SOCIETY OF THE HOLY CROSS (ALSO KNOWN AS SOCIETAS SANCTAE CRUCIS)

Registered charity 297891 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Supporting members in all things spiritual and temporalReligious activitiesEducation and trainingRelief of povertyGeneral charitable purposes

Objects

I. TO STRENGHTEN AND CONSOLIDATED THE SPIRITUAL LIFE OF ITS MEMBERS ACCORDING TO CATHOLIC BELIEF AND PRACTICE; II. TO MAINTAIN AND EXTEND THE CATHOLIC FAITH AND DISCIPLINE, AND TO DEFEND TRUTH AGAINST ERROR. III. TO UNITE ITS MEMBERS IN A SPECIAL BOND OF MUTUAL CHARITY ARISING FROM THEIR COMMON FAITH.

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 Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds total £229,236, which exceeds the trustees' stated policy target of maintaining reserves of at least six months' worth of monies. The charity reported a net decrease in total funds due to expenditure exceeding income, though this was partly attributed to purchases for resale intended to yield a surplus in the long term.

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 5 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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev Carl Richard Schaefer SSCchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Canon Philip Jonathan O'Reilly SSC · trustee of 2 other charities
• Fr Giles Anthony Christopher Orton SSC
• Fr Jeremy Patrick Sheehy SSC · trustee of 4 other charities
• Fr John Kenneth Tristan Eldridge SSC
• Fr John Philip Warner SSC · trustee of 3 other charities
• Fr Mark Gilbert SSC · trustee of 1 other charity
• Fr Mark North SSC · trustee of 2 other charities
• Fr Nicolas Spicer SSC · trustee of 4 other charities
• Fr Robin Dominic Edwin Jones · trustee of 2 other charities
• Fr Simon Peter John Clark SSC
• Rev Peter Richard Henderson Edwards SSC · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

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