THE HENRY COVENTRY ALMSHOUSES CHARITY

Registered charity 1188633 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To provide housing for people over 55 years of age, who are in financial need and have a strong connection to Droitwich.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:I) THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY BY PROVIDING SOCIAL HOUSING, IN THE FORM OF ALMSHOUSE ACCOMMODATION, FOR PERSONS WHO ARE NOT LESS THAN 55 YEARS OF AGE WHO ARE IN NEED OF SUCH ACCOMMODATION DUE TO FINANCIAL HARDSHIP ORLIMITED FINANCIAL RESOURCES, AND WHO (EXCEPT IN SPECIAL CASES TO BE APPROVED BY THE CHARITY COMMISSION) HAVE RESIDED IN THE BOROUGH OF DROITWICH FOR NOT LESS THAN TWO YEARS NEXT PRECEDING THE TIME OF THEIR APPOINTMENT.II) SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF RESIDENTS OF THE ALMSHOUSES 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 accounts state that the charity reported a net outgoing resources surplus of £50,754 for the year ended 31 December 2025, driven by an operating surplus and investment growth. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £599,065, which exceeds the stated policy target of maintaining reserves equivalent to a minimum of one year’s expenditure. The trustees confirmed adequate resources for going concern purposes with no material uncertainties identified.

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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• Paying staff
• 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANGELA JENNIFER HAWKINS
• GORDON ROBERT BROOKES
• Michael Allan Howard · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Jon Michael Turner
• VERONICA MARY BROOKES
• WILLIAM THOMAS MOY
• Yolanda Vania Coulter

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

Operates in: Worcestershire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with NOTTINGHAM COMMUNITY ALMSHOUSE CHARITY.

• NOTTINGHAM COMMUNITY ALMSHOUSE CHARITY income £1.0m
• LANGLEY MARISH UNITED CHARITIES income £179k
• GREENWICH CHARITY OF WILLIAM HATCLIFFE AND THE MISSES SMITH income £460k
• THE ABERFORD ALMSHOUSES income £177k
• COVENTRY CHURCH (MUNICIPAL) CHARITIES income £1.7m
• THE HOSPITAL OF ST OSWALD income £198k

Side by side with its peers

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