CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF PORTSMOUTH

Registered charity 1199568 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The advancement of the Roman Catholic religion in the Diocese of Portsmouth through its parishes, schools and other works.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO (THE OBJECTS) ARE THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIGION IN THE DIOCESE IN SUCH WAYS BEING CHARITABLE AS THE BISHOP SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DIRECT AND FOR THE SERVICE AND SUPPORT WHETHER IN THE DIOCESE OR OUTSIDE THE DIOCESE IN SUCH WAYS AS AFORESAID OF ANY LAWFUL CHARITABLE PURPOSES WHETHER EDUCATIONAL OR OTHERWISE PROMOTED OR SUPPORTED BY THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH.

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Diocese ended the year in an overall surplus position with total income of £18.2 million and total expenditure of £17.7 million. However, the trustees note that underlying cost pressures remain significant and that financial stability is a challenge, particularly where parish resources are stretched.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Bishop Philip Egan — Bishop of Portsmouth (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)

233 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (225 freehold); recorded price paid £4.8m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

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

Reported reserves equal ~63.9 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (10/02/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anne-Marie Eden
• Christopher David Trickey · trustee of 1 other charity
• MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER ELKS · trustee of 1 other charity
• Paul Anthony Kilduff · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Benjamin Graham Theobald · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Christopher Michael Heaps · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Gaston Forbah Afah
• Rev James Joseph McAuley · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Paul James Smith · trustee of 3 other charities
• Richard Taylor
• Rt Rev Bishop Philip Anthony Egan · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Cameroon · Guernsey · Jersey · Kenya · Philippines · Throughout England

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST THOMAS OF CANTERBURY PORTSMOUTH.

• CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST THOMAS OF CANTERBURY PORTSMOUTH income £1.3m
• PORTSMOUTH DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £9.4m
• EAST ANGLIA ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESAN TRUST income £8.1m
• PORTSMOUTH AND WINCHESTER DIOCESAN BOARD OF EDUCATION income £584k
• PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL ALL SAINTS' CHURCH, RYDE income £556k
• THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF CHRIST AND THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY IN THE DIOCESE OF CHESTER income £4.9m

Side by side with its peers

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