THE MOST VENERABLE ORDER OF THE HOSPITAL OF ST JOHN OF JERUSALEM (THE ORDER OF ST JOHN)

Registered charity 235979 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q1465984 · Wikipedia · also known as THE ORDER OF ST JOHN

The Order of St John is a major international charity, accredited to the United Nations, whose organisations- together widely known as St John - provide first aid, health care and support services in over 35 countries around the world. The Order's charitable work is carried out by the St John Eye Hospital in Jerusalem and St John Establishments worldwide- with volunteers and staff of over 300,000.

Objects

TO ENCOURAGE AND PROMOTE ALL WORKS OF HUMANITY AND CHARITY FOR THE RELIEF OF PERSONS IN SICKNESS, DISTRESS, SUFFERING OR DANGER, WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF RACE, CLASS OR CREED.

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: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Other Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that net assets increased to £9,843,759, with unrestricted general reserves of £882,113, which the Trustees consider to be within their target range of six to nine months of annual expenditure. The charity reported a net movement in funds of £317,112, driven by significant grant income and investment property revaluations, while total expenditure rose to £2,564,788. The Trustees confirm the charity has adequate resources to continue operations for at least 12 months 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 Buzzacott Audit LLP. 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
• 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.

What the charity says about itself (2024)

From its own voluntary annual review / impact report — the charity’s account of its work, distinct from the statutory accounts analysed above.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Order of St John (matched by registered charity number).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~4.1 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (52% 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: 12.3% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Archbishop Emeritus Sir David Moxon
• Cameron Oxley
• Datuk See Ming Lai
• Dr Michel C Dore
• Hannah Richards
• John Macaskill · trustee of 2 other charities
• Laurie Anderson
• Professor Mark Raymond Compton AM
• Rosalind Smith
• Simon Aeneas Mackintosh
• Sir Andrew John Cash OBE
• Thomas Budd · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Antigua And Barbuda · Australia · Barbados · Bermuda · Canada · Cyprus · Dominica · Eswatini · Fiji · Ghana · Gibraltar · Grenada

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ST. JOHN OF JERUSALEM EYE HOSPITAL GROUP.

• ST. JOHN OF JERUSALEM EYE HOSPITAL GROUP income £14.0m
• THE PRIORY OF ENGLAND AND THE ISLANDS OF THE MOST VENERABLE ORDER OF THE HOSPITAL OF ST. JOHN OF JERUSALEM income £98.8m
• ST. JOHN OF JERUSALEM EYE HOSPITAL income £4.8m
• THE PRIORY FOR WALES OF THE MOST VENERABLE ORDER OF THE HOSPITAL OF ST JOHN OF JERUSALEM income £8.1m
• THE ASSOCIATION OF BRITISH MEMBERS OF THE SOVEREIGN MILITARY HOSPITALLER ORDER OF ST. JOHN OF JERUSALEM OF RHODES AND OF MALTA income £1.4m
• THE HOSPITAL OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST AND OF ST ANNE IN OKEHAM income £1.2m

Side by side with its peers

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