ST. JOHN'S FOUNDATION EST. 1174

Registered charity 201476 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ST JOHN'S HOSPITAL, ST JOHNS HOSPITAL, THE HOSPITAL OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST WITH THE CHAPEL OF ST MICHAEL ANNEXED, THE HOSPITAL OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST WITH THE CHAPEL OF ST MICHAEL ANNEXED WITH ST CATHERINE'S HOSPITAL

The provision of almshouse accommodation for people resident in Bath and the surrounding area who are over 65 years of age and who are in financial need as well as providing grants and financial support to individuals and organisations within the Bath area for those in need.

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a consolidated operating deficit of £1.28m for the year, driven by challenging trading conditions and planned programme wind-downs. However, the charity holds a significant investment portfolio valued at £98.6m, which generated a net increase in funds of £3.74m after investment gains, ensuring long-term financial sustainability.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 08188066
• Trading subsidiary: ST JOHN'S HOSPITAL TRADING COMPANY LTD Companies House 08632453

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — St John's Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Catharine Brown — CEO (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.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• MEE, Helen — director, appointed 26/06/2025not on trustee list
• BRANIGAN, Alun — director, appointed 01/04/2025not on trustee list
• CRISP, Juliet Katharine — director, appointed 01/04/2025not on trustee list
• BEARMAN, John — director, appointed 01/04/2025not on trustee list
• ZWICKEL, Eric Scott — director, appointed 14/12/2023not on trustee list
• MUSSELWHITE, Madeleine Suzanne — director, appointed 28/09/2023not on trustee list
• DRIVER, Roger John, Rev — director, appointed 16/04/2021not on trustee list
• HAYES, Jeffrey Christopher — director, appointed 31/03/2021not on trustee list
• MACGREGOR, Karen Joan, Dr — director, appointed 18/06/2020not on trustee list

Official officers record.

CQC provider record: St John's Hospital — Deregistered, 2 registered locations, last inspected 23/05/2019.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 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: 18.4% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (11/06/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (25/09/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (25/09/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (25/09/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (25/09/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• St John's Hospital Trustee Limited

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

Operates in: Bath And North East Somerset

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 ST JOHN'S LICHFIELD.

• ST JOHN'S LICHFIELD income £538k
• THE ALMSHOUSE OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST AND ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST income £136k
• HOSPITAL OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST CIO income £218k
• ST JOHN'S HOME income £2.3m
• HOSPITAL OF ST JOHN HEYTESBURY income £369k
• BATH RECREATION LIMITED income £1.3m

Side by side with its peers

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