SISTERS OF CHARITY OF ST PAUL THE APOSTLE

Registered charity 211200 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q50812859 · also registered in Scotland as SC038528 (OSCR)

To be the support or advancement by lawful charitable means of charitable work for the time being carried on by the Congrgation & the advancement of the Roman Catholic Religion.

Objects

FOR THE SUPPORT OR ADVANCEMENT BY LAWFUL CHARITABLE MEANS OF ANY CHARITABLE WORK FOR THE TIME BEING CARRIED ON BY THE CONGREGATION AND IF AT ANY TIME THE CONGREGATION CEASES TO EXIST OR CEASES TO CARRY ON CHARITABLE WORK THEN FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIGION BY SUCH LAWFUL CHARITABLE MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES OR A MAJORITY OF THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL

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 · Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Birmingham, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net movement in funds of £(588,571) for the year ended 31 December 2025, a significant improvement from the £(3,858,063) deficit in the prior year. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £973,085, which is below the stated policy target of maintaining six months of projected expenditure when combined with the designated Mission and Donation fund. The trustees assessed that the charity will continue to provide its public benefit during the next 12 months and beyond, confirming the appropriateness of the going concern basis.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Dains Audit Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission; Financial Conduct Authority; Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). 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 policy and procedures
• 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
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

CQC provider record: Sisters of Charity of St Paul the Apostle — Deregistered, 2 registered locations, last inspected 16/05/2022.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.6 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (45% 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: 0.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• SISTER ANN SULLIVANchair
• MAIRE MARGARET LYNCH
• MARY CHRISTINE HAYES
• SISTER CECILIA BORDEA
• SISTER EILEEN THERESE BROWNE · trustee of 1 other charity
• SISTER TERESA ANNE MURPHY

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

Operates in: Ireland · Romania · Scotland · South Africa · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SISTERS OF ST PAUL DE CHARTRES.

• SISTERS OF ST PAUL DE CHARTRES income £122k
• THE SOCIETY OF ST PAUL THE APOSTLE income £1.9m
• THE PIOUS SOCIETY OF THE DAUGHTERS OF ST PAUL income £1.2m
• ST. PAUL'S, FURZEDOWN income £132k
• SISTERS OF THE CROSS AND PASSION CIO income £18.4m
• SISTERS HOSPITALLERS OF THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS CIO income £8.8m

Side by side with its peers

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