INSTITUTE OF OUR LADY OF MERCY

Registered charity 290544 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE INSTITUTE OF OUR LADY OF MERCY

The Charity's activities are carried on by individual Sisters acting within parish communities and the wider community. It runs and supports Catholic schools and care homes. The Trustees care for their own Sisters who are retiring from active work. The Charity also makes grants to beneficiaries and assists other charities with similar objects.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Accommodation/housing · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £39.1m for the year, primarily driven by a £33.9m impairment of tangible fixed assets. Despite this deficit, the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £102.9m, which the trustees note are sufficient to mitigate the current deficit through the planned sale of surplus properties. The financial statements were prepared on a basis other than going concern due to the transfer of assets and liabilities to a new CIO entity.

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 3 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: not a going concern (FY2024) → no going-concern doubt (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

CQC provider record: Institute of Our Lady of Mercy — Deregistered, 8 registered locations, last inspected 13/09/2023.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

CQC provider record: Institute of Our Lady of Mercy CIO — Registered, 2 registered locations, 1 regulated activity.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~68.4 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (36% 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: 1.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Catherine Christina Groden · trustee of 1 other charity
• SISTER MARY BERNADETTE HOLMES · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sister Bernadette Patricia Roche · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sister Ita Christina O'Donnell · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sister Lynda Irene Dearlove · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Ireland · Kenya · Peru · Romania · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SISTERS OF MERCY, GRAVESEND, KENT.

• SISTERS OF MERCY, GRAVESEND, KENT income £637k
• INSTITUTE OF THE RELIGIOUS OF THE SACRED HEART OF MARY IMMACULATE VIRGIN income £1.3m
• Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary, Immaculate Virgin, EAP income £1.3m
• SISTERS OF CHARITY OF OUR LADY MOTHER OF MERCY SCMM income £431k
• TRUST PROPERTY HELD IN CONNEXION WITH THE SISTERS OF THE HOLY FAMILY OF BORDEAUX income £1.5m
• SISTERS OF THE SACRED HEARTS OF JESUS AND MARY CIO income £2.7m

Side by side with its peers

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