RUABON ALMSHOUSE CHARITY

Registered charity 213155 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To provide low cost housing for low income persons/families

Objects

THE ALMSPEOPLE SHALL BE POOR PERSONS WHO ARE RESIDENT IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT AT THE TIME OF APPOINTMENT

Area of benefit: COMMUNITIES OF CEFN, PEN Y CAE, RHOSLLANCHRUGOG AND RUABON.

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

Registered contact address: Wrexham, Wales (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income

£101k

Latest spending

£94k

Registered

1975

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The Ruabon Almshouse Charity reports unrestricted reserves of £32,573 as of December 31, 2025, derived from cash funds and investment assets. The charity's primary funding comes from resident maintenance contributions, which totaled £34,356, while total receipts for the year were £100,712. The trustees maintain a reserves policy targeting a minimum of six months' maintenance contributions, though the specific annual cost required to assess compliance is not explicitly stated in the provided text.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: A mintmum of 6 months maintenance contributions should be held to cover ordinary annual maintenance costs. (reserves figure: £33k)

“A mintmum of 6 months maintenance contributions should be held to cover ordinary annual maintenance costs.” — page 5

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Welsh Government (Social Landlords And Housing Associations). 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.

Complaints handling
Conflicting interests
Investment
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2025

Volunteers: 7
Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit; payments to trustees for services to the charity

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2022 (received 27/11/2023, 27 days after the 31/10/2023 due date); year ending 31/12/2021 (received 17/11/2022, 17 days after the 31/10/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

REV KATE TILTMANchair · trustee of 3 other charities
ELISE SIAN JACKSON
Joan Lowe · trustee of 1 other charity
Julie Mackreth · trustee of 1 other charity
Sonia Tyger Benbow-Jones · trustee of 2 other charities
Susan Hallard · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Wrexham

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2025	£101k	£94k
31/12/2024	£39k	£46k
31/12/2023	£34k	£85k
31/12/2022	£30k	£27k
31/12/2021	£37k	£26k

Common questions

Is RUABON ALMSHOUSE CHARITY financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The Ruabon Almshouse Charity reports unrestricted reserves of £32,573 as of December 31, 2025, derived from cash funds and investment assets. The charity's primary funding comes from resident maintenance contributions, which totaled £34,356, while total receipts for the year were £100,712. The trustees maintain a reserves policy targeting a minimum of six months' maintenance contributions, though the specific annual cost required to assess compliance is not explicitly stated in the provided text. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
SIR JOHN PRIESTMAN CHARITY TRUST	1	£12k

Charities like this

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

THE RETTENDON ALMSHOUSE CHARITY income £51k
JANE GIBSON ALMSHOUSES income £42k
ALMSHOUSE CHARITIES income £114k
THE BERWICK ALMSHOUSE CHARITY income £61k
RICHARDSON HOMES income £49k
CROOKHAM ALMSHOUSE CHARITY CIO income £69k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
RUABON ALMSHOUSE CHARITY	£101k	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE RETTENDON ALMSHOUSE CHARITY FY2025	£51k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
JANE GIBSON ALMSHOUSES FY2025	£42k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
ALMSHOUSE CHARITIES FY2025	£114k	—	—	above	—	no doubt
THE BERWICK ALMSHOUSE CHARITY FY2025	£61k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
RICHARDSON HOMES FY2026	£49k	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt

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