CONVENT OF THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS

Registered charity 220594 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

A sister was deputy at a school, retired Sept 10 but helping there voluntarily. Help is given to parishes. Rooms are available to organisations that provide services to the general public and for religious meetings and discussion groups.Accommodation to students studying provides income to the charity. This is free for foreign priests. Worship open to the public each day in the chapel.

Objects

The Present Trustees do and the Trustees shall stand possessed of the trust property and of the income of the trust property UPON TRUST to apply the same as capital or income for such charitable purposes as shall advance the religious and other charitable work carried on or supported by the members of the Society as the Trustees with the approval of the Superior shall from time to time think fit and if at any time the Society shall cease to exist or such members shall cease to carry on religious or other charitable work then for such lawful charitable purposes connected with the advancement of the Roman Catholic religion as the Trustees shall decide AND IT IS HEREBY DECLARED that no part of the trust property need be retained or shall be treated as permanent endowment within the meaning of the Charities Act 1960.

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.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £5,241,900, which the trustees consider sufficient to maintain the charity as a going concern. The charity holds a reserves policy target of three to six months' expenditure, a level the trustees confirm has been maintained throughout the year. Financial health is supported by significant investment assets and a net increase in funds for the year.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• SISTER Annick Edwards
• SISTER JENNIFER BEAR
• SISTER Marie Claude Levasseur

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

Operates in: Oxfordshire

Income and spending

Common questions

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• SISTERS OF THE SACRED HEARTS OF JESUS AND MARY CIO income £2.7m
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• SOCIETY OF THE SACRED CROSS income £336k
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• Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary, Immaculate Virgin, EAP income £1.3m

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