ST MARY'S COLLEGE OSCOTT CIO

Registered charity 1172979 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity operates the Roman Catholic Seminary of the Archdiocese of Birmingham at Oscott College, for the education of men in Holy Orders (Priesthood and Permanent Diaconate). The programme of study lasts up to 6 years. The CIO also maintains the College building and grounds and operates a Catholic Cemetery. Other lawful charitable activities for the propagation of the RC faith are undertaken.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £386k for the year ended 31 July 2025, driven by net investment gains of £1,344k which offset an underlying operating loss of £958k. Total unrestricted funds stood at £47.9m, with the trustees considering this level appropriate to generate required income and maintain historic buildings. The trustees confirmed adequate resources for the foreseeable future, adopting the going concern basis.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Dains Audit Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 2 (FY2024) → 0 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Very Rev. Michael Dolman — Rector (source)
• The Most Rev. Bernard Longley — Chair of Trustees (source)
• Rev. Andrew Allman — Vice Rector (source)
• Rev. Michael Glover — Director of the Permanent Diaconate Formation Programme (source)
• Dr Mary McCaughey — Director of Studies (source)
• Dr Christopher Wojtulewicz — Dean of Philosophy (source)
• Rev. Craig Szmidt — Director of Music (source)
• Rev. Andrew Richardson — Pastoral Director (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 (4 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 31/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~173.9 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 3.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (23/10/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• The Most Reverend BERNARD LONGLEYchair
• Ana Luisa Roque Fouto
• Bernard Thaddeus O'Driscoll
• Graham Geoffrey Green
• Janet Mary Mellor · trustee of 2 other charities
• John Richard Gibbons
• Matthew John Feeley
• Michael Francis Swinburne · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rev Fr Craig Szmidt
• Right Reverend David Ernest Charles Evans · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Birmingham City

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE PONTIFICAL BEDA COLLEGE, ROME TRUST FUND.

• THE PONTIFICAL BEDA COLLEGE, ROME TRUST FUND income £159k
• ST MARY'S COLLEGE CROSBY TRUST LIMITED income £11.5m
• STONYHURST income £25.5m
• RELIGIOUS OF THE HOLY FAMILY OF BORDEAUX CIO income £14.0m
• LONDON SEMINARY CIO income £557k
• WORCESTER COLLEGE, OXFORD income £20.3m

Side by side with its peers

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