ARCHDIOCESE OF CARDIFF-MENEVIA

Registered charity 1177272 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ARCHDIOCESE OF CARDIFF

The principal objects of the charity are the preservation and advancement of the Roman Catholic faith, and the provision of primary and secondary education

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £146,972 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds. The trustees' policy is to maintain free reserves equivalent to six months of total expenditure, but the document notes a deficit of £2,314k in immediately available cash reserves when restricted funds are excluded from net current assets. However, the trustees highlight that £8.227m is held in investments available to be transferred into cash at one week's notice.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Menzies LLP. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Property (HM Land Registry)

85 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (82 freehold); recorded price paid £700k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~4.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (27/08/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (11/07/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (08/04/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (28/02/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (20/06/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (15/06/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Llewellyn
• Dr Nora Killeen
• Jane Shankland
• Karen Angela Penhorwood Jones
• Paul Relf · trustee of 3 other charities
• Rev Benedict Koledoye
• Rev Brian Gray
• Rev Paul Watson
• Rev Phillip Manghan
• Right Rev Mark O'Toole
• William Jonathan O'Leary

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

Operates in: Cardiff · Herefordshire

Income and spending

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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 THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE CITY PARISH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, CARDIFF.

• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE CITY PARISH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, CARDIFF income £112k
• CARDIFF VINEYARD income £1.2m
• THE BRIDGE CHURCH, CARDIFF income £374k
• EGLWYS EFENGYLAIDD CAERFYRDDIN income £122k
• EMMANUEL CHURCH CARDIFF income £151k
• BETHESDA CARDIFF income £382k

Side by side with its peers

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