THE CHARITY OF THE REGULAR CANONESSES OF THE ORDER OF THE HOLY SEPULCHRE OF OUR LORD

Registered charity 1167869 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CANONISSARUM REGULARIUM SANCTI SEPULCRI

To support the social and pastoral work of the sisters within the local community andbeyond. This includes work within the Order of Canonesses of the Holy Sepulchre in theinternational context of sister Communities in Europe and Africa;To provide and support education and personal and faith development; andTo provide for members of the Community.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE SUCH EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE OBJECTS AND PURPOSES, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD AS MAY BE CARRIED ON, PROMOTED, ADVANCED OR SUPPORTED BY THE COMMUNITY AS THE CHARITY TRUSTEES WITH THE APPROVAL OF THE PRIORESS MAY IN THEIR DISCRETION THINK FIT.

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 decrease in funds of £1,801,887 for the year ended 30 September 2025, primarily driven by a £1.2 million endowment donation and investment losses. Despite this decrease, the Trustees consider the free reserves of £2,091,776 to be adequate and consistent with their policy of maintaining two to three years of ongoing expenditure. The auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Buzzacott Audit LLP. Discloses 6 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
• 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
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Property (HM Land Registry)

10 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (9 freehold); recorded price paid £2.2m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~12.1 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 11.4% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (22/06/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• SISTER MOIRA O'SULLIVANchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Bronwen Pitt Dr · trustee of 1 other charity
• Christine Mary Webb
• JOHN GRAHAM TOMLINS · trustee of 2 other charities
• Jane Swadling
• Maire Grainne Brigid Gilmore
• Sister GABRIELLE MARY HORTON · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Essex

Income and spending

Common questions

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with TRUST PROPERTY HELD IN CONNEXION WITH THE SISTERS OF THE HOLY FAMILY OF BORDEAUX.

• TRUST PROPERTY HELD IN CONNEXION WITH THE SISTERS OF THE HOLY FAMILY OF BORDEAUX income £1.5m
• THE LIEUTENANCY OF ENGLAND AND WALES OF THE EQUESTRIAN ORDER OF THE HOLY SEPULCHRE OF JERUSALEM income £528k
• TRUSTEES OF THE CHARITY OF THE BERNARDINE SISTERS income £573k
• SOCIETY OF THE SACRED HEART CIO income £2.4m
• TRUST PROPERTY HELD ICW THE ENGLISH PROVINCE OF THE CONGREGATION OF THE SISTERS OF THE PRESENTATION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY income £3.8m
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF HOLY SEPULCHRE CAMBRIDGE income £1.3m

Side by side with its peers

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