WILSON MEMORIAL HOMES

Registered charity 1184260 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Maintaining and providing affordable housing

Objects

THE PROVISION AND MAINTENANCE OF ALMSHOUSES TO PEOPLE OF NOT LESS THAN 50 YEARS OF AGE WITH A CHARITABLE NEED FOR HOUSING, THE MAJORITY OF WHOM BEING ON LOW INCOMES, AND WHERE PREFERENCE IS GIVEN TO PEOPLE WHO ARE BORN IN OR ARE RESIDENT IN THE PARISHES FOR FARLAM, BRAMPTON AND WALTON.”

Area of benefit: IN THE PARISHES FOR FARLAM, BRAMPTON AND WALTON

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

Causes: Accommodation/housing · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £65,111.67, which the Trustees consider sufficient to cover approximately three months of day-to-day expenditure. The charity reported a surplus for the year and holds significant designated reserves for repairs and maintenance, alongside a substantial investment portfolio valued at £44,200.

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 4 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 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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 (11/10/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Peter Sedgwickchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Franz Ian Hutcheson
• JOHN BRIAN HOGG · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kevin George Timmons
• MAUREEN GRANVILLE
• Michael Dobson
• SALLY MARGARET NELSON
• Susan Julie Gutteridge
• WILLIAM JOHN WILSON

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

Operates in: Cumbria

Income and spending

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