOL ASSOCIATION income £37k

Side by side with its peers

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