Gloucestershire Catholic Educational Trust

Registered charity 293360 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CHARLTON PARK SCHOOL TRUST, ST EDWARD'S SCHOOL CHELTENHAM TRUST

Gloucestershire Catholic Educational Trust is the legacy charity for St Edward's School, Cheltenham, formed following the acquisition of St Edward's by an independent schools group. The Trust supports children in Catholic education in Cheltenham and the surrounding area by providing grants, bursaries and awards.

Objects

The object for which the Trust is established is to promote and provide for such charitable works wheresoever and whatsoever as advance the Roman Catholic religion and in particular but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing to advance Roman Catholic education for the public benefit in or near Cheltenham PROVIDED THAT in the memorandum the expression "Roman Catholic" shall indicate communion with the See of Rome

Area of benefit: CHELTENHAM

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

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a surplus of £105,364 for the year ended 31 December 2024, driven by investment gains. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted funds stood at £2,240,184, and the trustees confirmed adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Investment
• Risk management
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2022)

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (95% 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: 0.0% of total income.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jane Jones
• John Patrick Andrews · trustee of 1 other charity
• Robert Edwin Alger

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

Operates in: Gloucestershire

Income and spending

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