5 February 2024
Christie Group
plc
("Christie Group" or the "Company")
Christie & Co care team
successfully facilitates charitable trust merger
Christie Group plc (CTG.L), is pleased to report that its
specialist business property adviser,
Christie & Co, has assisted
in the merger of two charitable trusts, operating in the social
care sector.
The
Orders of St John Care Trust (OSJCT) has announced its merger with
The Fremantle Trust, in a transaction where Christie & Co's
market-leading Care team brokered the combination of the two
charities.
Established in 1991, OSJCT is a charitable trust which
supports nearly 3,000 older people, employs just over 4,400
colleagues, and manages over 500 volunteers in 61 care homes and 8
extra housing schemes across Gloucestershire, Lincolnshire,
Oxfordshire, Suffolk, West Sussex and Wiltshire.
The
Fremantle Trust, also a charitable trust, has a significant
presence in Buckinghamshire, supporting over 750 people and
employing over 1,300 colleagues across multiple
facilities.
Richard
Lunn, Managing Director - Care at Christie & Co, commented: "It
was a pleasure to facilitate the merger of these two
well-established, well-respected charitable trusts whose shared
values will no doubt create a brilliant partnership, making a true
difference to the lives of the people in their care."
Dan
Prickett, Christie Group plc Chief Executive, commented: "This
transaction illustrates and reinforces Christie & Co's
longstanding and established reputation across the UK's 'third
sector', which has resulted in numerous positive outcomes for our
clients and the communities in which they operate over many years,
and which we are excited about continuing to support moving
forwards."
Enquiries:
Christie Group
plc
Dan
Prickett
+44 7885 813 101
Chief
Executive
Richard
Lunn
+44 7768 646 989
Manager
Director - Care, Christie & Co
Shore
Capital
Patrick
Castle / Iain
Sexton
020 7408 4090
Nominated Advisor and Broker
Notes to
Editors:
Christie Group plc, quoted on AIM, is a leading professional
business services group with 37 offices across the UK and Europe,
catering to its specialist markets in the hospitality, leisure,
healthcare, medical, childcare & education and retail
sectors.
Christie Group operates in two complementary business
divisions: Professional & Financial Services (PFS) and Stock
& Inventory Systems & Services (SISS). These divisions
trade under the brand names: PFS - Christie & Co, Pinders,
Christie Finance and Christie Insurance: SISS - Orridge, Venners
and Vennersys.
Tracing
its origins back to 1846, the Group has a long-established
reputation for offering valued services to client companies in
agency, valuation services, investment, consultancy, project
management, multi-functional trading systems and online ticketing
services, stock audit and inventory management. The diversity of
these services provides a natural balance to the Group's core
agency business.
For more
information, please go to
https://www.christiegroup.com/