TRINITY COLLEGE BRISTOL LIMITED

Registered charity 311793 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as TRINITY COLLEGE BRISTOL

To provide training in theological education to men and women for ordained and lay Christian ministry.

Objects

TO PROVIDE EDUCATION IN THEOLOGY AND FOR THIS PURPOSE TO MAINTAIN AND CONDUCT THE THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE KNOWN AS TRINITY COLLEGE, BRISTOL AND OTHER SCHOOLS, COLLEGES AND PLACES OF EDUCATION.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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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Registered contact address: Bristol, City of, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a profit on activities of £354,163 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with total incoming resources of £3,101,821. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £13,088,845, significantly exceeding the stated policy target of £250,000. The auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting was appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Saffery 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 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
• 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)

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01056656
• Trading subsidiary: TRINITY COLLEGE ENTERPRISES LIMITED Companies House 03117365

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Trinity College Bristol (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• BANTING, David Percy, Revd — director, appointed 02/06/2025on trustee list
• ROGERS, Christopher, Revd Dr — director, appointed 02/06/2025on trustee list
• CHAPMAN, Rebecca Justine — director, appointed 21/10/2024on trustee list
• MORGAN, Thomas Robert, Revd — director, appointed 10/06/2024on trustee list
• PRIOR, Esther Tamisa, Revd — director, appointed 10/06/2024on trustee list
• SCAMMAN, Jonathan Leitch, Revd Canon — director, appointed 01/11/2022not on trustee list
• MOODEY, Jeremy Michael, Rev — director, appointed 13/06/2022on trustee list
• KANAGARATNAM, Anjali Miriam, Revd — director, appointed 13/06/2022on trustee list
• DUFF, Michael Ian, Revd — director, appointed 03/06/2019on trustee list
• POTTER, Simon Jonathan, Revd — director, appointed 21/05/2018on trustee list
• PARKINSON, Gillian Margaret — secretary, appointed 01/09/2025

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

6 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (6 freehold); recorded price paid £725k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.7 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (78% 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: 10.4% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (31/08/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev Esther Tamisa Priorchair
• Rebecca Justine Chapman · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rev Anjali Kanagaratnam · trustee of 3 other charities
• Rev Christopher Rogers · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev David Percy Banting
• Rev Jeremy Michael Moodey · trustee of 4 other charities
• Rev Jon Scamman
• Rev Michael Duff
• Rev Simon Jonathan Potter · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rev Thomas Robert Morgan · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Bristol City

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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Charities like this

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

• TRINITY SCHOOL TRUST income £510k
• TRINITY COLLEGE LONDON income £53.1m
• TRENT COLLEGE LIMITED income £19.8m
• BRISTOL BAPTIST COLLEGE income £659k
• TRINITY BAPTIST CHURCH income £1.7m
• THE LONDON TRUST FOR TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN income £2.6m

Side by side with its peers

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