NEWBURY MUNICIPAL CHARITIES

Registered charity 200671 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CONSOLIDATED MUNICIPAL CHARITIES, NEWBURY ALMSHOUSE TRUST

Provision of low cost housing for the elderly in need.

Objects

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Area of benefit: FORMER BOROUGH AND RURAL DISTRICT OF NEWBURY

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that total cash reserves stood at £378,583, an increase from £206,122 in the prior year, while unrestricted funds are held in both the General Fund and the Extraordinary Repair Fund. The trustees maintain a policy to ensure sufficient funds for the maintenance and repair of the almshouses, including an extraordinary repair fund valued at £37,899. The charity reports no material matters requiring attention in the independent examiner's report.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 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.

• Campaigns and political activity 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
• Investment
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• Graham Vanbergenchair
• Newbury Almshouse Trustee

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

Operates in: West Berkshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE CITY OF LONDON ALMSHOUSES.

• THE CITY OF LONDON ALMSHOUSES income £480k
• THE ABERFORD ALMSHOUSES income £177k
• Beaconwild Ltd income £2.2m
• THE ABBEYFIELD GREAT MISSENDEN AND DISTRICT SOCIETY income £355k
• THE ALEXANDRA HOMES income £220k
• THE ABBEYFIELD (CAMBORNE) SOCIETY LIMITED income £137k

Side by side with its peers

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