MABEL GALE BEQUEST

Registered charity 200857 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Mabel Gale Bequest maintains 12 one bedroomed flats and surrounding gardens for elderly poor ladies in Bridport, Dorset.

Objects

TO ERECT & MAINTAIN HOMES FOR AGED POOR FEMALES WHO SHALL HAVE RESIDED IN THE BOROUGH OF BRIDPORT FOR AT LEAST TEN YEARS AND SHALL BE AT LEAST 65 YEARS OF AGE.

Area of benefit: BRIDPORT

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

Causes: Accommodation/housing · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's estimated costs were understated overall by £3,125 compared to actual costs, with the main overspend due to refurbishment work. The document notes that the bungalows are now fully occupied again and that income received exceeded estimates.

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 3 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.

• Complaints handling
• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sandra Brownchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• David Weston
• Lesley Woodroffe
• MICHAEL JOHN CONROY M.C.
• Michael Morse
• Richard Lewington
• TRACY SCAMMELL

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

Operates in: Dorset

Income and spending

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