ST LUKE'S OXFORD

Registered charity 293522 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ST LUKE'S HOSPITAL, ST LUKES HOSPITAL-OXFORD

Long term nursing care, palliative care, respite care and post-operative rehabilitation for sick, disabled and older persons regardless of their means.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity returned a surplus on Unrestricted Funds of £204,450 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total unrestricted reserves of £5,853,540. The trustees report that cash resources stood at approximately three months of operating costs, which is below their stated policy target of six months, though they note this is due to loan repayments. The auditor confirmed the financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis 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 James Cowper Kreston Audit. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01989868

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — St Luke's Hospital Oxford (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Richard Burden — Chief Executive (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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Oxfordshire County Council — “Our services are supported by Oxfordshire County Council” (source page)

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.

• JONES, Gareth Alan, Dr — director, appointed 17/12/2025on trustee list
• BARNES, Fiona Louise — director, appointed 26/09/2025not on trustee list
• HUGHES, Jane Mary, Dr — director, appointed 26/09/2025on trustee list
• MCGRIGOR, Tessa Louise — director, appointed 02/10/2024on trustee list
• RITCHIE, Nicholas King — director, appointed 27/03/2024on trustee list
• POLITO, Simon William — director, appointed 27/03/2024on trustee list
• NORMAN, Juliet, Lady — director, appointed 24/06/2015on trustee list
• CANDY, Graham Paul — director, appointed 10/12/2014on trustee list
• PONSONBY, Luke Arthur — director, appointed 25/06/2014on trustee list
• HOHENAUER, Karl Gunther Stanislaw — secretary, appointed 15/09/2025

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: St. Luke's Oxford — Registered, 1 registered location, 3 regulated activities, last inspected 23/10/2020.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~14.5 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 (94% 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: 0.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Care Quality Commission ratings

CQC inspection ratings for services run by a provider matching this charity’s name (matched by name; verify provider identity on CQC’s site).

• St Luke's Hospital - Oxford: Good (16/09/2020) · CQC record

Trustees · trustee networks

• Simon Politochair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Dr Gareth Jones
• Dr Jane Hughes
• Fiona Louise Barnes she/her
• Graham Candy
• Lady Juliet NORMAN
• Luke Arthur Ponsonby · trustee of 4 other charities
• Nicholas Ritchie
• Tessa Louise McGrigor

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

Operates in: Oxfordshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

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 LUKE'S CHESHIRE HOSPICE.

• ST LUKE'S CHESHIRE HOSPICE income £8.7m
• ST LUKE'S HOSPICE (BASILDON AND DISTRICT) LIMITED income £16.1m
• OXFORD HEALTH CHARITY income £236k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST LUKE THE EVANGELIST YORK income £135k
• CALVARY CHAPEL OXFORD LIMITED income £145k
• ST LUKE'S HOSPICE income £14.5m

Side by side with its peers

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