SISTERS OF THE HOLY FAMILY

Registered charity 233108 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Support the religious and other charitable works carried out by the members of the Sisters of the Holy Family including Social & Pastoral Work and Overseas MInistry in West Africa - Senegal, Ivory Coast, North Africa ÔÇô Egypt, Middle East ÔÇô Lebanon, South America ÔÇô Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Asia ÔÇô Philippines, India.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ELIGIOUS AND OTHER CHARITABLE WORKS CARRIES ON IN ENGLAND OR WALESBY THE SCOEETY,OR, IF THE SCOIETY CEASES TO EXIST OR TO CARRY ON SUCH WORKS IN ENGLAND OR WALES, LAWFUL CHARITABLE PURPOSES CONNECTD WITH THEADVANCEMENT OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC REGIGION.

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: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that total unrestricted reserves increased to £28.0m, with £7.6m held as general funds, which is above the trustees' target of two to three years' expenditure. The charity reports a net income of £1.34m for the year, driven by significant investment gains, while total expenditure remained stable at £1.13m.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Richard Place Dobson. 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
• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~81.3 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 10.7% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• SISTER IRENA MADEJchair
• SISTER BRIGITTE SOLANGE DOMERGUE
• SISTER KATHLEEN O'DONNELL
• SISTER MARY BROHAN
• Sister Mary Josephine Harney

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

Operates in: France · India · Ireland · Philippines · Throughout England

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with TRUST PROPERTY HELD IN CONNEXION WITH THE SISTERS OF THE HOLY FAMILY OF BORDEAUX.

• TRUST PROPERTY HELD IN CONNEXION WITH THE SISTERS OF THE HOLY FAMILY OF BORDEAUX income £1.5m
• THE SISTERS OF THE HOLY FAMILY OF NAZARETH (GOOD SHEPHERD PROVINCE) income £260k
• MISSIONARY SISTERS OF OUR LADY OF AFRICA CIO income £236k
• SISTERS OF THE SACRED HEARTS OF JESUS AND MARY CIO income £2.7m
• THE SISTERS OF ST. JOSEPH OF PEACE CIO income £2.1m
• FMDM FOUNDATION CIO income £5.1m

Side by side with its peers

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