SISTERS OF THE CROSS AND PASSION CIO

Registered charity 1185348 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CP SISTERS, CROSS AND PASSION SISTERS, SISTERS OF THE CROSS AND PASSION

The charity has been set up to continue the work of the unincorporated charity of the Sisters of the Cross and Passion and will engage in a broad range of charitable activities: education, health care, pastoral, spiritual, social care and financial help in the UK and Ireland. In all our activities we will try to respond where the need is greatest.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, THE PROVISION OF RELIEF, ASSISTANCE AND COMFORT TO THE SICK, THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION, AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE TEACHINGS OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH IN THE LIGHT OF THE PRECEPTS CONTAINED IN THE SCHEDULE, OR SUCH OTHER PURPOSES AS ARE LAWFULLY AUTHORISED FROM TIME TO TIME BY THE CONSTITUTIONS OF THE CONGREGATION, BY SUCH MEANS AS ARE BEST SUITED TO THE TIMES AND THE PLACE IN WHICH THE PROVISION IS TO BE MADE.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bradford, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £4,046,788 for the year, resulting in total reserves of £58,447,446. The trustees consider the level of free reserves, amounting to £6,444,809, to be adequate and in excess of their stated policy target of approximately £6.2 million. The financial position is supported by significant investment assets and unrestricted funds, despite the high costs associated with caring for an aging congregation.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Saffery LLP. 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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

CQC provider record: Sisters of the Cross and Passion CIO — Deregistered, 1 registered location, last inspected 09/05/2022.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.4 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 30.0% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 3.7%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sister Margaret O Regan C.P.chair
• Sister Claire Antoinette Dawson C.P. · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sister Eithne Donoghue C.P. · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sister Marie McNeice C.P. · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sister Maureen McNally C.P. · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Australia · Botswana · Ireland · Northern Ireland · Throughout England And Wales · Vietnam

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• Sister Claire Antoinette Dawson C.P. — trustee here and at SISTERS OF THE CROSS AND PASSION
• Sister Eithne Donoghue C.P. — trustee here and at SISTERS OF THE CROSS AND PASSION
• Sister Marie McNeice C.P. — trustee here and at SISTERS OF THE CROSS AND PASSION
• Sister Maureen McNally C.P. — trustee here and at SISTERS OF THE CROSS AND PASSION

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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• SISTERS OF THE CROSS AND PASSION income £252k
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• SISTERS OF THE SACRED HEARTS OF JESUS AND MARY CIO income £2.7m
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• THE SISTERS OF THE POOR CHILD JESUS income £295k
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Side by side with its peers

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