NORTHAMPTON ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESAN TRUST

Registered charity 234091 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE ROYAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF NORTHAMPTON

The advancement of the Roman Catholic religion in the Diocese of Northampton through parishes, schools and other curial bodies.

Objects

IN OR TOWARDS ADVANCING THE ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIGION IN THE DIOCESE OF NORTHAMPTON AND FOR THE SERVICE AND SUPPORT OF CHARITABLE WORKS AND OBJECTS PROMOTED BY THE CHURCH

Area of benefit: ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF NORTHAMPTON

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

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

Registered contact address: West Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an overall loss for the year of £1,188,268, driven by a 22.1% increase in total expenditure to £10,733,198, largely due to deferred church property repairs and rising utility costs. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £8,155,505, which represents approximately 14.6 months of unrestricted expenditure, falling within the stated prudent policy target of 12–15 months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 5 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 policy and procedures
• 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 3 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2024 (received 31/07/2025, 181 days after the 31/01/2025 due date); year ending 31/03/2023 (received 29/11/2024, 303 days after the 31/01/2024 due date); year ending 31/03/2022 (received 03/04/2023, 62 days after the 31/01/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00442173
• Trading subsidiary: RCDN PROPERTY SERVICES LIMITED Companies House 10913981 · Financial health read from its filings
• Trading subsidiary: ST THOMAS OF CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL CENTRE LIMITED Companies House 10914025

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.

• O'CONNOR, James — director, appointed 20/03/2026not on trustee list
• PENHALAGAN, Simon Stewart, Reverend — director, appointed 20/09/2024not on trustee list
• GALLAGHER, Clive Edward John — director, appointed 02/08/2023not on trustee list
• BROOKS, Kathleen Angela — director, appointed 19/06/2023not on trustee list
• PURFIELD, Deborah Veronica — director, appointed 31/05/2023not on trustee list
• CAMPBELL, Siobhan Hannah — director, appointed 19/05/2022not on trustee list
• PERRY, Christopher Richard, Rev — director, appointed 31/08/2021not on trustee list
• HARRISON, Michael Robert, Canon — director, appointed 18/08/2021not on trustee list
• KILLEEN, Brendan Christopher Patrick, Reverend Doctor — director, appointed 03/12/2002not on trustee list
• HEYWORTH, Elaine — secretary, appointed 19/12/2025

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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~31.4 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 2.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (14/05/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Northampton Roman Catholic Diocese Trustee(The)

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

Operates in: Bedford · Buckinghamshire · Central Bedfordshire · Luton · Milton Keynes · Northamptonshire · Slough

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with NOTTINGHAM ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESAN TRUSTEES.

• NOTTINGHAM ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESAN TRUSTEES income £13.5m
• THE NORTHAMPTON DIOCESAN PRIEST'S FUND income £154k
• THE SALFORD DIOCESAN TRUST income £29.7m
• SHREWSBURY ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESAN TRUST income £18.2m
• THE DIOCESE OF NORWICH CHURCHES TRUST income £55k
• CLIFTON DIOCESE income £12.2m

Side by side with its peers

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