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Registered charity · Surrey

Southern Oaks Retirement Living

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £2.4m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

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
General Charitable Purposes, Accommodation/housing
Where
Croydon, Sutton, Surrey
Website
www.abbeyfieldsouthernoaks.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Southern Oaks Retirement Living
Registered
1966

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2.4m£2.2m
  • 2024£7.5m£2.1m
  • 2023£1.8m£1.9m
Earlier years
  • 2022£5.6m£5.5m
  • 2021£7.0m£6.9m
Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY THE PROVISION AND MANAGEMENT OF HOUSING, ACCOMMODATION AND ASSISTANCE FOR THE RELIEF AND CARE OF OLDER PEOPLE SUFFERING FROM THE DISABILITIES OF OLD AGE OR OTHERWISE BEING IN NEED IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION) BY PROVIDING AND MAINTAINING (OR ASSISTING IN PROVIDING AND MAINTAINING) HOUSES AND HOMES FOR SUCH OLDER PEOPLE AND PROVIDING (OR ASSISTING IN PROVIDING) AMENITIES OR SERVICES FOR THE BENEFIT OF SUCH OLDER PEOPLE, AND FOR OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES BENEFICIAL TO THE COMMUNITY.

Board analysis for researchers

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.

9 trustees on the board

5.4y median 4y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

13.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

8
company-linked trustees

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

Accommodation/housing 9General Charitable Purposes 9

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 8Finance 1Other services 1

Gaps to watch

  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

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.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£2.4m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
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.

80.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 11.7 in 2021

25 from 18 in 2021
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.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
247308
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION DATED 21ST AUGUST, 1962.AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 28/03/2015AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 13 JUN 2018 as amended on 12 Nov 2024 as amended on 16 Jul 2025 as amended on 24 Apr 2025
Companies House
Company number 00734705 · Active
Contact on the register
02083940050 · admin@southern-oaks.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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