THE RUGBY FREE CHURCH HOMES FOR THE AGED

Registered charity 214479 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BILTON HOUSE

Bilton House aims to provide an excellent standard of residential and dementia care within a caring Christian ethos, for elderly and frail people who can no longer fully care for themselves.

Objects

TO MAKE PROVISION FOR THE WELFARE, COMFORT, TREATMENT AND RELIEF IN SICKNESS AND OLD AGE OF AGED POOR PERSONS BELONGING TO OR CONNECTED WITH OR RECOMMENDED BY ANY OF THE FREE CHURCHES OF RUGBY OR ITS SURROUNDING DISTRICT, AND IN PARTICULAR FOR THOSE PURPOSES TO PROVIDE AND MAINTAIN HOMES FOR SUCH AGED AND POOR PERSONS AT THE BILTON HOUSE PREMISES AND ANY OTHER PREMISES WHICH MAY FROM TIME TO TIME BE ACQUIRED BY OR ON BEHALF OF THE CHARITY.

Area of benefit: RUGBY AND DISTRICT

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a net surplus of £98,635 and total unrestricted reserves (General Fund and Care Fund) of £785,756. The trustees maintain a reserves policy targeting a general bank balance of 5% to 8% of annual expenditure, which was met with a cash balance of £226,198. The independent auditors confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability 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 Atkinson Finch & Co. Discloses 5 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
• 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

CQC provider record: The Rugby Free Church Homes For The Aged — Registered, 1 registered location, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 10/01/2020.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.5 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% 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: 0.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Care Quality Commission ratings

CQC inspection ratings for services run by a provider matching this charity’s name (matched by name; verify provider identity on CQC’s site).

• Bilton House: Good (09/03/2026) · CQC record

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev ROBERT JOHN MALONEYchair
• Barbara Griffith
• David Knight
• HILARY COX
• Judith Lewis
• Marieluise Horne
• Rosemary Pugh · trustee of 1 other charity
• STANLEY RAYMOND BIRD

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

Operates in: Warwickshire

Income and spending

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE CHRISTIAN CARE TRUST.

• THE CHRISTIAN CARE TRUST income £681k
• HOMES OF REST FOR OLD PEOPLE ALSO KNOWN AS RADCLIFFE MANOR HOUSE income £1.2m
• EOTHEN HOMES LIMITED income £6.5m
• FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY income £22.0m
• Boulton Cottage Homes Trust income £163k
• BAXENDALE CARE HOME income £2.7m

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