HURST CONSOLIDATED CHARITY

Registered charity 1177503 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Charity maintains four almshouse properties and grounds to a comfortable living standard for its residents. The Charity has 20 apartments across three locations, two sites in St Nicholas Hurst and one in Twyford.Two of the buildings are Grade II listed C17 brick buildings, one is a 1960s terrace of bungalows and the fourth is purpose-designed terrace completed in 2019.

Objects

1) THE MAINTENANCE AND PROVISION OF ALMSHOUSE ACCOMMODATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT OF THOSE IN CHARITABLE NEED INCLUDING THOSE IN FINANCIAL HARDSHIP WHO LIVE IN THE ANCIENT PARISH OF HURST IN BERKSHIRE AND ADJACENT PARISHES. 2) THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, EITHER GENERALLY OR INDIVIDUALLY, OF THE RESIDENTS OF THE ANCIENT PARISH OF HURST IN BERKSHIRE AND ADJACENT PARISHES BY MAKING GRANTS OF MONEY OR PROVIDING OR PAYING FOR ITEMS, SERVICES OR FACILITIES.

Area of benefit: LOCAL

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 · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state a surplus of £23,770 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total net assets increasing to £839,261. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £586,241 (carried forward) plus the current year surplus, indicating a strong financial position relative to its fixed asset base of £813,219. No material uncertainties or risks to continuing operations are disclosed in the filing.

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 3 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.

• 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
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

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 (28/01/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Christopher Lochman
• GEOFFREY VERNON HARPER
• JOHN HUGH PENNEY
• Philippa Wickenden
• RICHARD JAMES FORT
• WAYNE SMITH

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

Operates in: Wokingham

Income and spending

Common questions

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF HOLY TRINITY, HURSTPIERPOINT.

• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF HOLY TRINITY, HURSTPIERPOINT income £275k
• THE ALMSHOUSE OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST AND ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST income £160k
• BEVERLEY CONSOLIDATED CHARITY income £1.3m
• WILLIAM LOVETT'S ALMSHOUSE CHARITY income £491k
• BRISTOL AND ANCHOR ALMSHOUSE CHARITY income £336k
• ST NICHOLAS HOSPITAL income £352k

Side by side with its peers

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