BUCKINGHAM ALMSHOUSES AND WELFARE CHARITY

Registered charity 1161308 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To relieve people who have a strong local connection to Buckingham, Gawcott, Lenborough or Bourton ("the area") who are in need by providing amshouses and items, services or facilities calculated to relieve the need of such persons.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ("THE OBJECTS") ARE:- (1) TO RELIEVE PEOPLE RESIDENT FOR AT LEAST TWO YEARS IN BUCKINGHAM, GAWCOTT, LENBOROUGH AND BOURTON ("THE AREA") WHO ARE IN NEED, BY PROVIDING SPECIALLY DESIGNED OR ADAPTED HOUSING OR ALMSHOUSES, AND ITEMS, SERVICES OR FACILITIES CALCULATED TO RELIEVE THE NEED OF SUCH PERSONS.(2) TO RELIEVE FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, SICKNESS, AND POOR HEALTH AMONG PEOPLE IN THE AREA.(3) TO MAKE GRANTS OR PAY FOR FACILITIES FOR PEOPLE IN NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS RESIDENT IN THE AREA.

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 · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Buckinghamshire, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £541,680, which the trustees aim to keep positive as income from residents is expected to exceed unavoidable expenditure. The charity has a bank loan secured against its properties, with total liabilities of £161,269, resulting in net assets of £541,680. The independent examiner confirmed that accounting records were kept and the accounts accord with those records.

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.

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
• 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

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 31/03/2024 (received 25/03/2025, 53 days after the 31/01/2025 due date); year ending 31/03/2023 (received 29/02/2024, 29 days after the 31/01/2024 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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

4 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (4 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (16/03/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• STEPHEN ROY TOWNSENDchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Fran Davies · trustee of 1 other charity
• Heather Haydock · trustee of 2 other charities
• Jane Mordue
• Jon Harvey · trustee of 1 other charity
• Lisa O'Donoghue
• PAUL STUART HIRONS B ENG
• Ray Gibbs
• Rev WILLIAM OLIVER CLINTON PEARSON-GEE
• Richard William Hughes · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Buckinghamshire

Income and spending

Common questions

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