ALMSHOUSE CHARITIES

Registered charity 212296 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To provide and maintain accomodation for almshouse and other tenants and appointees

Objects

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Area of benefit: PARISH OF WITHAM

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Other Charitable Purposes · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a surplus of £15,272 for the year ended 31 December 2024. Per the trustees' report, the charity holds free reserves in excess of its stated policy target of a quarter of annual resources expended. The charity is unincorporated and managed by a Board of Trustees who oversee property refurbishment and potential conversion to a CIO.

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
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• PHILIP BARLOWchair
• David Sodimu
• Isobel Jean Campbell Doubleday
• Rev Jonathan Llewelyn Pritchard · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sandra Howell
• Sue Wilson · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Essex

Income and spending

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