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.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:1.1 THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS OF ELDERLY PERSONS IN BIRMINGHAM BY THE PROVISION AND MAINTENANCE OF SOCIAL HOUSING IN THE FORM OF ALMSHOUSE ACCOMMODATION; AND 1.2 SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DECIDE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE RESIDENTS OF THE ALMSHOUSES.”

Area of benefit: CITY OF BIRMINGHAM

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

Causes: Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

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

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.

• 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

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Charities like this

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

• THE JAMES LLOYD ALMSHOUSES income £233k
• ELIZABETH JANE JONES income £738k
• THE ANDROS ALMSHOUSE CHARITY income £225k
• HOUSING BURSARY TRUST FUND income £102k
• EDWARD MAYES TRUST income £472k
• GOD'S HOUSE IN EWELME income £1.6m

Side by side with its peers

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