DONNINGTON HOUSE CARE HOME LIMITED

Registered charity 1098508 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Charity operates as a Care Home, providing residential and nursing care for up to 27 older people with a connection to Chichester or the surrounding area.

Objects

TO PROVIDE RESIDENTIAL ACCOMMODATION AND ASSOCIATED AMENITIES FOR PERSONS IN NEED OF NURSING OR OTHER CARE AND WITH A CONNECTION TO CHICHESTER OR THE SURROUNDING AREA WHETHER BY WAY OF BIRTH, FAMILY OR OTHER ASSOCIATION.

Area of benefit: CHICHESTER OR THE SURROUNDING AREA

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

Causes: Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Chichester, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £17,167 for the year ended 31 May 2025, with total unrestricted funds of £1,259,424. The trustees confirm that reserves are maintained at a level equivalent to six months' expenditure, which they consider sufficient to ensure continuity of activities. The auditor confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and that 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 Moore (South) LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "within" (FY2024) to "above" (FY2025).

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

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
• Complaints policy and procedures
• 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
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/05/2023 (received 17/05/2024, 47 days after the 31/03/2024 due date); year ending 31/05/2021 (received 20/04/2022, 20 days after the 31/03/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04693798

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.

• WILLIAMS, Joanne Marie — director, appointed 21/11/2024not on trustee list
• WILLIAMS, Laura Jayne — director, appointed 21/11/2024on trustee list
• BAREHAM, Anne — director, appointed 01/01/2023on trustee list
• EVERSHED-MARTIN, Justin Christopher — director, appointed 15/02/2021on trustee list
• TAMLYN, Gregory, Dr — director, appointed 16/02/2015not on trustee list
• SHIPPAM, John Hugh Shipstone — director, appointed 11/03/2003not on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: Donnington House Care Home Limited — Registered, 1 registered location, 2 regulated activities, last inspected 14/09/2022.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/05/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~7.5 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 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: 0.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (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).

• Donnington House Care Home: Requires improvement (20/10/2022) · CQC record

Trustees · trustee networks

• Laura Jayne Williamschair
• Anne Bareham
• Dr GREG TAMLYN
• JOHN HUGH SHIPSTONE SHIPPAM JP DL · trustee of 1 other charity
• JUSTIN EVERSHED-MARTIN
• Joanne Wiliiams

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

Operates in: West Sussex

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• JOHN HUGH SHIPSTONE SHIPPAM JP DL — trustee here and at THE BASSIL SHIPPAM AND ALSFORD TRUST

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

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 SHIPSTON HOME NURSING.

• SHIPSTON HOME NURSING income £873k
• SUTTON AND CHEAM ELDERLY PEOPLE'S HOUSING ASSOCIATION income £1.5m
• DERWENTSIDE HOSPICE CARE FOUNDATION income £2.0m
• PEACEHAVEN HOUSE income £2.4m
• Ridgegate Home income £1.0m
• SUNNINGHILL PAROCHIAL CHARITIES income £51k

Side by side with its peers

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