MAGDALEN & LASHER CHARITY - OLD HASTINGS HOUSE, CHARITABLE INCORPORATED ORGANISATION

Registered charity 1158933 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MAGDALEN & LASHER CHARITY - OLD HASTINGS HOUSE, CHARITABLE INCORPORATION ORGANISATION, OLD HASTINGS HOUSE; OHH

The provision of residential care on a not-for -profit basis for elderly residents of Hastings in a 59 room care home.

Objects

THE PREVENTION AND RELIEF OF POVERTY AND THE RELIEF OF OLD AGE AMONGST PERSONS LIVING IN OR NEAR THE BOROUGH OF HASTINGS ('BENEFICIARIES') BY THE PROVISIONS AND MAINTENANCE IN HASTINGS OF A CARE HOME COMPRISING THE LAND AND BUILDINGS KNOWN AS OLD HASTINGS HOUSE (OR ANY PROPERTY ACQUIRED IN ITS PLACE) OR BY THE ESTABLISHMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF OTHER FACILITIES FOR ELDERLY PERSONS LIVING IN OR NEAR THE BOROUGH OF HASTINGS OR WHO HAVE A FAMILY OR OTHER CONNECTION WITH HASTINGS.

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a global deficit of £901,202 for the year ended 31 March 2025, driven by the sale of its care home and significant investment impairments. Per the trustees' report, the charity's free reserves totalled £266,418, which the trustees view as a minimum level, while noting that the Magdalen and Lasher Charity General Fund has committed to supporting the charity for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Ad Valorem Audit Services Limited. Discloses 5 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
• 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
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

Reported reserves equal ~5.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• CLIVE SCOTT GALBRAITHchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• ANN WING · trustee of 3 other charities
• Andrew Brian Pope · trustee of 3 other charities
• Cllr James Bacon · trustee of 2 other charities
• Dr Patricia Lock · trustee of 2 other charities
• IAN MICHAEL STEEL · trustee of 4 other charities
• Ian Gallagher · trustee of 2 other charities
• JUDITH ANN ROGERS · trustee of 3 other charities
• John Henry Bilsby · trustee of 2 other charities
• KEITH DONALDSON
• MICHAEL JABEZ FOSTER
• Mark Andrew Boles
• Rev Mathew Jamie David Phipps · trustee of 3 other charities
• SUSAN MARY Phillips

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

Operates in: East Sussex

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE MAGDALEN AND LASHER CHARITY.

• THE MAGDALEN AND LASHER CHARITY income £553k
• MAGDALEN AND LASHER EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION income £305k
• ST ANDREW'S HOUSE income £1.5m
• BAXENDALE CARE HOME income £2.7m
• HOMES OF REST FOR OLD PEOPLE ALSO KNOWN AS RADCLIFFE MANOR HOUSE income £1.2m
• LADY ELIZABETH HASTINGS' ESTATE CHARITY income £684k

Side by side with its peers

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