WILLIAM LOVETT'S ALMSHOUSE CHARITY

Registered charity 1187392 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity owns and rents 6 almshouses to suitably qualified residents, as determined by the charity's constitution. It also owns adjacent and surrounding land on which the almshouses are situated, the residual portion of which is set aside as a multi-purpose village amenity.

Objects

1. THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY BY PROVIDING SOCIAL HOUSING, IN THE FORM OF ALMSHOUSE ACCOMMODATION, FOR PERSONS IN NEED OF SUCH ACCOMMODATION DUE TO FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR LIMITED FINANCIAL RESOURCES, WHO (EXCEPT IN SPECIAL CASES TO BE DETERMINED BY THE TRUSTEES) HAVE BEEN RESIDENT IN THE VILLAGE OF WEST HADDON FOR AT LEAST TWO YEARS PRIOR TO THEIR INITIAL APPLICATION, OR WHO HAVE DEMONSTRABLY STRONG OR LONG-STANDING CONNECTIONS WITH THE VILLAGE.2. SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF RESIDENTS AND FORMER RESIDENTS AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE.

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a strong financial position with total reserves of £589,691.12, significantly exceeding its stated policy target of £60,000. The accounts state that there are no currently outstanding liabilities, and the trustees confirmed that funding for the new almshouse project is fully in place, requiring little or no recourse to reserves. The charity achieved an acceptable surplus from almshouse activities and maintained adequate cash flow to meet ongoing project costs.

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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• 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)

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 (06/02/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (14/09/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Charles Edward Porterchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Anne Edith Hopwell · trustee of 1 other charity
• Deborah Judith Lole · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Wendy Jennifer Raybould · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ian Richard Litchfield · trustee of 1 other charity
• Imogen Jane Tansley · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kenneth Brand · trustee of 1 other charity
• Melvyn Robert Griffiths · trustee of 1 other charity
• SIR RICHARD TILT · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Northamptonshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE JAMES LLOYD ALMSHOUSES.

• THE JAMES LLOYD ALMSHOUSES income £233k
• THE ABERFORD ALMSHOUSES income £177k
• THE FINCH ALMSHOUSES, RAVENSTONE income £260k
• THOMAS PHILIPOT'S ALMSHOUSE CHARITY income £379k
• GREENWICH CHARITY OF WILLIAM HATCLIFFE AND THE MISSES SMITH income £460k
• THE HARTLEY TRUST income £2.6m

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