BRISTOL CHARITIES

Registered charity 1109141 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Almshouse provision, day services provision and development and grant giving.The Trustees have agreed that the prime objective can be summed up as "Enhancing Quality of Life for Older People in our Communities"

Objects

TO ADVANCE SUCH PURPOSES AS ARE CHARITABLE UNDER THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE,CITY OF BRISTOL, NORTH SOMERSET, AND SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bristol, City of, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £819,928 for the year ended 31 March 2026, driven primarily by investment valuation gains of £1,474,279. Per the trustees' report, free unrestricted reserves stood at £3,220,884, which significantly exceeds the stated reserves policy target of £706,000. The trustees confirmed that the charity has adequate resources to continue operating on a going concern basis.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Bishop Fleming Audit Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Homes England. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Queen Camilla brings festive cheer to Bristol charities bbc.co.uk · 14/12/2023

Property (HM Land Registry)

6 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (5 freehold); recorded price paid £2.5m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~11.1 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (58% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANDREW STREETchair · trustee of 11 other charities
• Andrew Guise Mennell MSc MCIH
• Anita Nkolisa Woodburn
• Be McCarroll
• Christian James Porter
• Emma-Jane Louise Dalley
• Karen Rachel Jones
• Keith Anthony Hicks
• Olivia Lettice Spencer BSc RIBA
• PAULA CARDWELL
• Rachel Mary Howell
• Robert James Yeandle · trustee of 1 other charity

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Bath And North East Somerset · Bristol City · North Somerset · South Gloucestershire

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• ANDREW STREET — trustee here and at FEEDING BRISTOL

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with FOUNDATION MATTERS.

• FOUNDATION MATTERS income £366k
• THE BIRMINGHAM SETTLEMENT income £2.4m
• BRISTOL AND ANCHOR ALMSHOUSE CHARITY income £336k
• ST RICHARDS HOSPICE FOUNDATION income £10.6m
• METROPOLITAN BENEFIT SOCIETIES' ALMSHOUSES income £284k
• THE ALBRIGHTON TRUST LIMITED income £146k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.