ST. BARNABAS SOUTHWOLD

Registered charity 1157793 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

ST BARNABAS IS A REGISTERED CHARITY ESTABLISHED IN 1897. THE OBJECTS OF ST BARNABAS, SET OUT IN THE CONSTITUTION ARE "TO PROVIDE RESIDENTIAL CARE, SHELTERED ACCOMMODATION AND/OR OTHER CARE AND ASSISTANCE FOR PERSONS WHO ARE ELDERLY AND/OR OF LIMITED MEANS AND IN NEED OF SUCH CARE AND ASSISTANCE AS THE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE CONSIDER APPROPRIATE HAVING REGARD TO THE RESOURCES OF ST BARNABAS."

Objects

TO PROVIDE RESIDENTIAL CARE, SHELTERED ACCOMMODATION AND/OR OTHER CARE AND ASSISTANCE FOR PERSONS WHO ARE ELDERLY AND/OR DISABLED AND/OR OF LIMITED MEANS AND IN NEED OF SUCH CARE AND ASSISTANCE AS THE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE CONSIDER APPROPRIATE HAVING REGARD TO THE RESOURCES OF ST. BARNABAS.

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 FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £300,324 for the year ended 31 December 2024, largely driven by legacy income. The trustees confirm that the charity holds adequate resources to continue operations for the foreseeable future, with unrestricted funds totaling £3,441,593. The charity maintains a reserves policy target of six months' operating costs, which it currently exceeds.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Ensors. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints 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

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: St Barnabas Southwold — Registered, 1 registered location, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 20/01/2020. CQC record

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~8.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 1.0% 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).

• St Barnabas Southwold: Good (11/02/2020) · CQC record

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (11/11/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (24/03/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• NIGEL JOHNSONchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Andrew Clive Roberts
• Brendan Patrick Sarsfield
• Brian Duncan
• David John Gaffney · trustee of 2 other charities
• Diane Brown
• Elizabeth Kristin Tarris
• Lucy Annabell Turvill
• Lucy Turvill
• Mark William Clark
• Sarah Wallington Smith
• Sean Mclaughlin

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

Operates in: Suffolk

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with COLLEGE OF ST BARNABAS.

• COLLEGE OF ST BARNABAS income £2.4m
• THE ST BARNABAS SOCIETY income £922k
• ST BARNABAS COUNSELLING CENTRE income £175k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST BARNABAS, PIMLICO, LONDON income £136k
• BARNABAS FELLOWSHIP OF CHURCHES TRUST income £154k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST BARNABAS, WINCHESTER income £199k

Side by side with its peers

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