SOCIETY OF THE SACRED CROSS

Registered charity 1135334 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Society provides and maintains a Retreat/Guest house which is open to anyone whether Christian or not.Educational groups visit for days or weekends and occasional residential retreats are offered.The sisters spend two hours each day in personal prayer and sixteen and a half hours each week in public worship.

Objects

2.1 THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE DOCTRINES ANDPRINCIPLES OF THE CHURCH IN WALES BY:2.1.1 THE PROVISION AND MAINTENANCE OF A RETREAT/GUESTHOUSE;2.1.2 THE PROMOTION AND MAINTENANCE OF PUBLIC WORSHIP;2.1.3 THE PROMOTION OF RELIGIOUS AND SPIRITUAL TEACHING.

Area of benefit: WALES

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity made an unrestricted loss of £111,964 before net investment losses, resulting in a total net expenditure of £33,862 for the year. Per the trustees' report, free reserves excluding fixed assets and designated funds totalled £1,339,417, which the trustees aim to maintain at a minimum of six months of expenditure. The auditor confirmed 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 Walter Hunter & Co Limited. 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 policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07198198

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.

• LEA, Peter Evans — director, appointed 27/10/2025on trustee list
• HALTON, Tony James, The Reverend — director, appointed 12/06/2025on trustee list
• HALL, Katharine Ann — director, appointed 03/05/2019on trustee list
• POPE, Kirstie Jane — secretary, appointed 28/11/2019

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.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (15/11/2011) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Katharine Ann Hallchair
• ELIZABETH ALLEN-WILLIAMS
• PETER LEA · trustee of 1 other charity
• ROSALIND MARY HAWKEN
• Rev Tony James Halton · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Monmouthshire

Income and spending

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