CROYDON ALMSHOUSES

Registered charity 1209872 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provision of Almshouse accommodation for needy persons living in the London Borough of Croydon and the ancient Parish of Mitcham

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE:3.1. THE RELIEF OF NEED BY REASON OF POVERTY, AGE, DISABILITY OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE, BY THE PROVISION OF ALMSHOUSE ACCOMMODATION FOR THE BENEFICIARIES WHO LIVE IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF CROYDON AND THE ANCIENT PARISH OF MITCHAM; 3.2. SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE RESIDENTS OF THE ABOVE ALMSHOUSES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE; AND 3.3. THE RELIEF, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, OF PERSONS WHO ARE IN NEED BY REASON OF POVERTY OR HARDSHIP, AGE, DISABILITY, OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE WHO ARE RESIDENT IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF CROYDON BY MAKING GRANTS OF MONEY OR PROVIDING OR PAYING FOR GOODS, SERVICES OR FACILITIES TO THOSE IN NEED (WHETHER DIRECTLY OR THROUGH OTHER INSTITUTIONS OR ORGANISATIONS).

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 · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Croydon, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a surplus of £2,153,452 for the year ended 31 December 2025, driven by significant investment gains of £2,717,708. Total funds stood at £39,608,363, with unrestricted reserves of £7,752,122, which exceed the Board's approved Risk-based General Reserve target of £2,000,000. The trustees confirmed the charity can sustain its operations for the foreseeable future with no material uncertainties regarding going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Bryden Johnson 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 policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Michael Chawatama — Chair (source)
• Joe Tuke CBE — Vice Chair (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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

10 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (10 freehold); recorded price paid £1.6m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~13.1 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (61% 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: 11.0% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (25/06/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (25/06/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Adam Robinson
• Anthony H Smart
• Arlene Eugenie Esdaile · trustee of 2 other charities
• Claire Dunn
• Emma Hinson
• Joseph Michael Tuke
• Michael Chawatama · trustee of 1 other charity
• Shauna Higgins
• Vanessa Russell
• Yvonne Boateng

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

Operates in: Croydon

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HARCOURT ALMSHOUSE CHARITY.

• HARCOURT ALMSHOUSE CHARITY income £30k
• ALMSHOUSE CHARITIES income £114k
• MARSHFIELD CONSOLIDATED CHARITIES income £56k
• AYLOTT JANES ALMSHOUSES income £173k
• JAMES SMITH'S ALMSHOUSE CHARITY income £88k
• LINCOLN ALMSHOUSES CHARITY income £27k

Side by side with its peers

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