WILLIAM PAUL HOUSING TRUST

Registered charity 212597 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Charity is an Almshouse providing 80 properties for occupation by people in Ipswich

Objects

TO PROVIDE HOUSING ACCOMMODATION FOR THE RESPECTABLE POOR.

Area of benefit: IPSWICH

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 generated a total comprehensive income of £370,332 for the year ended 31 March 2025, an increase from the previous year. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £3,357,683 and maintains adequate resources to continue operations for the foreseeable future, with no material uncertainties identified regarding going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by BDO LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Homes England. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• 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
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~104.1 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (85% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANCHOR HANOVER GROUP · trustee of 5 other charities

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

Operates in: Suffolk

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE FLOOD CHARITY.

• THE FLOOD CHARITY income £117k
• IPSWICH HOUSING ACTION GROUP LIMITED income £968k
• QUAKER HOUSING TRUST LIMITED income £153k
• WILLIAM LOVETT'S ALMSHOUSE CHARITY income £491k
• HULL TRINITY HOUSE CHARITY income £4.2m
• POORS CHARITIES income £111k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.