THE SISTERS OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT

Registered charity 229394 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE TOWERS CONVENT SCHOOL

The Towers Convent School exists to provide education for children through its Senior, Junior and Nursery departments, many of whom would not be able to attend more expensive independent schools. The school employs 65 full and part time staff. The School aims to be an active part of the wider community.-There were 264 pupils including 26 part-time nursery pupils.

Objects

FOR SUCH PURPOSES OF THE SAID COMMUNITY WHICH ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES ARE CHARITABLE.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that total reserves stood at £3,845,750, with unrestricted funds of £3,232,742. The trustees report that these assets are available and adequate to fulfil the charity's obligations, noting that designated funds for the Aged Sisters are sufficient for future requirements. Despite a net expenditure for the year, the charity maintains a strong balance sheet with tangible assets valued at over £2.2 million.

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.

• 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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2020)

Reported reserves equal ~6.0 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 7.1 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (82% 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 (3.0%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• SISTER CATHERINE MURPHY
• SISTER MARY ANDREW
• SISTER MARY PATRICK

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

Operates in: West Sussex

Income and spending

Common questions

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE TOWER HOUSE SCHOOL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION.

• THE TOWER HOUSE SCHOOL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £3.3m
• ST JOSEPH'S CONVENT SCHOOL income £302k
• HANDMAIDS OF THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS (REGENTS PARK, LONDON, AND CHRISTCHURCH, HANTS ) income £4.8m
• THE SACRED HEARTS SISTERS 1983 CHARITABLE FUND income £10.4m
• CONVENT OF THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS income £187k
• TAUNTON SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL CHARITY income £30.5m

Side by side with its peers

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