THE CHARITY OF JANE WRIGHT

Registered charity 1177600 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To provide Almshouse accommodation to poor persons who are resident in the City of York and to provide grants to individuals and organisations to benefit people in need who are resident in the City of York.

Objects

1) THE PROVISION OF ALMSHOUSES FOR POOR PERSONS WHO (EXCEPT IN SPECIAL CASES TO BE APPROVED BY THE COMMISSIONERS) ARE RESIDENT IN THE CITY OF YORK AT THE TIME OF APPOINTMENT.2) THE ADVANCEMENT IN LIFE - THE TRUSTEES SHALL APPLY INCOME FOR ADVANCEMENT IN LIFE BY PROVIDING FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE, OUTFITS, CLOTHING, TOOLS, INSTRUMENTS OR BOOKS TO ASSIST POOR PERSONS BORN AND RESIDENT WITHIN THE CITY OF YORK ON LEAVING SCHOOL, UNIVERSITY OR ANY OTHER EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENT TO PREPARE FOR OR ENTER INTO A PROFESSION, TRADE OR CALLING.3) THE RELIEF IN NEED - THE TRUSTEES SHALL APPLY INCOME FOR RELIEF IN NEED IN RELIEVING EITHER GENERALLY OR INDIVIDUALLY PERSONS RESIDENT IN THE CITY OF YORK WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS BY MAKING GRANTS OF MONEY OR BY PROVIDING OR PAYING FOR ITEMS, SERVICES AND FACILITIES CALCULATED TO REDUCE THE NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS OF SUCH PERSONS.

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 · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Other Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: York, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that free reserves finished the year at £165,056, which is above the trustees' stated target of £70,000. The trustees confirm that financial resources remain strong enough to proceed with current building maintenance and improvement plans.

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.

• 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
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (19/08/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• STEPHEN PAUL HALLETTchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• D WOOD
• DEREK WILLIAM MOTTRAM
• JAMES DRAKE TAYLOR
• JANE COLEMAN
• Jeremy Peter Robert Nolan
• Nicholas Sawyer
• QUENTIN NIGEL SMALLPAGE

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

Operates in: City Of York

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with JAMES SMITH'S ALMSHOUSE CHARITY.

• JAMES SMITH'S ALMSHOUSE CHARITY income £88k
• THE DRAPERS' ALMSHOUSE CHARITY income £1.6m
• ST JOHN'S LICHFIELD income £538k
• SIWARD JAMES AND ARKWRIGHT TRUST CHARITY income £121k
• JANE GIBSON ALMSHOUSES income £42k
• ST JOHN'S ALMSHOUSE CHARITIES income £63k

Side by side with its peers

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