Society of the Sacred Cross

The Society provides and maintains a Retreat/Guest house which is open to anyone whether Christian or not.Educational groups visit for days or weekends and occasional residential retreats are offered.The sisters spend two hours each day in personal prayer and sixteen and a half hours each week in public worship.

In the charity's own words, from the register.

In Wales

• Monmouthshire

Area of benefit in its governing document: Wales

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £335,518 and spent £367,082.

Figures as the charity reported them to the Charity Commission. Staff and volunteer numbers are only asked of charities with income over £10,000. A year with no row was not reported.

Separate measures from the charity's own returns and accounts, each with its year. Read them together: no single measure says how well a charity is run.

Income over time

Down 9%, from £369,857 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £335,518 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 109% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025. It spent more than its income in 3 of the 5 years shown.

From the annual returns the charity filed with the Charity Commission. The largest funder comes from its accounts, read by AI.

Government grants in the year ending 31 March 2025: Not reported. Government contracts: Not reported.

From the charity's annual return to the Charity Commission, which asks every charity with income over £10,000 how much came from government grants and contracts. It does not say which part of government. These totals are separate from the named funders read from its accounts and the grants published on 360Giving, and are not added to them.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 1 grant to this charity, worth £1,750, awarded in 2023.

Only funders that publish their grants to 360Giving are included, and many do not. These are amounts funders awarded, which can differ from what the charity received in a given year, so they are shown apart from the accounts figures above.

5 trustees run the charity.

• Katharine Ann HallChairAppointed 3 May 2019
• Elizabeth Allen-williamsAppointed 27 October 2025
• Peter LeaAppointed 27 October 2025
• Rev Tony James HaltonAppointed 12 June 2025
• Rosalind Mary HawkenAppointed 27 October 2025

Trustees are responsible in law for the charity. Names are as they appear on the public register.

Of the last 5 annual returns that were due, 5 arrived by the deadline.

Charities with income over £10,000 send an annual return within 10 months of their year end, and those over £25,000 also send their accounts. Smaller charities only update their income and spending on the register. The dates are when the Commission received each document.

Charity number

1135334

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

31 March 2010

Governing document

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 22/03/2010 as amended on 08 Jan 2020 as amended on 31 Mar 2020

Company number

07198198This company on OpenEconomyThis company on Companies House

Website

www.tymawrconvent.orgAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Monmouthshire

• Register details, income, spending, trustees and filing dates: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

• OpenCouncil: Monmouthshire Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Monmouthshire's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Sir Fynwy Torfaen