PLYMOUTH DIOCESAN TRUST

Registered charity 213227 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PLYMOUTH DIOCESE, PLYMOUTH ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESAN TRUSTEES REGISTERED, PRCDTR

The advancement or maintenance of the Roman Catholic religion in the Diocese. The provision of religious services. The education and training of priests. The provision and maintenance of churches, presbyteries and schools. The maintenance and support of priests, the poor and others.

Objects

TO ADVANCE AND MAINTAIN THE ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIGION IN THE ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF PLYMOUTH.

Area of benefit: ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF PLYMOUTH

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

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Teignbridge, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Diocese operated at a net deficit of £3,683,000 for the year ended 31 March 2025, compared to a deficit of £2,751,000 in the previous year. Despite this deficit, the Trustees concluded that there are no material uncertainties regarding the Charity's ability to continue as a going concern, citing sufficient resources to meet liabilities as they fall due. The total net assets stood at £84,125,000, with free reserves calculated at £30,500,000.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by PKF Francis Clark, Torquay. 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.

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

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.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Nicholas Hudson — Bishop of the Diocese of Plymouth (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.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~33.1 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 10.6% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (15/09/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (17/08/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• PLYMOUTH ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESAN TRUSTEES REGISTERED

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

Operates in: Bournemouth · Cornwall · Devon · Dorset · Plymouth City · Poole · Torbay

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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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 WREXHAM DIOCESAN TRUST.

• WREXHAM DIOCESAN TRUST income £3.3m
• BIRMINGHAM DIOCESAN TRUST income £27.0m
• LEEDS DIOCESAN TRUST income £13.3m
• SHREWSBURY ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESAN TRUST income £18.2m
• EDITH BESSIE GIBSON TRUST income £233k
• PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF CHARLES WITH ST. MATTHIAS, PLYMOUTH income £272k

Side by side with its peers

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