The Catholic Diocese of Shrewsbury

Registered charity 234025 · since 1964dioceseofshrewsbury.org·Cheshire, Derbyshire, Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Shropshire·Updated 31 October 2026

Key takeaways

Your work is a fit only if it advances the Roman Catholic religion or is education that the Church in the Diocese promotes or supports, since the Church-led approach is central to this funder.
The annual report gives no grant range or annual giving figure, and the most recent register return shows no grants to institutions, so do not assume a size for your request and ask the funder first.
No application process is published, so the sensible first step is to use the contact shown on its website or in its annual report to ask whether it would consider your project.
Priority areas are Cheshire, Shropshire, Greater Manchester, Merseyside and Derbyshire, and those are the places it names as its focus.
Organisations whose work has no Church connection in religion or education are unlikely to match its stated aims.

Overview

The Catholic Diocese of Shrewsbury is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (charity number 234025).

The Catholic Diocese of Shrewsbury is a registered charity whose purpose is the advancement and maintenance of the Roman Catholic religion in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Shrewsbury. Its trustees act under the Diocesan Bishop's direction, and its remit also covers education promoted or supported by the Church in the Diocese and other lawful charitable purposes. Its annual report gave no readable grants figure, so its scale of giving is unclear from the published information.

What they fund

Priority Areas

The Trust is directed to the advancement and maintenance of the Roman Catholic religion in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Shrewsbury. The trustees, under the Diocesan Bishop’s direction, promote the charitable advancement of the Roman Catholic religion and lawful charitable purposes. Education is specifically included where it is promoted or supported by the Church in the Diocese, and the remit extends beyond the Diocese. Its stated approach is thus Church-led: religious advancement is central, while education and other lawful charitable purposes promoted or supported by the Church also fall within its aims.

Themes

Religious advancement
Education

Geographic Focus

Priority: Cheshire; Shropshire; Greater Manchester; Merseyside; Derbyshire.

How to apply

No application process is published in the charity's annual report, its register entry or its website. The contact shown is for getting in touch.

Where they fund

Where it says it funds

Similar funders

Funders supporting work similar to The Catholic Diocese of Shrewsbury.

Arundel and Brighton Diocesan TrustNo public processGave £411k St Peter's, Saltley TrustFixed deadlinesGave £181k Plymouth Diocesan TrustNo public processGave £151k The Rowlands TrustRollingGave £649k The Lady Forester TrustRollingGave £85,830 The Keith and Celia Coombs TrustNo public processGave £50,948 The Machzikei Hadass CommunitiesNo public processGave £1.5M The Ten Charitable TrustNo public processGave £402k The W E Dunn TrustRollingGave £151k The Derby Diocesan Board of FinanceNo public processGave £912k

Five years of accounts

Financial year	Income	Expenditure	Grants paid	Accounts document
year to 31 March 2021	£9,953,000	£10,929,000	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2021
year to 31 March 2022	£12,434,000	£13,038,000	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2022
year to 31 March 2023	£17,219,000	£20,548,000	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2023
year to 31 March 2024	£20,836,000	£22,589,000	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2024
year to 31 March 2025	£18,185,000	£20,121,000	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2025

— No grants figure for those years.

Figures from the charity’s filed accounts and its register entry. The document icon links to the charity’s entry on the Charity Commission register, where its filed accounts can be found.