Common questions about East Anglia Roman Catholic Diocesan Trust's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is East Anglia Roman Catholic Diocesan Trust a good charity? +
East Anglia Roman Catholic Diocesan Trust scores 75 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 97% of its spending goes to charitable activities (3-yr avg) and its accounts are up to date. That reflects how transparent and financially healthy it looks on paper — it does not measure the real-world impact of its work, so treat it as one factor alongside the cause you care about. CharityCompare never tells you where to donate.
Is East Anglia Roman Catholic Diocesan Trust a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists East Anglia Roman Catholic Diocesan Trust as a registered charity (charity number 278742). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=278742&subId=0. Check the current entry and the identity of anyone requesting money. Registration does not verify a particular appeal; Clarity Score summarises filing transparency, not programme impact.
What is East Anglia Roman Catholic Diocesan Trust's charity number? +
East Anglia Roman Catholic Diocesan Trust's charity number is 278742. Check that number on the official register (Charity Commission, OSCR or CCNI) or this CharityCompare profile before you donate — scammers sometimes reuse real numbers on fake appeals.
What is East Anglia Roman Catholic Diocesan Trust's charity rating? +
East Anglia Roman Catholic Diocesan Trust scores 75 out of 100 on CharityCompare (4 stars — Good). The Clarity Score (method v1.1) sums four pillars from UK regulator filings: Accountability & Transparency (40 pts), Financial Health (30), Financial Efficiency (20), and Community Support (10). Stars use the same bands as those labels — 90+ is 5★ Exceptional. It is not an impact ranking.
Does East Anglia Roman Catholic Diocesan Trust have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for East Anglia Roman Catholic Diocesan Trust. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (2 red flags on this profile: insufficient trustee oversight; very high reserves). For formal complaints about a charity, contact the Charity Commission, OSCR, CCNI or the Fundraising Regulator as appropriate.
How much of my donation reaches East Anglia Roman Catholic Diocesan Trust? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 97% of East Anglia Roman Catholic Diocesan Trust's total spending went to charitable activities (3-yr avg across disclosed years). That is the closest official figure to "how much of your donation reaches the cause" — it is an average across all spending in the filing, not a pound-by-pound breakdown of an individual gift.
What are East Anglia Roman Catholic Diocesan Trust's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 3% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 4% of expenditure (2022–2024, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at East Anglia Roman Catholic Diocesan Trust. East Anglia Roman Catholic Diocesan Trust's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports 3 employees paid more than £60,000. The highest reported pay band is £80,001–£90,000 (1 employee). Individual salaries, including the chief executive's, are disclosed in the trustees' annual report rather than on the register.
How much income does East Anglia Roman Catholic Diocesan Trust receive? +
East Anglia Roman Catholic Diocesan Trust reported £8.1m total income in its 2024 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are East Anglia Roman Catholic Diocesan Trust's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2025-10-28). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is East Anglia Roman Catholic Diocesan Trust based? +
East Anglia Roman Catholic Diocesan Trust's registered contact address is in Norwich (NR14 7SH). It tells the regulator it operates in Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Peterborough City, with a focus on international aid.
How much is East Anglia Roman Catholic Diocesan Trust's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. East Anglia Roman Catholic Diocesan Trust's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports 3 employees paid more than £60,000. The highest reported pay band is £80,001–£90,000 (1 employee). Charities normally disclose the chief executive's pay, or the pay of their highest-paid staff, in the remuneration note of the trustees' annual report and accounts.
Where does East Anglia Roman Catholic Diocesan Trust's money come from? +
East Anglia Roman Catholic Diocesan Trust reported £8.1m total income for the year ending 31 December 2024. The largest sources were donations and legacies £6.8m (84%), investments £790k (10%), trading and fundraising events £271k (3%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £665k.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to East Anglia Roman Catholic Diocesan Trust? +
The register records East Anglia Roman Catholic Diocesan Trust as registered with HMRC for Gift Aid, so a UK taxpayer can usually add 25p to every £1 they give by making a Gift Aid declaration.
Are East Anglia Roman Catholic Diocesan Trust's trustees paid? +
East Anglia Roman Catholic Diocesan Trust's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
When was East Anglia Roman Catholic Diocesan Trust registered as a charity? +
East Anglia Roman Catholic Diocesan Trust was entered on the register on 7 January 1980. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 01412758).
How does CharityCompare score East Anglia Roman Catholic Diocesan Trust? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in East Anglia Roman Catholic Diocesan Trust's regulator filings: Accountability & Transparency (40 points — filing history, trustees, policies), Financial Health (30 — reserves, income trend, debt), Financial Efficiency (20 — cause spend and fundraising cost, on a graduated scale) and Community Support (10 — volunteer-to-staff ratio). An open statutory inquiry scores 0. The score measures reporting on paper, not programme impact. CharityCompare is free for donors, takes no commission on donations, and scores cannot be bought.
How often is this page updated? +
This profile was last updated on 6 September 2026 from the latest UK regulator data available to CharityCompare, and East Anglia Roman Catholic Diocesan Trust's most recent accounts cover 2024. Scores and figures refresh whenever we re-ingest the register, so the page reflects our latest data pull rather than a one-off review.