SIMPSONS ALMSHOUSES

Registered charity 205950 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provision of 4 single occupancy Almshouses to provide low cost housing for, firstly:Poor people belonging to Christchurch Methodist/URC Church in Hitchin, Secondly,To those worshipping in other Protestant Churches within and around Hitchin, and thirdly,For any poor resident of Hitchin

Objects

ALMSHOUSES FOR POOR MEMEBERS OF THE CONGREGATION MEETING FOR RELIGIOUS WORSHIP AT CHRISTCHURCH. ON THE OCCASION OF A VACANCY FOR AN ALMSPERSON THERE IS NO SUITABLE APPLICANT AS AFORESAID THE TRUSTEES MAY APPOINT A POOR PERSON WHO AT THE TIME OF APPOINTMENT IS A MEMBER OF A CONGREGATION OF PROTESTANT DISSENTERS MEETING FOR RELIGIOUS WORSHIP AT ANY CHAPEL IN OR NEAR HITCHIN.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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 FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity is solvent with sufficient funds in reserves, totaling £161,272.01. The trustees confirm there are no uncertainties about the charity continuing as a going concern. The primary source of funds is identified as monthly maintenance contributions from residents.

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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ananda Jane Hale
• BERNARD HIGGS
• Jackie Hamilton
• Luke Thomas Telford · trustee of 2 other charities
• PAULINE EDWARDS
• Peter Trussell
• ROGER PHILIPPE DE STE CROIX
• Stella White
• Victor Norman Evans

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

Operates in: Hertfordshire

Income and spending

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