The Susanna Initiative

Registered charity 1186758 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as Kezia Giving, METHODIST MINISTERS' HOUSING SOCIETY, Samuel Living · also registered in Scotland as SC050661 (OSCR)

(1)Providing, within the UK, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands, housing, or financial assistance towards the housing needs of, and any associated amenities upon terms appropriate to their means, for: Methodist presbyters and deacons of limited means, their widows, widowers and dependents and further provision/assistance to reduce need(2) Such other charitable purposes as the trustees determine

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net operational surplus of £190k, resulting in an overall deficit of £96k after accounting for unrealised gains and losses on investments and property revaluations. The balance sheet position is described as robust with net assets of £190m, comprising a mix of programme-related housing investments, investment properties, and long-term financial investments. The trustees are satisfied that free reserves of £12m exceed the minimum coverage required by their reserves policy.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Forvis Mazars LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Mairi Johnstone — Chief Executive (source)
• Rachel Dawson — Director of Strategy and Planning (source)
• Richard Miller — Director of Finance, Investments and ICT (source)
• Alex Campbell — Chair (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)

5 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (4 freehold); recorded price paid £688k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~18.7 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 2.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alexander Campbellchair
• Abigail Labbett
• JOHN CHRISTOPHER APPLETON
• Kate Louise Andrews · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rev Paul Martin · trustee of 1 other charity
• Richard John Myers · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sharon Jean Green

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

Operates in: Guernsey · Isle Of Man · Jersey · Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF THE PRIORY CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL LEOMINSTER.

• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF THE PRIORY CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL LEOMINSTER income £482k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST MARK, BILTON income £132k
• THE LEADERS OF WORSHIP AND PREACHERS HOMES income £3.4m
• THE METHODIST CHURCH YORKSHIRE WEST DISTRICT income £1.5m
• SISTERS OF CHARITY OF ST JEANNE ANTIDE CIO income £2.6m
• UNITED METHODIST CHURCH (UK) income £1.5m

Side by side with its peers

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