ST CUTHBERT'S COLLEGE USHAW

Registered charity 527408 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ST CUTHBERT'S COLLEGE, ST CUTHBERT'S COLLEGE (KNOWN AS USHAW COLLEGE), USHAW COLLEGE

THE CHARITIY'S OBJECTS AND PRINCIPLE ACTIVITIES IS THE EDUCATION OF THOSE OF ALL FAITHS AND NONE.

Objects

1. THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE TO:(I) ADVANCE, IN SUCH WAYS AS THE EPISCOPAL GOVERNORS THINK FIT, THE ROMAN CATHOLIC FAITH. (II) PROVIDE A COLLEGE FOR EDUCATING CATHOLICS IN THEOLOGY, PHILOSOPHY AND RELATED SCIENCES AND OTHER SUBJECTS OF EDUCATIONAL VALUE. (III) ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC AND TO PROMOTE RESEARCH FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN THEOLOGY AND RELATED SUBJECTS OF EDUCATIONAL VALUE.2. THE LAND IDENTIFIED IN THE SCHEDULE TO THE SCHEME MUST BE RETAINED BY THE COLLEGE TRUSTEES FOR USE FOR THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY.

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.

Causes: Education/training · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: County Durham, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £496,459 for the year ended 31 March 2025, compared to a surplus in the prior year. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves have decreased to £1,303,868, with all unrestricted reserves held in fixed assets, leaving no free reserves. The trustees note that the charity is seeking additional funding sources to increase the level of free reserves to develop the charity.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Inspire Compliance Limited. 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• 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.

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 31/03/2025 (received 15/04/2026, 74 days after the 31/01/2026 due date); year ending 31/03/2024 (received 30/05/2025, 119 days after the 31/01/2025 due date); year ending 31/03/2023 (received 24/06/2024, 145 days after the 31/01/2024 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Ushaw Historic House, Chapels and Gardens (matched by registered charity number).

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 ~4.4 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (45% 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: 1.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (29/08/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ushaw Trustee Limited

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

Operates in: Durham

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 THE CHARLES HASTINGS EDUCATION CENTRE.

• THE CHARLES HASTINGS EDUCATION CENTRE income £699k
• FOUNDATION MATTERS income £366k
• ST CHARLES CATHOLIC PRE SCHOOL income £154k
• USER VOICE income £784k
• ST HILD COLLEGE income £1.1m
• THE NEW COLLEGE OF COBHAM income £239k

Side by side with its peers

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