THE STONYHURST FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1186994 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Stonyhurst Foundation provides financial support for scholarships, bursaries, grants, loans, prizes, maintenance allowances or other financial assistance to pupils and prospective pupils of Stonyhurst; and the provision of any other financial support for Stonyhurst, or the current or prospective pupils of Stonyhurst, as the trustees in their absolute discretion shall think fit.

Objects

5.1 THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN ANY OR ALL OF THE FOLLOWING WAYS:5.1.1 THE PROVISION OF FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR SCHOLARSHIPS, BURSARIES, GRANTS, LOANS, PRIZES, MAINTENANCE ALLOWANCES OR OTHER FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO PUPILS AND PROSPECTIVE PUPILS OF STONYHURST; AND5.1.2 THE PROVISION OF ANY OTHER FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR STONYHURST, OR THE CURRENT OR PROSPECTIVE PUPILS OF STONYHURST, AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION SHALL THINK FIT. 5.2 NOTHING IN THESE ARTICLES SHALL AUTHORISE AN APPLICATION OF THE CHARITY'S PROPERTY FOR PURPOSES THAT ARE NOT CHARITABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 7 OF THE CHARITIES AND TRUSTEE INVESTMENT (SCOTLAND) ACT 2005 AND/OR SECTION 2 OF THE CHARITIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 2008.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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 Foundation held unrestricted reserves of £6,643,896, with free reserves of £796,431, which is above the stated policy target of £250,000 to £500,000. The Trustees confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's financial viability or going concern status.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Saffery 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.

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

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 12132113

What the charity says about itself (2024/25)

From its own voluntary annual review / impact report — the charity’s account of its work, distinct from the statutory accounts analysed above.

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

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.

• DOHERTY, William John — director, appointed 22/06/2026on trustee list
• HANRATTY, Alexandra Robin — director, appointed 17/06/2025on trustee list
• NOYONS, Andrew — director, appointed 01/09/2024on trustee list
• CANN, Christopher James, Fr — director, appointed 07/09/2022on trustee list
• JEBSEN, Desiree — director, appointed 30/04/2021on trustee list
• HOLT, Frederick Terence — director, appointed 11/06/2020on trustee list
• CARNEGIE, Catherine Mary Elizabeth — director, appointed 11/06/2020on trustee list
• MURPHY, Ian Anthony — director, appointed 20/03/2020on trustee list
• DE ST JOHN-PRYCE, Winton — director, appointed 03/03/2020not on trustee list
• MCMILLAN, Keith Patrick — director, appointed 31/07/2019not on trustee list
• NEALON, Eugene Richard — director, appointed 31/07/2019on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Reported reserves equal ~5.6 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 3.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Eugene Richard Nealonchair
• Alexandra Hanratty
• Andrew Noyons · trustee of 1 other charity
• Catherine Mary Elizabeth Carnegie
• Desiree Jebsen
• Fr Christopher Cann
• Fr Keith Patrick McMillan SJ · trustee of 4 other charities
• Frederick Terence Holt
• Ian Anthony Murphy
• Thomas Edward Kilby
• William Doherty
• Winton de St John-Pryce

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

Operates in: Lancashire

Income and spending

Common questions

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 THE STONYHURST ASSOCIATION.

• THE STONYHURST ASSOCIATION income £151k
• STANFORD TRUST income £41k
• THE LEVERHULME TRUST income £124.5m
• STANFORD FOUNDATION (UK) LIMITED income £1.0m
• THE GRUMITT CHARITABLE TRUST income £63k
• FRANCIS BANCROFT'S TRUST income £179k

Side by side with its peers

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