ROLLESTON ALMSHOUSE CHARITY

Registered charity 1158564 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

1. Maintenance and provision of 6 almshouses in Rolleston on Dove for the benefit of residents of the Parishes of Rolleston and Anslow in Staffordshire.2. Relief of financial hardship of the residents of the Parishes of Rolleston and Anslow in Staffordshire.3. Provision for the maintenance of the clock of St Mary's Rolleston Parish Church and the bridges over Rolleston brook.

Objects

1. THE MAINTENANCE AND PROVISION OF ALMSHOUSE ACCOMMODATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT OF THOSE IN CHARITABLE NEED INCLUDING THOSE IN FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AND WHO ARE RESIDENT IN THE PARISHES OF ROLLESTON AND ANSLOW IN STAFFORDSHIRE.2. THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, EITHER GENERALLY OR INDIVIDUALLY, OF THE RESIDENTS OF THE PARISHES OF ROLLESTON AND ANSLOW IN STAFFORDSHIRE BY MAKING GRANTS OF MONEY OR PROVIDING OR PAYING FOR ITEMS, SERVICES OR FACILITIES. 3. THE MAINTENANCE OF THE CLOCK OF ST MARY’S ROLLESTON PARISH CHURCH AND THE BRIDGES OVER ROLLESTON BROOK FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT OF THE RESIDENTS OF THE PARISHES OF ROLLESTON AND ANSLOW IN STAFFORDSHIRE.

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 · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: East Staffordshire, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total net assets increased to £267,106 from £247,846 in the prior year, driven by a surplus of £12,084. The trustees report that unrestricted reserves of £10,029 are marginally above their stated policy target of one year's estimated ordinary annual expenditure, indicating adequate liquidity to meet ongoing obligations.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

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

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2022 (received 05/08/2024, 279 days after the 31/10/2023 due date); year ending 31/12/2021 (received 23/01/2023, 84 days after the 31/10/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (12/01/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (12/01/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (12/01/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (12/01/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• STEPHEN SANDERSONchair
• ANGELA GILLESPIE
• Robert Nisbet Houston
• Rose Denise Tomlinson
• Sally Jane Whitty
• Sandie Jane Reader
• Simon David Appleby

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

Operates in: Staffordshire

Income and spending

Common questions

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