PADSTOW POOR'S LAND CHARITIES

Registered charity 201375 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as POOR'S LAND, THE POOR'S LAND CHARITIES

Provision of housing accomodation to elderly/old people of limited financial means.

Objects

1) YEARLY PAYMENT OF 40S.0D. TO THE VICAR FOR THE TIME BEING OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST PETROC, PADSTOW OR OTHER THE PREACHER OF FOUR SERMONS TO BE PREACHED IN THE PARISH CHURCH. 2) YEARLY PAYMENT OF 12.0D. TO THE RINGERS OF BELLS AT THE SAID PARISH CHURCH FOR A PEAL ON THE 21 AUGUST EACH YEAR, THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF NICHOLAS WATTS. 3) PROVISION AND MAINTENANCE OF ALMSHOUSES FOR POOR SINGLE MEN OR SINGLE WOMEN OR WIDOWERS OR WIDOWS WHO ARE NOT LESS THAN 50 YEARS OF AGE AND WHO HAVE RESIDED IN THE AREA OF THE ANCIENT PARISH OF PADSTOW FOR NOT LESS THAN ONE YEAR NEXT PRECEDING THE TIME OF APPOINTMENT.

Area of benefit: ANCIENT PARISH OF PADSTOW

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 for the year ended 31 December 2025 have been subject to an independent examination rather than a full audit, as determined by the trustees under the Charities Act 2011. The independent examiner reported that no matters came to their attention giving reasonable cause to believe that accounting records were not kept or accounts were not prepared in accordance with the Charities Act. No material problems or unusual items were disclosed in the examination report.

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.

• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £275k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANNETTE ELIZABETH SYMONS
• Alec Rickard
• Alicia Conium
• MALCOLM PAUL MCCARTHY
• Matthew Chown
• PATRICIA ANNE MCCARTHY
• Sian Louise Howells

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

Operates in: Cornwall

Income and spending

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