WESTMINSTER ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESAN TRUST AND OTHER TRUST FUNDS ADMINISTERED BY THE WESTMINSTER ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESAN TRUSTEE

Registered charity 233699 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as DIOCESE OF WESTMINSTER

Provision of places of worship.Provision of pastoral care.Provision of support to vulnerable and marginalised.

Causes: Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Charity’s free reserves increased to £28.8 million, which remains below the Trustees' stated target of £32.0 million. The Trustees note that while the Charity has sufficient resources to meet liabilities as they fall due, it faces risks from increasing construction costs and economic volatility.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Buzzacott Audit LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Archbishop Richard Moth — Archbishop (source)
• Bishop Paul McAleenan — Auxiliary Bishop (source)
• Bishop James Curry — Auxiliary Bishop (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 (17,888 likes) · instagram (11K followers)

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~5.1 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (01/03/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (22/02/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (11/11/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (14/09/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• WESTMINSTER ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE TRUSTEE · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Hertfordshire · Throughout London

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 THE WESTMINSTER ABBEY TRUST.

• THE WESTMINSTER ABBEY TRUST income £3.1m
• DIOCESE OF HEXHAM AND NEWCASTLE income £12.9m
• WESTMINSTER FUND income £23.8m
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST STEPHEN WITH ST JOHN, WESTMINSTER income £337k
• LEEDS DIOCESAN TRUST income £13.3m
• WESTMINSTER COLLEGE TRUST, OXFORD income £645k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.