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.

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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.

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 4.8 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 (5.2%) (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

• RT REV MARK DAVIES · trustee of 4 other charities
• Rev John Francis Sherrington · trustee of 3 other charities
• Rev John Stanley Kenneth Arnold · trustee of 8 other charities
• Rt Rev Marcus Nigel Stock
• Rt Rev Stephen James Lawrence Wright · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rt Revd Paul Swarbrick · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Durham

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BETHEL UNITED CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST APOSTOLIC U.K..

• BETHEL UNITED CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST APOSTOLIC U.K. income £1.1m
• ST CUTHBERT'S SOCIETY JUNIOR COMMON ROOM income £230k
• THE CHURCH OF THE HOLY GHOST CROWTHORNE TRUST income £3.1m
• EVERSHEDS SUTHERLAND (INTERNATIONAL) CHARITABLE TRUST income £519k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF BATH ST. BARTHOLOMEW income £449k
• ST CUTHBERTS PLAYGROUP income £146k

Side by side with its peers

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