The Venerable English College Trust

The principal activity of the charity is to support the activities of the Venerable English College in Rome. This is achieved by making grants to the Venerable English College.

In the charity's own words, from the register.

Elsewhere

• Italy

Area of benefit in its governing document: Rome

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 August 2025, it had income of £455,768 and spent £715,464.

Figures as the charity reported them to the Charity Commission. Staff and volunteer numbers are only asked of charities with income over £10,000. A year with no row was not reported.

Separate measures from the charity's own returns and accounts, each with its year. Read them together: no single measure says how well a charity is run.

Income over time

Up 211%, from £146,473 in the year to 31 August 2021 to £455,768 in the year to 31 August 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 157% of its income in the year to 31 August 2025. It spent more than its income in 2 of the 5 years shown.

From the annual returns the charity filed with the Charity Commission. The largest funder comes from its accounts, read by AI.

Government grants in the year ending 31 August 2025: Not reported. Government contracts: Not reported.

From the charity's annual return to the Charity Commission, which asks every charity with income over £10,000 how much came from government grants and contracts. It does not say which part of government. These totals are separate from the named funders read from its accounts and the grants published on 360Giving, and are not added to them.

No grants to this charity appear in 360Giving data.

Only funders that publish their grants to 360Giving are included, and many do not. These are amounts funders awarded, which can differ from what the charity received in a given year, so they are shown apart from the accounts figures above.

7 trustees run the charity.

• Bishop John Francis SherringtonAppointed 31 December 2022
• Mary Susan ReynoldsAppointed 10 December 2021
• Most Reverend Mark O'TooleAppointed 15 March 2017
• Rev Stephen Wei-Jon WangAppointed 1 August 2021
• Sr Jane LiveseyAppointed 3 April 2019
• The Most Reverend John WilsonAppointed 9 December 2020
• Thomas HarrisonAppointed 14 March 2018

Trustees are responsible in law for the charity. Names are as they appear on the public register.

Of the last 5 annual returns that were due, 5 arrived by the deadline.

Charities with income over £10,000 send an annual return within 10 months of their year end, and those over £25,000 also send their accounts. Smaller charities only update their income and spending on the register. The dates are when the Commission received each document.

Charity number

1142558

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

23 June 2011

Governing document

DECLARATION OF TRUST DATED 24TH MARCH 1965

Company number

07476683This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Council area of its contact address

Cardiff

• Register details, income, spending, trustees and filing dates: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there, as loaded by OpenEconomy.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

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