SOCIETY OF THE HOLY CHILD JESUS CIO

Registered charity 1177555 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Charity aims to support the religious and other charitable works carried on by the Society of the Holy Child Jesus CIO and its members. These activities include education, human and spiritual development, pastoral work, healthcare and the support of activities overseas.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net increase in funds of £1.2 million for the year, driven by significant net investment gains of £4.9 million which offset a net expenditure before gains of £3.6 million. The trustees consider the level of free reserves to be adequate but not excessive, noting that listed investments comprise the key asset and may be subject to significant fluctuation. The charity has total net assets of £115 million, with free reserves of £18.3 million, which the trustees deem within the required policy range of two to three years' expenditure.

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 4 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Pauline Darby — Society leader (source)
• Gifty Abane — Society Leadership Team member (source)
• Susan Igelle — Society Leadership Team member (source)
• Oyidu Okwori — Society Leadership Team member (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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

15 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (3 freehold); recorded price paid £3.8m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: Society of the Holy Child Jesus CIO — Registered, 1 registered location, 2 regulated activities, last inspected 10/12/2019.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~27.2 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (52% 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: 6.7% of total income — above 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).

• Apley Grange: Good (01/02/2020) · CQC record

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (28/03/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sister Monica Anne Matthews SHCJchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• OYIDU CELESTINA OKWORI
• SISTER ANGELA O'CONNOR · trustee of 1 other charity
• SISTER ANNE STEWART
• SISTER SUSAN JENNIFER BULLEN · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sister Carmel Murtagh · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sister Gifty Abane
• Sister Helen Costigane
• Sister Judith Lancaster
• Sister Patricia McDonald

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

Operates in: Chad · Ghana · Kenya · Nigeria · Throughout England And Wales · United States

Income and spending

Common questions

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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
• SOCIETY OF THE SACRED HEART CIO income £2.4m
• HANDMAIDS OF THE HOLY CHILD JESUS. H.H.C.J. income £242k
• CONGREGATION OF THE DAUGHTERS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT CIO income £1.3m
• THE SISTERS OF THE POOR CHILD JESUS income £295k
• THE ENGLISH REGION OF THE DAUGHTERS OF MARY AND JOSEPH CIO income £1.7m

Side by side with its peers

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