THE ORDER OF ST BENEDICT AT ALTON ABBEY

Registered charity 229216 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE ORDER OF ST BENEDICT

To enable the Community to live a monastic life according to the rule of St Benedict and provide a retreat guesthouse

Objects

FOR THE PURPOSES OF THE ORDER OF ST. BENEDICT AND THE MAINTENANCE OF DESTITUTE AND INFIRM MERCHANT SEAMEN HOUSED AT THE ABBEY ALTON HAMPSHIRE

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.

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Torridge, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £105,026 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £3,724,683 to £3,619,657. The trustees maintain a reserves policy to hold at least three months of unrestricted payments, which equated to £37,569, and the general fund and cash at bank exceeded this figure at year-end. The charity also designated funds equal to the net value of fixed assets and the market value of the investment portfolio, totaling £3,552,639.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Nigel Pricechair · trustee of 4 other charities
• Brother ANDREW EDMOND ST GILES JOHNSON
• DOM Anselm Shobrook OSB
• DOM Anthony Witherspoon
• DOM Timothy Bavin OSB
• Rev Jonathan Edward Evans · trustee of 3 other charities
• THE RT REVD DOM GILES HILL OSB · trustee of 1 other charity
• The Reverend Canon Timothy David Pike · trustee of 1 other charity
• Timothy Patrick Abraham · trustee of 6 other charities

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

Operates in: 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 ST BENEDICT'S CENTRE.

• ST BENEDICT'S CENTRE income £162k
• ST MILDRED'S ABBEY, MINSTER, KENT income £645k
• THE ENGLISH BENEDICTINE ORDER OF OULTON ABBEY NEAR STONE, STAFFS income £3.3m
• THE PRINKNASH ABBEY CHARITIES income £932k
• ABBEY ACCESS CENTRE income £900k
• MOUNT ST BERNARD ABBEY TRUSTEES REGISTERED income £1.4m

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