BRYONY HOUSE LIMITED

Registered charity 222915 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Providing care and support for the elderly frail and financial assistance in cases of hardship.

Causes: Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£1.2m
Latest spending
£1.3m
Registered
1963
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure deficit of £240,238 for the year ended 31 March 2023, primarily due to resident fee income being £250,000 under budget. Despite this deficit, the trustees maintain a reserves policy of one year’s operating expenses and the auditor confirmed there are 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

Reserves policy: one year’s operating expenses (held: £904k)
“The trustees consider it necessary and prudent to maintain within the unrestricted General Fund a reserve equivalent to one year’s operating expenses.” — page 6
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Ormerod Rutter Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

Leadership, per the charity’s website

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.

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: Bryony House Limited — Registered, 1 registered location, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 30/01/2020.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

Total income
£24k
Total spending
£1.3m
Reserves (reported)
£62k
Employees
32

Reported reserves equal ~0.6 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (65% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Care Quality Commission ratings

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Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Birmingham City

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£1.2m£1.3m
31/03/2024£1.0m£1.5m
31/03/2023£1.1m£1.3m
31/03/2022£1.2m£1.2m
31/03/2021£1.2m£1.2m

Common questions

Is BRYONY HOUSE LIMITED financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure deficit of £240,238 for the year ended 31 March 2023, primarily due to resident fee income being £250,000 under budget. Despite this deficit, the trustees maintain a reserves policy of one year’s operating expenses and the auditor confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Ormerod Rutter Limited.

Who funds BRYONY HOUSE LIMITED?

Funders whose own accounts filings name BRYONY HOUSE LIMITED as a grant recipient include THE GEORGE CADBURY TRUST (EDWARD CADBURY SECTION).

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BEENSTOCK HOME MANAGEMENT CO. LTD.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
BRYONY HOUSE LIMITED£1.2m—0unclear—no doubt
BEENSTOCK HOME MANAGEMENT CO. LTD FY2025£1.9m—0unclear—no doubt
THE SOUTHEND ON SEA DARBY AND JOAN ORGANISATION LIMITED FY2025£1.2m—0unclear—no doubt
CAMBRIDGE AID FY2025£135k—0unclear—no doubt
HELP IN NEED TODAY FY2025£558k—0unclear—no doubt
BRIGHTON Y M C A FY2025£6.4m——unclear—no doubt

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.