The St Albans Cathedral Education Trust

Analysis

The St Albans Cathedral Education Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in St Albans. It was registered in May 1988, 38 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, religious activities and arts/culture/heritage/science, which this site groups under religion. It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending July 2025, The St Albans Cathedral Education Trust reported income of £48k and spending of £50k, spending 104% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from July 2021 to July 2025, income grew from £46k to £48k (+3.5%), an average of +0.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to July 2023, when income rose by 37%. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 20,496 England and Wales charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, The St Albans Cathedral Education Trust sits at the 47th percentile: it is larger than about 47% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 60th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include St Lawrence Chapel Warminster (£48k), The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of Pucklechurch and Abson (£48k) and The Redeemed Christian Church of God the Shepherd House Derby (£48k).