WORSLEY'S ALMSHOUSES

Registered charity 1209681 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Almshouses belonging to the Charity provide accommodation under licence for poor persons who have lived on the Isle of Wight, primarily in Newport and Godshill, for a minimum of ten years. Assistance may also be given by other such means as the Trustees think fit from time to time

Objects

1. TO PROVIDE RELIEF FOR POOR PERSONS WHO ARE INHABITANTS OF THE AREA OF THE FORMER BOROUGH OF NEWPORT OR OF THE PARISH OF GODSHILL IN THE ISLE OF WIGHT, BY THE PROVISION OF ALMSHOUSE ACCOMMODATION UNDER LICENCE AND BY OTHER SUCH MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT FROM TIME TO TIME.

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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• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (29/10/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Jonathan Chave Nainby-Luxmoore DLchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Colin Kenneth Samuelson · trustee of 2 other charities
• David James Langdon · trustee of 2 other charities
• GILLIAN FRANCES BURNETT · trustee of 1 other charity
• Graeme Bowen · trustee of 2 other charities
• Patricia Lewington

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

Operates in: Isle Of Wight

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