BERNHARD BARON CARE HOME

Registered charity 1070891 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BBCH, BERNHARD BARON COTTAGE HOMES

We provide residential care in a homely community setting encouraging independence and improving the quality of life of our residents. We are more of a community than a residential care home while providing 24 hour loving care for our residents in a lovely setting with dedicated, experienced and well trained staff.

Causes: Accommodation/housing · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net loss of £36,455 for the year ended 31 March 2025, primarily driven by a £246,518 increase in staff costs due to Living Wage adjustments and National Insurance rises. Despite the loss, the charity holds free unrestricted reserves of £781,632, which exceeds its stated policy target of three months' expenditure (£750,448). The trustees consider these reserves appropriate given continued political and economic uncertainties.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by TC Group. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03580252

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Trudi Knight — Head of Home (source)
• Laura Reid — Care Manager (source)
• Kate Fenton — 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.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• GRIST, Aileen Elizabeth Sheila — director, appointed 31/01/2025on trustee list
• WEST, Alan David — director, appointed 03/11/2023on trustee list
• THURLEY, John Waring — director, appointed 21/04/2017on trustee list
• GIBBS, Katherine Anne — director, appointed 07/07/2013not on trustee list
• HALLETT, Susan Nicola — director, appointed 06/11/2009not on trustee list
• STOCK, Jean Elizabeth — director, appointed 22/11/2003on trustee list
• APPLETON, Peter Allan — director, appointed 08/06/2001on trustee list

Official officers record.

CQC provider record: Bernhard Baron Care Home — Registered, 1 registered location, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 29/11/2019.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.0 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% 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: 0.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Care Quality Commission ratings

CQC inspection ratings for services run by a provider matching this charity’s name (matched by name; verify provider identity on CQC’s site).

• Bernhard Baron Care Home: Good (15/01/2020) · CQC record

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (05/09/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• PETER ALAN APPLETONchair
• Aileen Elizabeth Sheila Grist
• Alan David West
• JEAN ELIZABETH STOCK
• JOHN WARING THURLEY
• Jacqueline Serena Jarvis · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kathy Gibbs
• Mrs Patricia Sear
• SUE HALLETT

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

Operates in: East Sussex

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with New Forest Care Homes Ltd.

• New Forest Care Homes Ltd income £1.8m
• THE ROYAL MASONIC BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION CARE COMPANY income £64.6m
• BAXENDALE CARE HOME income £2.7m
• ST. TERESA'S HOME CIO income £1.7m
• NAZARETH CARE CHARITABLE TRUST income £43.3m
• BARNET CARERS CENTRE income £1.8m

Side by side with its peers

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