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Registered charity · London

The Priory of England and the Islands of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of ST. John of Jerusalem

  • 5 trustees
  • Income £99m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Religious Activities, Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Throughout England
Website
www.sja.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
ST. John Ambulance
Registered
1999

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£99m£101m
  • 2024£107m£108m
  • 2023£108m£124m
Earlier years
  • 2022£120m£120m
  • 2021£114m£107m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 15% · Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE PRIORY ARE TO ENCOURAGE THE SPIRITUAL AND MORAL STRENGTHENING OF MANKIND AND TO ENCOURAGE AND PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF PERSONS IN SICKNESS, DISTRESS, SUFFERING OR DANGER AND FOR THAT PURPOSE TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN AND CARRY OUT WITHIN AND FROM THE TERRITORY THE OBJECTS AND PURPOSES OF THE ORDER AS SET OUT IN STATUTE 4 (SEE PARAGRAPH 7 OF RULES)

Grants received

84 grants · £3,785,717 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £1,654,391 (33 grants)
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport · £807,021
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £375,200 (4 grants)
  • Garfield Weston Foundation · £358,500 (3 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £154,000

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Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

3.2y median 3y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
7.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (4)

Portfolio (1)

2
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 5Religious Activities 5The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 4General Charitable Purposes 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Health and social care 3Property 1

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£106.9m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2023 and 2024
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

10.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 3.8 in 2020

1418 from 1414 in 2020
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.
17%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1077265
Status
Registered
Governing document
RULES ADOPTED 23RD OCTOBER 1999 AS AMENDED 29 SEPTEMBER 2006AS AMENDED ON 29 JAN 2018
Companies House
Company number 03866129 · Active
Contact on the register
0370 0104 950 · companysecretaryoffice@sja.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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