Claretian Missionaries Trust

Analysis

Claretian Missionaries Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Cambs. It was registered in March 1964, 62 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, overseas aid/famine relief and religious activities, which this site groups under overseas aid and international. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it provides human resources, provides buildings/facilities/open space and provides services.

In the financial year ending December 2024, Claretian Missionaries Trust reported income of £511k and spending of £579k, spending 113% of what it took in. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2024, income grew from £469k to £511k (+8.8%), an average of +2.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 30%. Over the whole period it spent 112% of the income it received.

Among 1,223 England and Wales charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, Claretian Missionaries Trust sits at the 92nd percentile: it is larger than about 92% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 90th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Nasio Trust (£509k), The Old School Henstead Educational Trust Limited (£515k) and Guru Nanak Durbar (Sikh Temple), Erith & Belvedere, Kent (£508k).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 55%, donations and legacies 24%, investments 14% and trading 6.4%. Charitable activities took 89% of spending and raising funds 0.0%. Grants to other organisations totalled £5,227. Reserves of £418k would cover about 8 months of spending at that rate. It employed 9 people.

Data notes from the register: The regulator lists this charity's latest annual return or accounts as overdue. Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.