SISTERS OF THE CHRISTIAN RETREAT

Registered charity 1174120 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Sisters and the Retreat Team carry out the vision of the Founder, Father Anthony Receveur, in the House of Prayer. We offer Retreats, Spiritual Direction, Supervision and counselling.The Sisters provide personal and spiritual care in parishes and the House of Prayer without any restriction on beneficiaries. The congregation has an obligation to support its members throughout their lives.

Objects

The object of the CIO is the advancement of the Roman Catholic religion through such religious and other charitable work as the charity trustees shall from time to time think fit.

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 · Religious Activities · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £278,900 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in a total funds balance of £11,720,670. The trustees consider the level of unrestricted and designated reserves to be adequate against their policy target of maintaining 3-6 months of expenditure. The independent auditors confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Chariot House Limited. Discloses 5 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
• 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

Property (HM Land Registry)

4 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (4 freehold); recorded price paid £435k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (04/06/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sister ANNE DUNNEchair
• Audrey Hamilton
• Gerard Ellul
• Margaret Mary Buckley
• NICOLA RUTH MASON · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Belgium · Benin · France · Ireland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CONGREGATION OF LA RETRAITE CIO.

• CONGREGATION OF LA RETRAITE CIO income £866k
• THE SOCIETY OF RETREAT CONDUCTORS income £184k
• SISTERS OF THE SACRED HEARTS OF JESUS AND MARY CIO income £2.7m
• SOCIETY OF THE SACRED CROSS income £336k
• THE CHARITY OF THE SISTERS OF CHRIST CIO income £315k
• THE RELIGIOUS OF ST ANDREW income £158k

Side by side with its peers

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