THE ALDGATE FREEDOM FOUNDATION

Registered charity 207046 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Charity provides relief of poverty in any way that the trustees see fit including the provision of financial assistance to individuals or organisations (including charities) resident, employed or found in the Freedom part of the Parish of St. Botolph-without-Aldgate and the area to the boundry of the Portsoken Ward of the City of London.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:(1) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AMONGST POOR PEOPLE WHO ARE RESIDENT, EMPLOYED OR FOUND IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT, IN PARTICULAR THOSE WHO ARE HOMELESS OR SICK IN ANY WAY THE TRUSTEES SEE FIT, INCLUDING BY THE PROVISION OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO INDIVIDUALS OR ORGANISATIONS (INCLUDING CHARITIES).(2) TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE MAINTAINING IN ORDER AND SECURITY OF THE CHURCHYARD ADJOINING THE PARISH CHURCH OF ST BOTOLPH SO LONG AS IT SHALL BE KEPT AS AN OPEN SPACE FOR THE USE OF PUBLIC.

Area of benefit: FREEDOM PART OF THE PARISH OF ST BOTOLPH ALDGATE AND THE VICINITY THEREOF PROVIDED THAT THIS DOES NOT EXTEND BEYOND THE BOUNDARIES OF THE PORTSOKEN WARD OF THE CITY OF LONDON

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net deficit of £104,763 in 2025, driven by charitable expenditure exceeding income. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £500,350 at year-end, which the trustees consider sufficient to maintain operations as a going concern.

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 5 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
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alastair Hale
• CATHY JONES
• Delis Theresa Regis
• HENRY LLEWELLYN JONES
• Ian Mulcahey
• Pauline Seymour
• Rev Laura Jane Jorgensen · trustee of 5 other charities

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

Operates in: City Of London

Income and spending

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• ST ALDATES PAROCHIAL CHARITY income £322k
• T. A. G. TRUST LTD income £191k
• THE ALDGATE AND ALLHALLOWS FOUNDATION income £325k
• The Freedom Community Trust Limited income £1.0m
• AMBERGATE CHARITABLE TRUST income £41k
• HUGGARD income £3.2m

Side by side with its peers

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