ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY (ENGLAND AND WALES)

Registered charity 1053992 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL, SVDP, SVP

The objective of the Charity is the relief of poverty, both material and emotional in England & Wales and abroad through: the person to person involvement of its voluntary members engaged in befriending and through 'Special Works' , which are projects established to address specific needs in the local community

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net movement in funds surplus of £1,269,378 for the year, driven largely by a significant pension gain of £3,199,800 following the exit from the Tyne & Wear Pension fund. Total funds increased to £12,515,777, although the charity noted that costs have risen across all areas while demand for services remains at historic highs. The trustees confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Saffery LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 10 (FY2024) → 0 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — St Vincent De Paul Society (SVP England and Wales) (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Kate Nightingale — CEO (source)
• Bev Whittaker — Director of Governance and Culture (source)
• Helen Voyce — Director of Retail, Trading & Social Enterprise (source)
• Chris Lucas — Director of Finance (source)
• Sarah Barber — Director of Membership Services (source)
• Timothy O'Sullivan — Director of Internal & External Affairs (source)
• Elaine Heyworth — National President (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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

21 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (5 freehold); recorded price paid £1.5m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 6.8% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (08/08/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (08/07/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (22/04/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (01/02/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (24/11/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (10/12/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Elaine Heyworthchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Anthony James McGuigan
• Clare O'Brien Mrs · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Stephen Gill · trustee of 2 other charities
• ELIZABETH CREEVY
• Gustavo Vas Falcao
• MARK GRAHAM BRANCH · trustee of 1 other charity
• MONICA CHIDGEY
• NASHA PIERRE
• Patricia Nobbs
• Peter Joseph McGauley
• Suzanne Anita Motha
• WINSTON WALLER

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

Operates in: Grenada · Guernsey · Guyana · India · Isle Of Man · Jersey · Romania · South Sudan · Sudan · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE DAUGHTERS OF CHARITY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL CIO.

• THE DAUGHTERS OF CHARITY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL CIO income £2.7m
• ENYP income £209k
• MISSIONARIES OF CHARITY OF MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA TRUST income £1.0m
• VALAN SOCIAL WELFARE TRUST income £759k
• TRUST PROPERTY HELD ICW THE ENGLISH PROVINCE OF THE CONGREGATION OF THE SISTERS OF THE PRESENTATION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY income £3.8m
• THE ZACCHAEUS 2000 TRUST income £956k

Side by side with its peers

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