SHREWSBURY ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESAN TRUST

Registered charity 234025 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as DIOCESE OF SHREWSBURY

Education/TrainingDisabilityRelief of PovertyReligious ActivitiesEnvironment/Conservation/HeritageGeneral Charitable Purposes

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Latest income

£18.2m

Latest spending

£20.1m

Registered

1964

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income decreased to £18.1m from £20.8m in the prior year, while total expenditure fell to £20.1m from £22.6m, resulting in a net deficit. The Trustees report that unrestricted reserves are maintained at current levels to meet possible shortfalls in income, noting that the charity holds significant property and investment assets to cover more than 12 months of costs.

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

What the accounts disclose

Highest-paid employee band: £80,001 - £90,000 — below the median for charities its size (£130k)

“Between £80,001 and £90,000” — page 41

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Employees paid over £60,000: 2

“The average number of employees in the year was 225 (2024: 222). The total remuneration paid to key management personnel, including clergy, who hold a central Diocesan role was £280,654 (2024: £204,226). 2025 Employee emoluments: Between £80,001 and £90,000 Number 2” — page 41

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Reserves policy: maintained to at least the current level (held: £637k)

“The Trustees have not determined a fixed amount of general reserves that is needed but consider that the reserves need to be maintained to at least the current level in order to meet possible shortfalls in income.” — page 17

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Related-party transaction: Debt owed by St Cuthbert's College - Ushaw to the Diocese.

“The Bishop of the Diocese is a Trustee of St Cuthbert's College - Ushaw, charity number 527408. As at the 31st March 2025 St Cuthbert's College - Ushaw owed the Diocese £6,053 (2024 - £6,053)” — page 42

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Trading subsidiary: Shrewsbury Diocese Commercial Co Ltd, Salop Service Company Limited, Hale Barns Events Limited

“The statement of financial activities ("the SOFA") and balance sheet consolidate the financial statements of the charity and its subsidiary companies, Shrewsbury Diocese Commercial Co Ltd, Salop Service Company Limited, and Hale Barns Events Limited.” — page 29

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Bishop Mark Davies — Bishop of Shrewsbury (source)
Canon Jonathan Brandon — Vicar General (source)
Canon Michael Gannon — Vicar General (source)
Canon David Roberts — Director of Education (source)
Sandy Fairley — Director of Youth Mission Team (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.

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

Total income

£18.2m

Total spending

£20.1m

Cost of raising funds

£3.8m

Reserves (reported)

£637k

Employees

225

Reported reserves equal ~0.4 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 20.9% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

Received assets from another charity (06/10/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
Received assets from another charity (06/10/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
Received assets from another charity (06/10/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

Shrewsbury Roman Catholic Diocesan Trustee Limited

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£18.2m	£20.1m
31/03/2024	£20.8m	£22.6m
31/03/2023	£17.2m	£20.5m
31/03/2022	£12.4m	£13.0m
31/03/2021	£10.0m	£10.9m

Common questions

Is SHREWSBURY ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESAN TRUST financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that total income decreased to £18.1m from £20.8m in the prior year, while total expenditure fell to £20.1m from £22.6m, resulting in a net deficit. The Trustees report that unrestricted reserves are maintained at current levels to meet possible shortfalls in income, noting that the charity holds significant property and investment assets to cover more than 12 months of costs. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by HaysMac LLP.

What does the highest-paid employee of SHREWSBURY ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESAN TRUST earn?

Per its FY2025 accounts, the highest-paid employee was in the £80,001 - £90,000 band, and 2 employees earned over £60,000.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
UK government	01/04/2020	£5.1m	School Condition Allocation - Voluntary Aided Sector Recipients
UK government	01/04/2020	£611k	Devolved Formula Capital - Local Authority & Voluntary Aided Sector Recipients
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	20/09/2018	£532k	"Restoration of Velarde's Masterpiece"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	22/06/2017	£169k	"Urgent repairs to rot-affected tower roof and structure of Grade II* listed RC church"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	08/09/2016	£236k	"Wirral: St Michael & All Angels, Woodchurch"
The National Lottery Community Fund	07/03/2013	£10k	In With The New
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	07/05/2004	£21k	"Parish Records Conservation Project"

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
THE ALBERT GUBAY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	3	£66k
CATHOLIC TRUST FOR ENGLAND AND WALES	2	£98k
SISTERS OF THE CROSS AND PASSION CIO	1	—
THE KARLSSON JATIVA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	1	£81k
HOLLYHOCK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	1	£61k
THE UNION OF THE SISTERS OF MERCY OF GREAT BRITAIN	1	£36k
THE ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE FUND	1	£31k
THE PILGRIM TRUST	1	£22k

Charities like this

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

BIRMINGHAM DIOCESAN TRUST income £24.2m
THE SALFORD DIOCESAN TRUST income £28.8m
EAST ANGLIA ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESAN TRUST income £8.1m
LANCASTER ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESAN TRUST income £10.7m
PLYMOUTH DIOCESAN TRUST income £7.6m
SHREWSBURY OPPORTUNITY GROUP income £109k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
SHREWSBURY ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESAN TRUST	£18.2m	£80,001 - £90,000	2	unclear	—	no doubt
BIRMINGHAM DIOCESAN TRUST FY2024	£24.2m	—	—	unclear	0.7%	no doubt
THE SALFORD DIOCESAN TRUST FY2024	£28.8m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
EAST ANGLIA ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESAN TRUST FY2024	£8.1m	more than £60,000	3	above	—	no doubt
LANCASTER ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESAN TRUST FY2025	£10.7m	more than £60,000	1	unclear	—	no doubt
PLYMOUTH DIOCESAN TRUST FY2025	£7.6m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt

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