ST JOSEPH'S COLLEGE READING TRUST

Registered charity 277077 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ST JOSEPH'S CONVENT SCHOOL READING TRUST, ST JOSEPH'S CONVENT SCHOOL READING TRUST LIMITED, ST JOSEPH'S SCHOOL READING TRUST LIMITED, ST JOSEPHS CONVENT SCHOOL

St. Joseph's College is an independent day school for girls and boys aged three to eighteen.The school aims to benefit the public through the advancement of education within the Roman Catholic ethos, providing the highest quality of academic tuition and ensuring the development of wider artistic, sporting and social skills in all pupils.

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Latest income
£8.8m
Latest spending
£9.3m
Registered
1979
Accounts read
FY2024

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The provided text is limited to the final page of the Independent Auditor's Report and does not contain financial data regarding reserves, income, or expenditure. Consequently, an assessment of the charity's financial health cannot be derived from this excerpt alone.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2024)

Total income
£8.8m
Total spending
£9.3m
Cost of raising funds
£120k
Reserves (reported)
£0
Employees
149

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (83% 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: 1.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Reading

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/08/2025——
31/08/2024£8.8m£9.3m
31/08/2023£8.4m£8.4m
31/08/2022£7.7m£7.8m
31/08/2021£6.9m£7.2m

Common questions

Is ST JOSEPH'S COLLEGE READING TRUST financially healthy?

Per its FY2024 accounts: The provided text is limited to the final page of the Independent Auditor's Report and does not contain financial data regarding reserves, income, or expenditure. Consequently, an assessment of the charity's financial health cannot be derived from this excerpt alone. Its FY2024 accounts were audited by Crowe U.K. LLP.

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.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CHELTENHAM COLLEGE AND CHELTENHAM COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
ST JOSEPH'S COLLEGE READING TRUST£8.8m——unclear—no doubt
CHELTENHAM COLLEGE AND CHELTENHAM COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL FY2025£41.7m£190,001 - £200,000—unclear—no doubt
BERKHAMPSTEAD SCHOOL (CHELTENHAM) TRUST LIMITED FY2025£5.4m——below—no doubt
Headington School Oxford Limited FY2025£28.8m——unclear—no doubt
KENNEDY INDEPENDENT SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED FY2025£5.8m——unclear—no doubt
THE KING'S SCHOOL, GLOUCESTER FY2025£13.9m——unclear—no doubt

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