BETHESDA EVENTIDE HOMES IPSWICH

Registered charity 1051043 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Bethesda Eventide Homes provide high quality residential care to elderly residents in an environment where individuals are actively encouraged to retain their own identities and the lifestyle of their choice according to their physical and mental capabilities.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a surplus of £150,717 and total unrestricted funds of £1,870,666. The trustees report that free reserves of £511,037 represented 3.2 months of expenditure, which is below their stated policy target of retaining four months of expenditure. The charity operates a defined contribution pension scheme and has no trading subsidiaries or related-party transactions.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sumer Auditco Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House IP16842R

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Claire Cates — Deputy Home Manager (source)
• Karen Bannister — Business Manager (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

CQC provider record: Bethesda Eventide Homes — Registered, 1 registered location, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 06/04/2022.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.2 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (98% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• KAREN FAIRWEATHERchair
• ANDREW WRIGHT
• CHRISTINE JAYE
• JANET GUNNER
• Mel Armstrong
• Melanie Armstrong
• Paul Gooderham
• TERRY MANN

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

Operates in: Suffolk

Income and spending

Common questions

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE EVENTIDE HOMES.

• THE EVENTIDE HOMES income £561k
• NORTHERN COUNTIES EVENTIDE HOME LIMITED income £1.1m
• BETHANY HOMESTEAD income £2.0m
• GOSPEL STANDARD BETHESDA FUND income £1.4m
• BETHANY CARE TRUST income £1.5m
• EOTHEN HOMES LIMITED income £6.5m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.