CHARITY OF MARJORIE HURST

Registered charity 215596 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Charity is an Almhouse Charity providing accommodation for the elderly. The Charity operates exclusively within the town of Knutsford.

Objects

PROVISION OF ALMSHOUSES FOR POOR AGED PERSONS RESIDENT IN THE TOWN OF KNUTSFORD.

Area of benefit: TOWN OF KNUTSFORD

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 · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity remains financially sound with a continuing surplus from operating activities and adequate reserves held in listed shares and bank accounts. Per the trustees' report, there are no known factors likely to affect future performance, and the charity maintains a liquid cash reserve of approximately £20,000 for day-to-day maintenance.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 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.

• 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
• 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

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Housing Corporation — “in the 1990s the Trustees secured a Housing Corporation grant to renovate the four remaining cottages and to build the six flats that exist …” (source page)

Trustees · trustee networks

• MR RICK DALLIMOREchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Andrew Lloyd-Green · trustee of 1 other charity
• PAUL ANTHONY BARON
• Simon Dudley Armstrong · trustee of 1 other charity
• VALERIE JEAN YOUNG

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

Operates in: Cheshire East

Income and spending

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