THE MARIE CELESTE SAMARITAN SOCIETY

Registered charity 1187012 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The object of The Society is to provide and administer such relief and aid for patients at, or who have been discharged from The Royal London Hospital as does not fall within the scope of the National Health Service.

Objects

TO PROVIDE RELIEF AND AID TO PATIENTS AT(OR WHO HAVE BEEN DISCHARGED FROM)THE ROYAL LONDON HOSPITAL, WHOSE MEDICAL NEEDS OR REQUESTED MEDICAL ASSISTANCE FALL OUTSIDE OF THE SCOPE OF THE NHS’ REMIT.

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Other Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Tower Hamlets, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £16,531,682, which significantly exceed the trustees' target of holding at least one year's likely outgo in cash or cash equivalents. The trustees report that sufficient funds exist to permit the society to operate in the long term, with no material uncertainties regarding its 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 Barrow LLP. Discloses 4 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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints 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 vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

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.

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

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (97% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (23/12/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• David George Thomas
• Dr Louise Langmead
• Dr Veronica Lilian Coral White
• Mary Mackintosh Denholm
• Neil John Fletcher
• PROFESSOR TREVOR BEEDHAM FRCOG · trustee of 1 other charity
• Timothy James Palmer

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with YORK SAMARITANS.

• YORK SAMARITANS income £45k
• MANCHESTER AND SALFORD SAMARITANS income £145k
• SAMARITANS OF STOKE-ON-TRENT AND NEWCASTLE income £66k
• LADIES' SAMARITAN SOCIETY income £28k
• CENTRAL LONDON SAMARITANS income £319k
• SAMARITANS OF PRESTON AND DISTRICT income £39k

Side by side with its peers

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