EAST ANGLIA ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESAN TRUST

Registered charity 278742 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Promotion of the Roman Catholic faith within the Diocese of East Anglia

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIGION IN THE EAST ANGLIA DIOCESE BY SUCH MEANS BEING CHARITABLE AS THE BISHOP OF EAST ANGLIA MAY THINK FIT AND PROPER AND FOR THE SERVICE AND SUPPORT WHETHER IN THE EAST ANGLIA DIOCESE OR OUTSIDE THE EAST ANGLIA DIOCESE BY SUCH MEANS AS AFORESAID OF CHARITABLE WORKS AND OBJECTS PROMOTED BY THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH.

Area of benefit: THE ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF EAST ANGLIA

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 · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: South Norfolk, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a surplus of £0.1 million after investment losses, with total funds rising to £36.5 million. However, the filing notes that cash reserves of £2.2 million are below the Trustees' policy target of 24 months' budgeted Curia expenditure, and a deficit reduction plan is in place to eliminate the Curia operating deficit by 2027.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2024) to "below" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events 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
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Catholic Diocese of East Anglia (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Peter Collins — 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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £180k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~47.0 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (72% 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: 2.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• East Anglia Roman Catholic Diocese Trustee (The)

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire · Norfolk · Peterborough City · Suffolk

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 CATHOLIC TRUST FOR ENGLAND AND WALES.

• CATHOLIC TRUST FOR ENGLAND AND WALES income £10.3m
• EAST OF ENGLAND ORTHODOX CHURCH income £69k
• LANCASTER ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESAN TRUST income £10.7m
• EAST ANGLIA DIOCESE DEPENDENT PRIESTS' FUND income £72k
• DARTFORD COMMUNITY CHURCH income £358k
• Re Church income £133k

Side by side with its peers

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