NOTTINGHAM COMMUNITY ALMSHOUSE CHARITY

Registered charity 214040 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CHARITY OF JOHN WRIGHT, THE CHARITY OF JOHN WRIGHT

Provision of 1 and 2 bed properties for needy people over the age of 50 in the city of Nottingham and the county of Nottinghamshire.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE: (A) THE PROVISION OF ALMSHOUSE ACCOMMODATION FOR BENEFICIARIES; (B) SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE RESIDENTS AS THE TRUSTEE DECIDES; AND (C) THE PAYMENT OF ANNUITIES TO NECESSITOUS PERSONS OF GOOD CHARACTER WHO ARE RESIDENT IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT BUT THE TRUSTEE MUST GIVE PREFERENCE TO WIDOWS AND SPINSTERS WHO ARE RESIDENT IN THE NOTTINGHAMSHIRE AREA AT THE TIME OF APPOINTMENT.

Area of benefit: THE EAST MIDLANDS, NAMELY THE COUNTIES OF NOTTINGHAMSHIRE, LEICESTERSHIRE, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE, DERBYSHIRE, RUTLAND AND LINCOLNSHIRE.

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Charity achieved a surplus of £248k for the year ended 31 March 2025, with unrestricted general fund reserves increasing to £3.587m. The Trustee defines free reserves as £69k, calculated as total unrestricted funds less tangible fixed assets for charity use less amounts designated for essential future spending. The Charity has no stated reserves policy target, noting that targets are set as part of the budgeting process rather than by a fixed policy.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by RSM UK Audit LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Financial Conduct Authority; 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~53.5 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (93% 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (28/03/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (08/02/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (26/10/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (20/12/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (31/05/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (07/02/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• NOTTINGHAM COMMUNITY HOUSING ASSOCITION LIMITED

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

Operates in: Nottinghamshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with NOTTINGHAM MUNICIPAL CHARITIES.

• NOTTINGHAM MUNICIPAL CHARITIES income £323k
• Age UK Nottingham & Nottinghamshire income £3.3m
• THE UNITED CHARITIES OF ABEL COLLIN income £525k
• THE ABERFORD ALMSHOUSES income £177k
• JAMIAT AHL-E-HADITH NOTTINGHAM income £161k
• LANGLEY MARISH UNITED CHARITIES income £179k

Side by side with its peers

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