JAMES HIRONS

Registered charity 1161904 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To provide and maintain one or more homes for persons in need being elderly or convalescing after illness or accident

Objects

1.1 The Objects of the Charity are for the public benefit: 1.1.1 to relieve elderly people who are in need, by providing housing and such items, services or facilities as are calculated to relieve the needs of such persons; and1.1.2 to relieve financial hardship, sickness and poor health amongst elderly people.

Area of benefit: THE AREA OF BENEFIT SHALL MEAN AN AREA WITHIN A 100 MILES RADIUS OF THEHOME WHICH IS SITUATED AT 53 LILLINGTON ROAD LEATNINGTON SPA IN THE COUNTY OFWARWICKSHIRE.

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 reported a net expenditure of £68,159 for the year, with total income of £1,352,660 against total expenditure of £1,425,034. The trustees confirm that unrestricted reserves of £1,375,137 are at an adequate level to provide a buffer, noting that reserves are maintained in excess of six months of expenditure. The charity continues to operate on a going concern basis, supported by a substantial investment portfolio and increased occupancy rates.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Burgis & Bullock. 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
• 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
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 08966275

What the charity says about itself (2024/25)

From its own voluntary annual review / impact report — the charity’s account of its work, distinct from the statutory accounts analysed above.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Allan Fairweather — Home Manager (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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.

• DRYDEN, Gerry — director, appointed 02/09/2025on trustee list
• MACE, John — director, appointed 02/09/2025on trustee list
• STEVENS, Anne — director, appointed 16/07/2024on trustee list
• SAWDON, Nicola Jane — director, appointed 16/05/2023on trustee list
• BEAL, Barbara Helen — director, appointed 15/03/2022on trustee list
• GIVENS, Andrew Dudley — director, appointed 03/10/2019on 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: James Hirons — Registered, 1 registered location, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 07/07/2021.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~11.6 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (91% 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: 1.5% 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).

• James Hirons Care Home: Good (05/08/2021) · CQC record

Trustees · trustee networks

• Barbara Bealchair
• Andrew Dudley Givens
• Anne Stevens
• Dr Isabella Moore · trustee of 1 other charity
• Gerry Dryden
• John MACE
• Nicola Jane Sawdon

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

Operates in: Warwickshire

Income and spending

Common questions

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 THE JAMES CHARITIES.

• THE JAMES CHARITIES income £519k
• THE ALEXANDRA HOMES income £220k
• THE BICKHAM HOME income £1.2m
• THE CARRINGTON CHARITABLE TRUST income £115k
• ST CHRISTOPHER'S HOMES income £3.3m
• EOTHEN HOMES LIMITED income £6.5m

Side by side with its peers

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