ST JOHN'S HOSPITAL CIO

Registered charity 1204929 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Housing for the poor

Objects

(1) THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THE RELIEF OF POVERTY BY THE PROVISION OF, OR SUPPORTING THE PROVISION BY OTHERS OF, SOCIAL HOUSING IN THE FORM OF ALMSHOUSE ACCOMMODATION FOR THOSE IN NEED IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUB-CLAUSE (2) OF THIS CLAUSE (THE ?BENEFICIARIES?) OR FOR SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE BENEFICIARIES IN OCCUPATION OF SUCH ACCOMMODATION AS THE CHARITY TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.(2) THE BENEFICIARIES SHALL BE INDIVIDUALS WHO QUALIFY TO BE ALMSPEOPLE OF THE ALMSHOUSES BEING INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE POOR WIDOWS OR SPINSTERS OF GOOD CHARACTER OF NOT LESS THAN 50 YEARS OF AGE WHO (EXCEPT IN SPECIAL CASES TO BE APPROVED BY THE CHARITY COMMISSION) HAVE RESIDED IN THE AREA OF THE ANCIENT PARISH OF CIRENCESTER FOR NOT LESS THAN FIVE YEARS OR, IN THE EVENT OF VACANCIES THAT CANNOT BE FILLED BY INDIVIDUALS DULY QUALIFIED, MARRIED COUPLES WHO ARE OTHERWISE DULY QUALIFIED.

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

Causes: Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Cotswold, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reports a strong financial position with unrestricted funds totaling £1,083,270, an increase from the previous year. The trustees state the charity remains in a 'strong and sustainable position' despite delays in property registrations and grant awards. The accounts were subject to an independent examination which found no material matters requiring attention.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Homes England. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (26/08/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (26/08/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (26/08/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Christopher Boydell · trustee of 1 other charity
• Clare Marie Cannock · trustee of 2 other charities
• James Paul Gore · trustee of 2 other charities
• Margaret Anne Blumsom · trustee of 2 other charities
• PETER JOHN COTTEY · trustee of 3 other charities
• Rev John Joseph Swanton

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

Operates in: Gloucestershire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ST GORAN CLT LTD.

• ST GORAN CLT LTD income £43k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST JOHN'S WOOD, LONDON income £424k
• JOHN HORNE HOMES income £28k
• JOHN GOLDING HOUSE income £37k
• HOOP LANE TRUST income £50k
• ST LAWRENCE'S HOSPITAL CIO income £170k

Side by side with its peers

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