ST LUKE'S CENTRE

Registered charity 1111058 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SLC

The centre offers education and wellness training for priests and religous throughout the UK and Ireland.The centre provides an initial assessment and evaluation of priests and religous men and women, who find themselves in need of psychological or spiritual care, and offers assessment of candidates for the priesthood and religous life, with the aim of preventing difficulties before they occur.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIGION, THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND THE PROMOTION OF HEALTH IN PARTICULAR BY MEANS OF:1. THE PROVISION OF SPECIALIST CARE TO CLERGY, RELIGIOUS AND LAITY; AND2. THE PROVISION OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES FOR CLERGY, RELIGIOUS AND LAITY THROUGH SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE, COUNSELLING AND OTHER TRAINING.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED, IN PRACTICE NATIONAL

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Manchester, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that free reserves decreased to £102,420, representing approximately four months' expenditure, down from nine months in the prior year. The trustees consider this level of reserves to be appropriate within the charity's operating model and risk profile, despite a net expenditure of £95,532 for the year. The charity remains solvent with unrestricted funds of £102,420 and is preparing for a planned relocation of its premises.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05477576

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.

• MCDEVITT, Patrick Jeremiah — director, appointed 04/08/2025on trustee list
• BROWNE, Raymond, Most Reverend — director, appointed 15/04/2024on trustee list
• GALLAGHER, Gerard — director, appointed 24/01/2024not on trustee list
• ALLEN, Donna Maria — director, appointed 27/01/2023on trustee list
• O'DOWD, Patrick Joseph — director, appointed 27/11/2020on trustee list
• MULCAHY, Eamonn, Rev — director, appointed 19/07/2019not on trustee list
• LEYDEN, Marguerita Maria — director, appointed 05/11/2013on trustee list
• PASTORE, Andrew — secretary, appointed 01/09/2025

Official officers record.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Donna Allen · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr MARGUERITA LEYDEN
• Most Rev Raymond Browne
• Patrick O'Dowd
• Rev Dr Patrick McDevitt
• Rev Eamonn Mulcahy CSSp

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

Operates in: Ireland · Italy · Scotland · Spain · 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 ST LUKE'S HEALTHCARE FOR THE CLERGY.

• ST LUKE'S HEALTHCARE FOR THE CLERGY income £625k
• ST LUKE'S CHURCH income £980k
• ST LUKE'S COLLEGE FOUNDATION income £224k
• ST LUKE'S HOSPICE income £14.5m
• ST LUKES ADVICE SERVICE income £162k
• TLC - ST LUKE'S income £65k

Side by side with its peers

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