Durham Cathedral Schools Foundation

Analysis

Durham Cathedral Schools Foundation is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Durham. It was registered in July 1993, 33 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, which this site groups under education and training. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 02776914). It says it provides services.

In the financial year ending August 2025, Durham Cathedral Schools Foundation reported income of £14.1m and spending of £14.1m, spending 99% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2021 to August 2025, income grew from £9.2m to £14.1m (+53%), an average of +11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2023, when income rose by 23%. Over the whole period it spent 103% of the income it received.

Among 21,402 England and Wales charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Durham Cathedral Schools Foundation sits at the 99th percentile: it is larger than about 98% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 99th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The President and Fellows of Wolfson College in the University of Cambridge (£14.1m), The Sainsbury Laboratory (£14.2m) and Intouni (£14.0m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 96%, investments 1.9%, donations and legacies 1.2% and trading 1.1%. Charitable activities took 97% of spending and raising funds 3.4%. It employed 198 people.