St John's College Limited

The school principally provides a high level of education to boys and girls in Cardiff and the surrounding areas from the ages of 3 to 18 years in the context of a recognized Choir School.

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

In Wales

• Cardiff

Area of benefit in its governing document: Not Defined

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 August 2025, it had income of £7,118,790 and spent £7,760,133.

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 12%, from £6,369,924 in the year to 31 August 2021 to £7,118,790 in the year to 31 August 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 109% of its income in the year to 31 August 2025. It spent more than its income in 5 of the 5 years shown.

Largest funder

Archdiocese of Cardiff gave £5,240 in the year to 31 August 2025, 0% of that year's income.Read by AI from the charity's accounts.

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.

In its accounts for the year ending 31 August 2025, the charity named 1 funder who gave £5,240. £0 of that came from public bodies.

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No grants to this charity appear in 360Giving data.

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Public bodies' published spending shows 1 payment to this charity worth £600, on 6 October 2022.

Councils and Welsh Government publish what they pay suppliers and grant holders above a threshold, usually £500 for councils and £25,000 for Welsh Government, so smaller payments are missing. A payment is shown only when OpenEconomy matched it to this charity with certainty. These figures come from the payer's records. They are a separate measure from the charity's own accounts, 360Giving grants and its annual return, and are never added to them.

Council business that names this charity, from the records councils publish, gathered by OpenCouncil. Newest first.

• 28 March 2024, Cardiff

  Named in an agenda item or minute of Council

  Oral Questions

  Read the meeting record

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7 trustees run the charity.

• John Charles Rees QCChairAppointed 3 May 2016
• Anthony Thomas NorthAppointed 10 March 2026
• Pamela Jayne SmeraldAppointed 10 April 2026
• Patricia PavlovicAppointed 18 September 2026
• Rachel DaviesAppointed 1 April 2020
• Simon Henry James
• Stephanie Kate EdenAppointed 1 April 2020

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

701294

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

3 May 1989

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 24 MARCH 1987 AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS PASSED 3 JULY 1987, 27 OCTOBER 1988 AND 3 JANUARY 1989.

Company number

02114449This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

www.stjohnscollegecardiff.comAs the charity gave it on the register.

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.
• Funding from accounts: the charity's filed accounts, read by OpenEconomy's AI accounts reader on 1 November 2026.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there, as loaded by OpenEconomy.
• Payments from public bodies: each body's own published spending data, matched to the charity by OpenEconomy. 5 public bodies' data is included so far.
• In council meetings: councils' published meeting records, gathered by OpenCouncil and matched to the charity by OpenEconomy on 4 November 2026.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• Its accounts and annual returns on the register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

• OpenCouncil: council records that name this charity
• OpenCouncil: Cardiff Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Cardiff's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Caerdydd Ffynnon Taf
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Caerdydd Penarth