Mount St Bernard Abbey Trustees Registered

Analysis

Mount St Bernard Abbey Trustees Registered is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Coalville. It was registered in March 1964, 62 years ago. Its declared purposes cover religious activities, which this site groups under religion. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals, makes grants to organisations and provides services.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Mount St Bernard Abbey Trustees Registered reported income of £1.4m and spending of £1.3m, spending 94% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £651k to £1.4m (+114%), an average of +21% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 43%. Over the whole period it spent 103% of the income it received.

Among 20,496 England and Wales charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, Mount St Bernard Abbey Trustees Registered sits at the 97th percentile: it is larger than about 97% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 95th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St Michael & All Angels, Barnes (£1.4m), The Oxford Centre for Mission Studies (£1.4m) and Nottingham Trent Valley Methodist Circuit (£1.4m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 55%, donations and legacies 29% and investments 15%. Gifts in wills alone brought in £277k. Charitable activities took 93% of spending and raising funds 6.2%. Grants to other organisations totalled £27k. Reserves of £2.6m would cover about 24 months of spending at that rate. It employed 13 people.