ELIZABETH DOWELL'S ALMSHOUSE TRUST

Registered charity 1204800 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To provide affordable housing for the elderly.

Objects

3.1 THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:3.1.1 THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS OF ELDERLY PERSONS IN BIRMINGHAM BY THE PROVISION AND MAINTENANCE OF SOCIAL HOUSING IN THE FORM OF ALMSHOUSE ACCOMMODATION; AND3.1.2 SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DECIDE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE RESIDENTS OF THE ALMSHOUSES.

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 · 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.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Homes England. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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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