THE COMMUNITY OF ST FRANCIS

Registered charity 286615 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We are a group of women living in community under vows of poverty, chastity and obedience. Our works include hospitality for retreats and other purposes, counselling, spiritual direction, preaching, leading quiet days, participation in missions and both voluntary and part-time paid work for other agencies. The pay supports the work of the community in out different houses.

Objects

To build up a body of men and women who, accepting Christ as their Lord and Master, will seek to follow him in the way of renunciation and sacrifice as an act of witness and for the loving service of his brothers and sisters in the world.

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.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £348,761 against total net assets of £2,107,681. The trustees report confidence in the charity's ability to continue as a going concern, noting that a large proportion of income is derived from pensions, although this is expected to decrease over time.

Automated summary of the FY2025 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
• 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
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.1 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other (90% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.0%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• SR BEVERLEY CSFchair
• SR CHRIS JAMES CSF
• SR GINA CSF
• SR LIZ CSF
• SR MAUREEN CSF
• SR SUE CSF
• Sister Judi Gardner CSF
• Sr Joyce CSF

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

Operates in: Gloucestershire · Leicestershire · South Korea · Southwark

Income and spending

Common questions

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 THE BROTHERS OF THE FIRST ORDER OF THE SOCIETY OF ST FRANCIS.

• THE BROTHERS OF THE FIRST ORDER OF THE SOCIETY OF ST FRANCIS income £1.3m
• THE COMMUNITY OF ST JOHN BAPTIST GENERAL PURPOSES CIO income £234k
• THE FRANCISCAN MISSIONARIES OF ST. JOSEPH income £3.3m
• THE DAUGHTERS OF CHARITY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL CIO income £2.7m
• CONGREGATION OF THE DAUGHTERS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT CIO income £1.3m
• THE FRIENDS OF WHITEFRIARS OXFORD FUND income £607k

Side by side with its peers

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