THE GAUDETE TRUST

Registered charity 1202070 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Gaudete Trust will administer the responsibilities of educational trusteeship on behalf of the religious orders who entrust their schools to it. It will create a new family of schools in England with a common vision and mission while supporting and developing the original inspiration and charism of the Founders. These schools will provide an excellent academic and human formation.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CATHOLIC RELIGION BY SUCH MEANS AS THE MEMBERS MAY THINK FIT AND PROPER BY, BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING, THE PROVISION, MAINTENANCE, CARRYING ON, OVERSIGHT AND DEVELOPMENT OF CATHOLIC SCHOOLS IN ENGLAND AND WALES CONDUCTED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TEACHINGS AND CANON LAW OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.

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

Causes: Education/training · Religious Activities · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Camden, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £102,044 for the year, driven by investment losses of £134,863, despite generating £156,180 in income. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves totalled £154,986 at year-end, which the Trustees consider adequate to meet future short-term commitments.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 3 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.

• 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
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~22.9 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (98% 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: 0.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sister Brenda Mary Wallacechair
• Dame Maura REGAN · trustee of 2 other charities
• Dominique Bergantino
• Dr DAWN CASSERLY · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jane Maureen Mee · trustee of 1 other charity
• Joseph Hughes
• Michael Jonathan Russell · trustee of 1 other charity
• Roisin Mary Maguire · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with METHODIST ACADEMIES AND SCHOOLS TRUST.

• METHODIST ACADEMIES AND SCHOOLS TRUST income £97k
• FRIARSGATE TRUST income £123k
• THE EXETER EPISCOPAL SCHOOLS TRUST income £44k
• BEDGEBURY FOUNDATION TRUSTEE COMPANY income £143k
• THE SEKFORDE HOUSE TRUST income £96k
• LEEDS FAITH IN SCHOOLS income £207k

Side by side with its peers

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