SUTTON'S HOSPITAL IN CHARTERHOUSE

Registered charity 207773 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Charity provides accommodation and care for defined categories of men and women (the Brothers) in its historic buildings in Charterhouse Square in the City of London. It also provides financial support to Charterhouse School and has the power to operate a museum.

Objects

OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY(1) IN THIS CLAUSE, “BENEFICIARIES” MEANS SINGLE PERSONS (WHO CAN BE WIDOWS, WIDOWERS OR UNMARRIED) OF GOOD CHARACTER WHO ARE IN NEED OF ASSISTANCE AND WHO, UNLESS THE GOVERNORS OTHERWISE DECIDE IN ANY INDIVIDUAL CASE: (A) ARE NOT LESS THAN 60 YEARS OF AGE; AND(B) ARE, OR HAVE BEEN, OFFICERS IN ANY OF THE ARMED FORCES OF THE CROWN, CLERGY, MERCHANTS OR PERSONS ENGAGED IN PUBLIC SERVICE OR IN TRADING, PROFESSIONAL, AGRICULTURAL OR SIMILAR OCCUPATIONS.(2) THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE: (A) THE RELIEF OF BENEFICIARIES BY THE PROVISION OF ACCOMMODATION AND CARE OR IN SUCH OTHER WAYS AS THE GOVERNORS THINK FIT; AND(B) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION BY THE PROVISION OF FINANCIAL SUPPORT TO THE SCHOOL (BUT ONLY IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ‘USE OF INCOME’ CLAUSE 29(1)(C) OF THE PRINCIPAL SCHEME). (3) THE BENEFICIARIES WHO ARE APPOINTED TO ACCOMMODATION IN THE HOSPITAL MAY BE KNOWN AS “BROTHERS” AND/OR SUCH OTHER NAME OR NAMES AS THE GOVERNORS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE (AND IN THIS SCHEME ARE REFERRED TO AS “RESIDENT/S”).

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED.

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income decreased marginally to £5.5m while total expenditure increased to £5.8m, resulting in a net movement in funds of £1.281m. The charity holds total net assets of £121.3m, comprising significant endowment and restricted funds, with the auditor confirming no material uncertainties regarding going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Moore Kingston Smith LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission. 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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events 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 policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Shomik Datta and Luke Decker appear in the Supreme Court in Lowe v The Governors of Sutton’s Hospital in Charterhouse cornerstonebarristers.com · 03/11/2026
• Depositing Common Sense: Lowe v The Governor’s of Sutton’s Hospital in Charterhouse cornerstonebarristers.com · 02/04/2024

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: CARTHUSIA LIMITED Companies House 07612570 · Financial health read from its filings
• Registered company of the charity Companies House RC000207

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Carley Roberts — Director of Health & Wellbeing (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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Heritage Lottery Fund — “Donors Heritage Lottery Fund” (source page)
• Helical plc — “Heritage Lottery Fund Helical plc” (source page)
• Garfield Weston Foundation — “Helical plc Garfield Weston Foundation” (source page)
• The Portal Trust — “Garfield Weston Foundation The Portal Trust” (source page)
• The Mercers’ Company — “The Portal Trust The Mercers’ Company” (source page)
• The Lyon Family Charitable Trust — “The Mercers’ Company The Lyon Family Charitable Trust” (source page)
• The City Bridge Trust — “The Lyon Family Charitable Trust The City Bridge Trust” (source page)
• The Monument Trust — “The City Bridge Trust The Monument Trust” (source page)
• John Lyon’s Charity — “The Monument Trust John Lyon’s Charity” (source page)
• Christian Levett — “John Lyon’s Charity Christian Levett” (source page)
• The Wolfson Foundation — “Christian Levett The Wolfson Foundation” (source page)
• The Schroder Foundation — “The Wolfson Foundation The Schroder Foundation” (source page)
• Charles Hayward Foundation — “The Schroder Foundation Charles Hayward Foundation” (source page)
• Sir Siegmund Warburg’s Voluntary Settlement — “Charles Hayward Foundation Sir Siegmund Warburg’s Voluntary Settlement” (source page)
• Allchurches Trust Limited — “Sir Siegmund Warburg’s Voluntary Settlement Allchurches Trust Limited” (source page)

CQC provider record: Governors of Sutton's Hospital in Charterhouse — Registered, 2 registered locations, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 29/06/2022.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~16.7 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (59% 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: 31.2% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Caroline Abrahams
• Caroline Rolfe · trustee of 1 other charity
• DAVID FARNSWORTH
• Emmett Steed-Mundin MSc CMgr
• Flora Lyon · trustee of 2 other charities
• Sufina Ahmad
• Vincent Thomas Keaveny CBE · trustee of 3 other charities
• William Naunton

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

Operates in: Surrey · Throughout London

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ST JOHN'S HOSPITAL.

• ST JOHN'S HOSPITAL income £178k
• ANNIE SUTTON AND HOULT MEMORIAL HOUSES income £173k
• THE STOREHOUSE income £404k
• SUTTON BAPTIST CHURCH income £151k
• THE BOURTONS COMMUNITY HALL income £34k
• THE CHARTERHOUSE income £327k

Side by side with its peers

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