THE SOUTHEND ON SEA DARBY AND JOAN ORGANISATION LIMITED

Registered charity 1093882 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Care of the elderly by way of and including the provision of care homes

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure deficit of £37,243 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £3,120,072 to £3,082,829. Per the trustees' report, the charity maintains free reserves of approximately £500,000, which aligns with its stated policy of holding between three and six months of expenditure, and the auditor 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 Francis James & Partners LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04378521

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.

• TAYLOR, Shelley — director, appointed 22/07/2026on trustee list
• SMITH, Simon Paul — director, appointed 07/02/2024on trustee list
• GATES, Gillian — director, appointed 20/01/2021not on trustee list
• ANDREWS, Anne Elizabeth — director, appointed 02/04/2012on trustee list

Official officers record.

CQC provider record: The Southend-On-Sea Darby & Joan Organisation Limited — Registered, 3 registered locations, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 11/04/2019.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

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

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (95% 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).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (31/03/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (17/09/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANNE ELIZABETH ANDREWS
• Gilly Gates
• Melanie Venables · trustee of 2 other charities
• Shelley Taylor
• Simon Paul Smith

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

Operates in: Essex · Southend-on-sea

Income and spending

Common questions

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with RESPONSE ORGANISATION.

• RESPONSE ORGANISATION income £17.0m
• BRYONY HOUSE LIMITED income £1.2m
• THE ABBEYFIELD LANCASTER SOCIETY LIMITED income £1.4m
• THE ABBEYFIELD (CAMBORNE) SOCIETY LIMITED income £137k
• SUTTON AND CHEAM ELDERLY PEOPLE'S HOUSING ASSOCIATION income £1.5m
• ST HELENS AND KNOWSLEY CARING ASSOCIATION income £2.8m

Side by side with its peers

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