SARUM COLLEGE

Registered charity 1161253 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q7424719 · Wikipedia

Sarum College is an ecumenical study, conference and research centre. Our educational programme is organised in seven Sarum Centres of Learning. These Centres offer a variety of courses within our specialist areas of Christian Spirituality, Leadership, Ministry, Liturgy and Worship, Theology, Imagination and Culture and The Arts. Within the college is a bookshop and library.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION, AND TO ADVANCE THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION, TRAINING, FORMATION AND SPIRITUAL GROWTH, INCLUDING (BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION) BY THE PROVISION AND MAINTENANCE OF A COLLEGE.

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: Wiltshire, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a net surplus of £351,096 for the year, reversing a previous deficit. The trustees report that unrestricted reserves were £291,356, which is below the stated policy target of three months' expenditure (£512,079). The charity has a wholly owned trading subsidiary that contributed significantly to income through hospitality services.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Fletcher & Partners. Discloses 5 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.

• 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
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• The Rt Revd Dr John Inge KCVO — Chair of Trustees (source)
• The Revd Dr Rob James — Principal (source)
• The Revd Louisa Mason — Chief Operating Officer (source)
• The Revd Paul Burden — Academic Dean and Vice-Principal (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)

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

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.7 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (46% 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: 23.8% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (25/11/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (10/01/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Ruaraidh Adams-Cairns
• Dr John Geoffrey Inge
• Emma Charlotte Osborne · trustee of 1 other charity
• LUCY ELIZABETH SALISBURY
• Rev Christine Mary Smith
• Rev Rachel Ann Bending · trustee of 1 other charity
• Revd Canon Angela Karen Nutt · trustee of 1 other charity
• Revd Dr Kenneth Peter Joseph Padley · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rt Revd Noel Michael Roy Beasley · trustee of 3 other charities
• Rt Revd Stephen David Lake · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sir Marcus James O'Lone
• The Revd Canon Professor Elizabeth Bridget Stuart · trustee of 2 other charities
• The Venerable Dr Chigor Chike · trustee of 3 other charities
• Timothy James Mynott · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

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 SARUM ST MICHAEL EDUCATIONAL CHARITY.

• SARUM ST MICHAEL EDUCATIONAL CHARITY income £200k
• SOLOMON ACADEMIC TRUST income £311k
• EBRAHIM COMMUNITY COLLEGE income £502k
• SARUM HALL SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED income £4.0m
• UNIVERSITIES & COLLEGES CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP income £4.6m
• REAL CARE LTD income £1.8m

Side by side with its peers

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