THE ROYAL FOUNDATION OF ST KATHARINE

Registered charity 223849 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE ROYAL FOUNDATION OF ST KATHARINE, IN RATCLIFFE

The object of the Royal Foundation is the advancement of the Christian religion through worship, hospitality and service, and the promotion of Christian values. The Foundation provides and maintains a Christian conference and retreat centre in East London, provides a place of sanctuary, peace and reflection for worship and serves local communities through outreach, support and engagement.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION, THROUGH WORSHIP, HOSPITALITY AND SERVICE, AND THE PROMOTION OF CHRISTIAN VALUES, WITH A VIEW TO DEVELOPING AND CO-ORDINATING CHRISTIAN ACTIVITIES OF EVERY DESCRIPTION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT. IN PURSUIT OF THE OBJECT, AND FOR THE BENEFIT OF THOSE OF ALL FAITHS AND NONE, THE ROYAL FOUNDATION WILL: A) PROVIDE AND MAINTAIN A CHRISTIAN CONFERENCE AND RETREAT CENTRE IN EAST LONDON (WITH EXTENSION ELSEHWERE IF WORK SO REQUIRES); B) PROVIIDE A PLACE OF SANCTUARY, PEACE AND REFLECTION, IN WHICH ALL MAY WORSHIP; C) SERVE LOCAL COMMUNITIES THROUGH OUTREACH, SUPPORT AND ENGAGEMENT; AND D) UNDERTAKE SUCH OTHER EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES AS THE COURT MAY IN ITS DISCRETION DETERMINE.

Area of benefit: EAST END OF LONDON

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a trading deficit of £330,516 and a net movement in funds of £1,245,667, driven by investment losses and asset write-offs. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves of £230,920 are below the stated policy target of three months of operating costs, though the trustees consider the going concern basis appropriate due to planned restructuring and a forecast return to a balanced budget in 2026/27.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Saffery LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2024) to "below" (FY2025).
• Going concern: no going-concern doubt (FY2024) → going-concern doubt noted (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed 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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• Social media 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.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• The Venerable Roger Preece — Master (source)
• Raj Puranik — General Manager (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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.7 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (55% 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: 34.8% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Peter Grigson
• DAVID SWANNEY
• Diana Jane Banks
• Dr JOY PATRICIA HINSON PHD
• GEOFFREY WILLIAM RICHARDS
• JOHN JAMES O'BRIEN · trustee of 4 other charities
• Mary Cicely Florence Monfries · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rev Roger Martin Howell Preece
• Sheryl Arlene Frances LAWRENCE FCA
• Sophia Louisa Densham CVO

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF CHRIST AND THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY, ROCHESTER.

• CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF CHRIST AND THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY, ROCHESTER income £2.7m
• FOUNDATION MATTERS income £366k
• THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST MARTIN, LEICESTER income £1.7m
• THE PRESENCE CHARITABLE TRUST income £191k
• KINGDOM FAITH CHURCH income £1.1m
• THE CORPORATION OF THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF CHRIST IN LIVERPOOL income £4.6m

Side by side with its peers

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