WALSINGHAM COLLEGE (YORKSHIRE PROPERTIES) LTD

Registered charity 211331 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PARCEVALL HALL GARDENS

Maintain a community college, hostel or house for religious or other charitable purposes and associated purposes.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH SUPPORTING THE GUARDIANSHIP AND MAINTENANCE OF THE SHRINE OF OUR LADY OF WALSINGHAM. (B) TO CONTINUE TO HOLD THE FREEHOLD MESSUAGE, LAND AND PROPERTY KNOWN AS PARCEVALL HALL, APPLETREEWICK, NEAR SKIPTON, IN THE COUNTY OF YORK, TOGETHER WITH CERTAIN FURNITURE AND EFFECTS THEREIN, AND TO USE THE SAME FOR THE RELIGIOUS OR OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES OF THE CHARITY. (C) TO FURNISH AND FIT OUT WITH ALL REQUISITE FURNITURE AND EQUIPMENT AND MAINTAIN AND MANAGE THE FREEHOLD PREMISES AFORESAID AS A COMMUNITY COLLEGE, HOSTEL OR HOME FOR SUCH RELIGIOUS OR OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE CHARITY MAY DETERMINE. (D) TO PROVIDE RELIGIOUS TRAINING FOR STUDENTS AND CANDIDATES FOR HOLY ORDERS AND ARRANGE FOR LECTURES AND RETREATS AND PROVIDE SUCH RECREATION AS MAY BE CALCULATED TO CONDUCE TO THE EQUIPMENT AND EFFICIENCY OF STUDENTS IN THE CARRYING ON OF THEIR STUDIES. (E) TO PROVIDE A HOME OR REST FOR CLERGY AS A MEANS OF PHYSICAL AND MENTAL RECUPERATION FOR THOSE IN NEED OF REST.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL

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 · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity has been audited by Larking Gowen LLP, which issued a clean, unqualified opinion with no modifications. The trustees have confirmed that current and future sources of funding are adequate, and they continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting for at least twelve months from the date of signing.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Larking Gowen 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
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00440129

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.

• READ, Christopher Martin — director, appointed 19/04/2021on trustee list
• TURNER, Patricia Ann, The Reverend Canon — director, appointed 21/01/2019on trustee list
• MCQUATER, John Edward — director, appointed 21/01/2019on trustee list
• CARTWRIGHT, Paul, The Reverend Canon — director, appointed 27/09/2018on trustee list
• BELL, Brian, Reverend — director, appointed 29/04/2013on trustee list
• SHEEHY, Jeremy Patrick, The Revd Dr — director, appointed 01/01/2011on trustee list
• MANTLE, Richard John, Sir — director, appointed 02/10/2001not on trustee list
• BELL, Brian, Reverend — secretary, appointed 15/09/2014

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2022)

Reported reserves equal ~28.5 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 7.1 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other (66% 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: 3.3% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.0%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Brian Bell · trustee of 3 other charities
• CHRISTOPHER MARTIN READ · trustee of 2 other charities
• Canon Ann Turner
• Father Paul Cartwright
• John McQuater
• Rev JEREMY PATRICK SHEEHY
• Sir Richard Mantle OBE DL · 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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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WALSINGHAM TRUST.

• WALSINGHAM TRUST income £3.3m
• WESTMINSTER COLLEGE TRUST, OXFORD income £645k
• THE WALSINGHAM COLLEGE TRUST ASSOCIATION LTD income £3.6m
• WALSINGHAM CARE income £523k
• ST HILDA'S COLLEGE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD income £16.0m
• THE GUILD OF OUR LADY OF RANSOM income £622k

Side by side with its peers

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