ELIZABETH DOWELL'S TRUST

Registered charity 217309 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as DOWELL'S RETREAT

To provide affordable housing for the elderly.

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Latest income

£206k

Latest spending

£171k

Registered

1963

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity completed a merger with Elizabeth Dowell's Almshouse Trust on 30 September 2025, transferring all assets and liabilities. The filing reports a surplus for the nine-month period and notes full occupancy of its housing stock, with cash reserves exceeding borrowings.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: three years of operational costs (held: £1.4m)

“The General Reserve is to be maintained to cover around 3 years of operational costs including holding sufficient cash and liquid resources to cover six months of normal operational expenditure.”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Trustees · trustee networks

Charles James Wallchair · trustee of 2 other charities
Anne Durbin
BOB STANTON
Izzy Knowles
Mary Girvan
Nigel Bruce van Wijk · trustee of 1 other charity
Revd. Professor Frank John Berry · trustee of 1 other charity
Robert James Wishart · trustee of 1 other charity
Stephen Gibbons · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Birmingham City

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
30/09/2025	£206k	£171k
31/12/2024	£263k	£284k
31/12/2023	£250k	£232k
31/12/2022	£223k	£197k
31/12/2021	£187k	£197k

Common questions

Is ELIZABETH DOWELL'S TRUST financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity completed a merger with Elizabeth Dowell's Almshouse Trust on 30 September 2025, transferring all assets and liabilities. The filing reports a surplus for the nine-month period and notes full occupancy of its housing stock, with cash reserves exceeding borrowings. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
The National Lottery Community Fund	06/01/2011	£10k	Dowells Goes Digital

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
THE SIR JAMES RECKITT CHARITY	1	£18k
NORTH EAST THAMES QUAKER TRUST	1	£15k
THE EDWARD CADBURY CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£10k
LANCASHIRE CENTRAL AND NORTH AREA QUAKER MEETING	1	£434

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE JAMES LLOYD ALMSHOUSES.

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
ELIZABETH DOWELL'S TRUST	£206k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE JAMES LLOYD ALMSHOUSES FY2025	£233k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
ELIZABETH JANE JONES FY2025	£738k	—	—	above	—	no doubt
HOUSING BURSARY TRUST FUND FY2025	£102k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
EDWARD MAYES TRUST FY2023	£472k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
GOD'S HOUSE IN EWELME FY2023	£1.0m	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt

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