THE CAMBRIDGE ROYAL ALBERT HOMES

Registered charity 1190144 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ROYAL ALBERT HOMES

Warden controlled acommodation, promoting the welfare of the Residents, to allow them to lead an independent life

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY BY PROVIDING SOCIAL HOUSING IN THE FORM OF ALMSHOUSE ACCOMMODATION FOR OLDER PERSONS OF MODEST MEANS WHO ARE RESIDENTS OF, OR WHO HAVE CLOSE ASSOCIATIONS WITH, THE CITY OF CAMBRIDGE.

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 net incoming resources for the year were £94,670, resulting in total net assets of £2,527,171. The trustees have adopted a reserves policy to maintain between three to six months of resources expended, and unrestricted funds are held to support this objective. The charity is funded by weekly maintenance charges, investment proceeds, and donations, with no material uncertainties affecting its ability to continue as a going concern.

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
• Paying staff
• 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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Cambridge Royal Albert Homes (CIO) (matched by registered charity number).

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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~105.2 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 7.1 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other (98% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.0%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (29/05/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Richard James Peacheychair
• Ann Bullock
• Anne Margery Devenport
• Jean-Pierre Faivre
• Stefania Borchia
• Stephen Philip Conrad
• Susan Greenbank

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ROYAL ALBERT AND ST SWITHUN'S HOMES.

• THE ROYAL ALBERT AND ST SWITHUN'S HOMES income £205k
• ROYAL CAMBRIDGE HOME LIMITED income £1.6m
• THE FINCH ALMSHOUSES, RAVENSTONE income £260k
• THOMAS PHILIPOT'S ALMSHOUSE CHARITY income £379k
• THE ROYAL CAMBRIDGE HOME income £12.4m
• CHELTENHAM ALMSHOUSES & AID CIO income £312k

Side by side with its peers

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