The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 6th September 2026

The Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of ST John of Jerusalem (the Order of ST John)

Registered charity 235979 Registered since 1964

Operates: Throughout London, Antigua And Barbuda, Australia, Barbados, Canada, Cyprus, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, Grenada, Guyana, Israel

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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.

12 trustees on the board

2.2y median 1y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

6.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (2)

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 12General Charitable Purposes 12The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 12

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 4Hospitality 1Other services 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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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£2.4m latest income · income exceeded spending 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.

5.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 66.2 in 2020

11 from 8 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.

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Connected through a shared trustee

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.stjohninternational.org
Emailinfo@orderofstjohn.org
Phone02072513292
AddressThe Order of St. John, 3 Charterhouse Mews, LONDON, EC1M 6BB

Finances

£2,506,900 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£1,263,688£1,161,131
2022£1,883,943£1,490,776
2023£3,559,513£1,528,963
2024£2,397,351£1,896,825
2025£2,506,900£2,564,788

What it does

What

General Charitable PurposesEducation/trainingThe Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of LivesOther Charitable Purposes

Who

Children/young PeopleThe General Public/mankind

How

Makes Grants To OrganisationsProvides Human ResourcesActs As An Umbrella Or Resource Body

Charitable objects

TO ENCOURAGE AND PROMOTE ALL WORKS OF HUMANITY AND CHARITY FOR THE RELIEF OF PERSONS IN SICKNESS, DISTRESS, SUFFERING OR DANGER, WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF RACE, CLASS OR CREED.

Governing document: ROYAL CHARTER, 1955 AS AMENDED BY SUPPLEMENTAL CHARTER DATED 6TH MARCH 1974 AND STATUTES AS AMENDED ON 9TH FEBRUARY 1993, 2ND NOVEMBER 1994, 23RD NOVEMBER 1995 AND 21ST JULY 1999 AND 17 DECEMBER 2002 (BUT NOT TAKING EFFECT UNTIL 1 JANUARY 2004) as amended by an Order in Council on 25 May 2018

Trustees (12)

12trustees
72median age
1aged 70+

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