ELIZABETH DOWELL'S ALMSHOUSE TRUST

Registered charity 1204800 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To provide affordable housing for the elderly.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus for the year with total unrestricted and designated funds of £1,436,896 and total funds carried forward of £1,548,302. The trustees maintain a reserves policy targeting six months of normal operational expenditure, which is covered by the available cash and liquid resources. The organization remains solvent with a positive operating margin and high occupancy rates in its social housing stock.

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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Charles James Wallchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Anne Durbin
• Isobel Shirley Knowles · trustee of 1 other charity
• Laura Katherine Ward
• MARY GIRVAN
• Nigel Bruce van Wijk · trustee of 1 other charity
• ROBERT LEONARD STANTON
• Revd. Professor Frank John Berry · trustee of 1 other charity
• Robert James Wishart · trustee of 1 other charity
• Stephen Gibbons · trustee of 1 other charity
• Thomas Graham Russell

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

Operates in: Birmingham City

Income and spending

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