THE ABBEYFIELD HOYLAKE AND WEST KIRBY SOCIETY LTD

Registered charity 233269 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The provision of care home accommodation for older people in Wirral. We run a care home (non nursing) and annexe with 24 hour care with thirty three rooms in West Kirby. We are affiliated to the Abbeyfield Society nationally.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Society incurred a deficit of £26,445 for the year, primarily due to writing off £114,158 in costs associated with a discontinued capital project. Excluding these exceptional costs, the Society produced a surplus of £87,713, and its free reserves of £3,643,198 significantly exceed the stated policy target of £370,000. The auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Lonsdale & Marsh. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00784499 · Financial health read from its filings

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Ailsa Wright — General Manager (source)
• Natalie Ditzel — Care Manager (source)
• Helen Nile — Activity Coordinator (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.

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.

• DOWNIE, Andrew James — director, appointed 09/03/2026on trustee list
• GOLLINS, Susan Alexandra Lyon — director, appointed 01/02/2026on trustee list
• PIKE, Katharine Jane — director, appointed 18/01/2023on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

4 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (4 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: Abbeyfield Hoylake & West Kirby Society Limited — Registered, 1 registered location, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 21/01/2022.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

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

Reported reserves equal ~32.2 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (96% 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: 0.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew James Downie
• Katharine Jane Pike
• Peter Fletcher
• Susan Alexandra Lyon Gollins

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

Operates in: Wirral

Income and spending

Common questions

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Side by side with its peers

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