Common questions about The Orders of St John Care Trust's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is The Orders of St John Care Trust a good charity? +
The Orders of St John Care Trust scores 87 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 100% of its spending goes to charitable activities (3-yr avg) and its accounts are up to date. That reflects how transparent and financially healthy it looks on paper — it does not measure the real-world impact of its work, so treat it as one factor alongside the cause you care about. CharityCompare never tells you where to donate.
Is The Orders of St John Care Trust a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists The Orders of St John Care Trust as a registered charity (charity number 1048355). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1048355&subId=0. Check the current entry and the identity of anyone requesting money. Registration does not verify a particular appeal; Clarity Score summarises filing transparency, not programme impact.
What is The Orders of St John Care Trust's charity number? +
The Orders of St John Care Trust's charity number is 1048355. Check that number on the official register (Charity Commission, OSCR or CCNI) or this CharityCompare profile before you donate — scammers sometimes reuse real numbers on fake appeals.
What is The Orders of St John Care Trust's charity rating? +
The Orders of St John Care Trust scores 87 out of 100 on CharityCompare (4 stars — Good). The Clarity Score (method v1.1) sums four pillars from UK regulator filings: Accountability & Transparency (40 pts), Financial Health (30), Financial Efficiency (20), and Community Support (10). Stars use the same bands as those labels — 90+ is 5★ Exceptional. It is not an impact ranking.
Does The Orders of St John Care Trust have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for The Orders of St John Care Trust. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (none flagged on this profile). For formal complaints about a charity, contact the Charity Commission, OSCR, CCNI or the Fundraising Regulator as appropriate.
How much of my donation reaches The Orders of St John Care Trust? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 100% of The Orders of St John Care Trust's total spending went to charitable activities (3-yr avg across disclosed years). That is the closest official figure to "how much of your donation reaches the cause" — it is an average across all spending in the filing, not a pound-by-pound breakdown of an individual gift.
What are The Orders of St John Care Trust's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 0% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 0% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at The Orders of St John Care Trust. The Orders of St John Care Trust's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 108 employees paid more than £60,000, including 13 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £200,001–£250,000 (1 employee). Individual salaries, including the chief executive's, are disclosed in the trustees' annual report rather than on the register.
How much income does The Orders of St John Care Trust receive? +
The Orders of St John Care Trust reported £234m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are The Orders of St John Care Trust's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2026-01-19). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is The Orders of St John Care Trust based? +
The Orders of St John Care Trust's registered contact address is in Lincoln (LN6 3LQ). It tells the regulator it operates in England and Wales, with a focus on homelessness.
How much is The Orders of St John Care Trust's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. The Orders of St John Care Trust's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 108 employees paid more than £60,000, including 13 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £200,001–£250,000 (1 employee). Charities normally disclose the chief executive's pay, or the pay of their highest-paid staff, in the remuneration note of the trustees' annual report and accounts.
Where does The Orders of St John Care Trust's money come from? +
The Orders of St John Care Trust reported £234m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were charitable activities £233m (100%), investments £716k (0%), donations and legacies £332k (0%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £55k.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to The Orders of St John Care Trust? +
The register records The Orders of St John Care Trust as registered with HMRC for Gift Aid, so a UK taxpayer can usually add 25p to every £1 they give by making a Gift Aid declaration.
Are The Orders of St John Care Trust's trustees paid? +
The Orders of St John Care Trust's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports that one or more trustees received payments or other benefits (payments for acting as a trustee). Charity law allows this only in limited circumstances; the trustees' annual report should explain it.
What was The Orders of St John Care Trust previously called? +
The register lists this previous name for The Orders of St John Care Trust: Orders of St John Trust Care Homes.
When was The Orders of St John Care Trust registered as a charity? +
The Orders of St John Care Trust was entered on the register on 28 July 1995. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 03073089).
How does CharityCompare score The Orders of St John Care Trust? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in The Orders of St John Care Trust's regulator filings: Accountability & Transparency (40 points — filing history, trustees, policies), Financial Health (30 — reserves, income trend, debt), Financial Efficiency (20 — cause spend and fundraising cost, on a graduated scale) and Community Support (10 — volunteer-to-staff ratio). An open statutory inquiry scores 0. The score measures reporting on paper, not programme impact. CharityCompare is free for donors, takes no commission on donations, and scores cannot be bought.
How often is this page updated? +
This profile was last updated on 6 September 2026 from the latest UK regulator data available to CharityCompare, and The Orders of St John Care Trust's most recent accounts cover 2025. Scores and figures refresh whenever we re-ingest the register, so the page reflects our latest data pull rather than a one-off review.