SISTERS OF MERCY, GRAVESEND, KENT

Registered charity 200376 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as Sisters of Mercy, Registered Charity, Sisters of Mercy, St Josephs Convent, Sisters of Mercy, St Josephs Convent, Registered Charity, Sisters of Mercy.

The charity's principal activities are:- Education through the support of St Josephs school- Healthcare through the support of the congregational members in their old age- Social and pastoral through community based programmes and local parish work

Objects

1. RESIDENCES FOR THE MEMBERS OF THE CONGREGATION. 2. TRAINING SCHOOLS FOR MEMBERS OF THE CONGREGATION AND FOR PERSONS PREPARING TO BECOME OF THE CONGREGATION. 3. SCHOOLS FOR THE GENERAL EDUCATION BOTH RELIGIOUS AND SECULAR OR RELIGIOUS OR SECULAR. 4. HOSPITALS OR REFUGES OR HOMES FOR THE SICK POOR. 5. REST OR RETREAT HOUSES FORM MEMBERS OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH DESIRING INSTRUCTION IN THE DOCTRINES OF RELIGION. 6. GENERALLY AS PLACES FOR THE EXERCISE OF ANY SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSE OR PURPOSES AS IN THE OPINION OF THE MOTHER SUPERIOR MAY BE CONDUCIVE TO THE ADVANCEMENT OR MAINTENANCE OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIGION IN GREAT BRITAIN.

Area of benefit: NOT PRECISELY DEFINED

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 · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted general funds of £6,045,369, which the Trustees consider represents approximately fourteen years of operating expenditure. This significantly exceeds the charity's stated reserves policy target of holding funds representing approximately two to three years of expenditure. The charity reports a net income increase and adequate resources 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 Xeinadin Audit Limited. 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 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
• 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

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

Reported reserves equal ~206.7 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (61% 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: 3.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (16/04/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• SISTER ANNE O' CONNELLchair
• SISTER ELIZABETH O' HARA
• SISTER MAGDALENE REILLY
• SISTER PAUL FARRAR
• Sister Augustine Day
• Sister Dolores Nicholl
• Sister Helen Gallagher

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

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

Common questions

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Charities like this

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
• THE SISTERS OF THE POOR CHILD JESUS income £295k
• INSTITUTE OF OUR LADY OF MERCY income £11.9m
• SISTERS OF THE SACRED HEARTS OF JESUS AND MARY CIO income £2.7m
• THE CHARITY OF THE SISTERS OF THE RESURRECTION income £413k
• THE COMMUNITY OF ST JOHN BAPTIST GENERAL PURPOSES CIO income £234k

Side by side with its peers

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