WINNOCKS AND KENDALLS ALMSHOUSE CHARITY

Registered charity 1158167 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provision of almshouses for older people of Colchester.

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, THE PROVISION OF SOCIAL HOUSING IN THE FORM OF ALMSHOUSE ACCOMMODATION AND ASSOCIATED AMENITIES FOR POOR PERSONS WHO SHALL BE RESIDENT IN COLCHESTER AT THE TIME OF APPOINTMENT.

Area of benefit: COLCHESTER

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

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Colchester, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £486,677, which the trustees consider sufficient to continue achieving its objectives. The accounts are prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified by the auditors. The charity maintains a substantial endowment fund of £6,956,028, primarily comprising property revaluation reserves.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by TC Group. 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (3 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/10/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANNA DANIELL
• Andrew Ellis
• BRIAN TAYLOR
• Carolyn Munson
• Christopher Andrews · trustee of 1 other charity
• JOHN ENFIELD
• SUSAN LENG
• WENDY ALLEN

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

Operates in: Essex

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• WESTMINSTER ALMSHOUSES FOUNDATION income £840k
• ANDREW WINDSOR ALMSHOUSES income £110k
• ANGIERS ALMSHOUSE CHARITY income £33k
• NORMAN ALMSHOUSES CHARITY income £30k
• THE ALMSHOUSE CHARITY OF WYNN ELLIS income £61k
• THE HENRY BOYS' ALMSHOUSES income £68k

Side by side with its peers

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