Local Governing Body

Who we are

https://www.thegaudetetrust.com/

OUR NAME

Our name – Gaudete – was chosen after much reflection. This collaborative trust is a new venture for Religious Orders in England and Wales, so we wanted a name that makes people stop and think about its meaning. It is a name that tells us to rejoice!

We rejoice in the Good News of the Gospel.
We rejoice in the Holy Spirit who is enabling us to create something new and is teaching us what true
collaboration means.
We rejoice in the rich heritage of Religious Orders in education.

But most of all we rejoice in our young people for whom this trust was built, and we want them, as we say in our vision of education, to be able to rejoice in the person they are and so achieve the fulness of life of which Jesus spoke.

ORIGIN

The Gaudete Trust was established in 2023 by five Religious Orders, following a three-year collaborative
venture steered by a working group of the National Association of Religious Orders in Education (ROE).
This venture was part of the latter’s mission to enable the rich heritage of Religious Orders to continue to
enrich Catholic education and flowed from its desire to respond creatively to the needs of its members.
The mainspring of the Trust is the desire of Religious Orders to continue to put their charisms at the service of the Church.

By adopting a collaborative approach to trusteeship, the Gaudete Trust offers those Religious Orders who have found the responsibilities of educational trusteeship increasingly difficult to carry, an alternative way of continuing to serve Catholic education.

LEGAL STATUS

The Gaudete Trust is a legal entity with the authority to take on those legal, financial, and inspirational responsibilities of educational trusteeship that were for-merly exercised by individual Religious Orders. It is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) recognised by the Charities Commission and a Public Juridic Person recognised by the Church.