St James the Great RC School

Analysis

St James the Great RC School is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Thornton Heath. It was registered in March 2008, 18 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, disability, the prevention or relief of poverty and arts/culture/heritage/science, which this site groups under disability. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending March 2025, St James the Great RC School reported income of £16k and spending of £20k, spending 127% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £15k to £16k (+5.8%), an average of +1.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income rose by 120%. Over the whole period it spent 238% of the income it received.

Among 12,871 England and Wales charities whose main cause is disability and that reported income, St James the Great RC School sits at the 35th percentile: it is larger than about 35% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 40th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Chitrapur Saraswat Samaj UK (£16k), The Bardsey Village Hall (£16k) and Albinism Fellowship (£16k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.