HOME OF COMFORT

Registered charity 1163224 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The management of a nursing home for the sick, providing accommodation, personal and nursing care for elderly people in Portsmouth.The provision of grants to those without funds to support their own care.The Home of Comfort is a CIO which took on the activities of Home of Comfort for Invalids (registration number 202191) as at January 2020.

Objects

The relief of those in need by reason of age, ill health or terminal illness by such means as providing a nursing home and such other services and facilities as the charity trustees may from time to time determine. The charity trustees shall give preference to beneficiaries who are or who were formerly ordained or lay ministers of the Church of England or other workers connected with the Church of England.

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 · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £265,716 for the year, resulting in a decrease in unrestricted reserves from £665,381 to £399,665. The trustees confirm that reserves are sufficient to manage the current period and continue operations, with no material uncertainties identified regarding going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by MC Audit Limited. Discloses 3 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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• Volunteer management

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: Home of Comfort — Registered, 1 registered location, 3 regulated activities, last inspected 18/12/2019.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (100% 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: 0.1% 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).

• Home of Comfort Nursing Home: Requires improvement (18/06/2026) · CQC record

Trustees · trustee networks

• Margaret Susan Smychair
• David Day
• Rev WILLIAM GILES HARRIS-EVANS
• Russell Thomas Lawson
• SALLY KING

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

Operates in: Portsmouth City

Income and spending

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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 PORTSMOUTH AND DISTRICT FRIENDLY SOCIETIES' HOMES.

• PORTSMOUTH AND DISTRICT FRIENDLY SOCIETIES' HOMES income £106k
• ST. TERESA'S HOME CIO income £1.7m
• TURNER HOME income £4.8m
• PETWORTH COTTAGE NURSING HOME income £2.2m
• ST CHRISTOPHER'S HOMES income £3.3m
• HOMES OF REST FOR OLD PEOPLE ALSO KNOWN AS RADCLIFFE MANOR HOUSE income £1.2m

Side by side with its peers

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