RICHARD WATTS AND THE CITY OF ROCHESTER ALMSHOUSE CHARITIES

Registered charity 212828 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provision of Almshouse accommodation. Grant making to relieve sickness or need to persons resident in the City of Rochester

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITIES ARE: (1) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY OF PERSONS IN THE MEDWAY UNITARY AUTHORITY AREA, OR WHO IN THE OPINION OF THE TRUSTEES HAVE A LOCAL CONNECTION WITH THE MEDWAY UNITARY AUTHORITY AREA BY THE PROVISION AND MAINTENANCE OF SOCIAL HOUSING IN THE FORM OF ALMSHOUSE ACCOMMODATION; AND (2) THE RELIEF OF PEOPLE IN THE MEDWAY UNITARY AUTHORITY AREA WHO ARE IN NEED BY REASON OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE, IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES DETERMINE.

Area of benefit: CITY OF ROCHESTER

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

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Medway, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity transferred all assets and liabilities to a new charitable incorporated organisation (CIO) on 1 April 2025, ceasing its own operations. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves were nil at year-end, falling below the stated policy target of maintaining between six months and one year's running costs. The independent auditors confirmed the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified no material uncertainties regarding going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Kreston Reeves Audit LLP. 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.

• 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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• 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
• Volunteer management

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

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Mr Tim Newman — Chair (source)
• Martin Sissons — Chief Executive Officer (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~12.1 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 26.5% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Keith Poveychair · trustee of 1 other charity
• ALEXANDRA JEAN CLARABUT
• COLIN MCCARTHY · trustee of 1 other charity
• Carolyn Mary Sims · trustee of 1 other charity
• Linda Reay · trustee of 1 other charity
• PETER JAMES SMITH · trustee of 1 other charity
• Richard Patteson-Knight · trustee of 1 other charity
• Shirley Gurteen · trustee of 3 other charities
• Timothy Newman · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Medway

Income and spending

Common questions

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with RICHARD WATTS CHARITIES CIO.

• RICHARD WATTS CHARITIES CIO income £28.1m
• CROOKHAM ALMSHOUSE CHARITY CIO income £69k
• ALMSHOUSE CHARITIES income £114k
• ROSS CHARITY TRUSTEES ALMSHOUSES BRANCH income £160k
• NORMAN ALMSHOUSES CHARITY income £30k
• CHELTENHAM ALMSHOUSES & AID CIO income £312k

Side by side with its peers

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