SISTERS OF THE CROSS AND PASSION

Registered charity 1038483 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q3977441 · Wikipedia

It is the policy of the Charity to engage in a broad range of Charitable activities: Education, Health Care, Pastoral, Spiritual, Social Care and Financial help in U.K. and Ireland. We fund two projects in Bosnia providing palliative care for the terminally ill. In all our activities we try to respond where the need is greatest.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF POVERTY THE PROVISION OF RELIEF ASSISTANCE AND COMFORT TO THE SICK THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION OF THE TEACHINGS OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH IN THE LIGHT OF THE PRECEPTS CONTAINED IN THE SCHEDULE OF THE DECLARATION OF TRUST (OR SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS ARE LAWFULLY AUTHORISED FROM TIME TO TIME BY THE CONSTITUTIONS OF THE CONGREGATION BY SUCH MEANS AS ARE BEST SUITED TO THE TIMES AND THE PLACE IN WHICH THE PROVISION IS TO BE MADE

Area of benefit: NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bradford, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that free reserves of £7,931,842 were held at year-end, which the Trustees deem adequate and slightly above their stated policy target of approximately £6.8 million. The charity reported a net increase in funds of £44,001 for the year, driven by investment gains, while maintaining sufficient resources to meet liabilities as they fall due.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Saffery LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: ST GEMMA'S HOSPICE SERVICES LIMITED Companies House 03739423

CQC provider record: Sisters Of The Cross And Passion — Deregistered, 2 registered locations, last inspected 16/09/2014.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

CQC provider record: Sisters of the Cross and Passion — Deregistered, 1 registered location, last inspected 14/10/2020.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2022)

Reported reserves equal ~10.9 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 2.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sister Margaret Mary O'Regan C.P.chair
• Sister Claire Antoinette Dawson C.P. · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sister Eithne Donoghue C.P. · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sister Marie McNeice C.P. · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sister Maureen McNally C.P. · trustee of 1 other charity

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Bosnia And Herzegovina · Botswana · Northern Ireland · Papua New Guinea · Peru · Romania

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SISTERS OF THE CROSS AND PASSION CIO.

• SISTERS OF THE CROSS AND PASSION CIO income £18.4m
• SISTERS OF THE HOLY CROSS CIO income £1.6m
• THE SISTERS OF THE POOR CHILD JESUS income £295k
• COMMUNITY OF THE HOLY CROSS income £408k
• SISTERS OF CHARITY OF ST PAUL THE APOSTLE income £5.7m
• SISTERS OF THE SACRED HEARTS OF JESUS AND MARY CIO income £2.7m

Side by side with its peers

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