THORNER'S HOMES

Registered charity 1189291 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The provision of almshouse accommodation for poor widows and single women aged 55 or over; who require such accommodation due to poverty, financial hardship or other charitable need.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:(I)RELIEVING NEED BY PROVIDING SOCIAL HOUSING IN THE FORM OF ALMSHOUSE ACCOMMODATION FOR:(A) POOR WIDOWS, AND(B) SINGLE WOMEN AGED 55 OR OVERWHO REQUIRE SUCH ACCOMMODATION DUE TO POVERTY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER CHARITABLE NEED.(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.

Causes: Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Southampton, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net surplus of £1,337,417 for the year ended 31 December 2025, primarily driven by a one-off £1.54 million donation from the merger with Barlow & Ellyett Homes. The charity holds free unrestricted reserves of £1,301,241, which exceeds the trustees' prudent policy target of one year's operating costs estimated at £500,000. The accounts were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified by the independent auditors.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Hopper Williams & Bell Limited. Discloses 6 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Vicky Joynes — Chief Executive (source)
• Paul Meacher — Chair of the Trustees (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~7.6 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (62% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (27/02/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANN JENNIFER BENNETT · trustee of 1 other charity
• Andrew Barnett
• Cllr Misty Calanthia Delamothe Burgess
• Daniel Butt
• Dave Richards · trustee of 1 other charity
• David Frederick Hankins · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jane Bowen
• Michael John Caton · trustee of 1 other charity
• Miriam Hayward
• Paul Frederick Meacher · trustee of 2 other charities
• Richard Dudley Brazier · trustee of 2 other charities
• Sarah Vaughan

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

Operates in: Southampton City

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with TURNER'S ALMSHOUSES.

• TURNER'S ALMSHOUSES income £173k
• TROTTER'S CHARITY income £41k
• TURNER HOME income £4.8m
• SIR EDMUND TURNOR'S HOSPITAL income £49k
• TIVERTON ALMSHOUSE TRUST income £1.1m
• THE HILLIER ALMSHOUSES income £285k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.