Two Charities Under One Order, Two Very Different Balance Sheets

This article records tradition as it has been passed down and reported. Its sources are not yet part of the atlas's verified catalogue.

The St John of Jerusalem Eye Hospital Group's trustees' annual report and accounts for the year ended 31 December 2024 record total income of 13,917,000 pounds sterling against total expenditure of 10,427,000 pounds sterling, a surplus of roughly 3.5 million pounds sterling on income that comfortably outpaced spending for the year.

That surplus sits beside a structural fact worth reading alongside it: the Eye Hospital Group is a wholly owned corporate subsidiary of the same Order of St John that operates St John Ambulance, yet it files its own separate accounts with its own separate income and expenditure, rather than appearing as a line item inside the larger charity's books. The two bodies' 2024 figures could hardly look more different: St John Ambulance's accounts show spending running slightly ahead of income on a budget nearly eight times the size, while the Eye Hospital Group's show income running comfortably ahead of spending on a budget built around hospital operations across Jerusalem, Hebron, Anabta and Gaza City rather than national first aid training and event cover. Sharing a parent order does not mean sharing a balance sheet, and the two charities' own filed accounts are what shows that plainly.