The Pontifical Beda College, Rome Trust Fund

Analysis

The Pontifical Beda College, Rome Trust Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Bromley. It was registered in September 1965, 61 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training and religious activities, which this site groups under religion. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending August 2025, The Pontifical Beda College, Rome Trust Fund reported income of £159k and spending of £242k, spending 152% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2021 to August 2025, income grew from £153k to £159k (+3.6%), an average of +0.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2022, when income rose by 16%. Over the whole period it spent 167% of the income it received.

Among 20,496 England and Wales charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, The Pontifical Beda College, Rome Trust Fund sits at the 73rd percentile: it is larger than about 73% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 78th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Headley All Saints (£159k), Helping Hands Ministries UK (£159k) and The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St Mary the Blessed Virgin, Gomersal (£159k).

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.