MUNICIPAL GENERAL CHARITY

Registered charity 217437 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MUNICIPAL GENERAL CHARITIES FOR THE POOR

Provide funding for the needy both individual and in groups

Objects

A) FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE RESIDENTS IN ANY ALMSHOUSES OF THE CHARITY OR ANY OF THEM IN SUCH MANNER AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT FROM TIME TO TIME.B) FOR RELIEF IN NEED IN RELIEVING EITHER GENERALLY OR INDIVIDUALLY PERSONS RESIDENT IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS BY MAKING GRANTS OF MONEY OR PROVIDING OR PAYING FOR ITEMS, SERVICES OR FACILITIES CALCULATED TO REDUCE THE NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS OF SUCH PERSONS.

Area of benefit: PARISHES OF NEWARK, FARNDEN, WINTHORPE, HAWTON, COLLINGHAM, CODDINGTON, LANGFORD AND HOLME

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Newark and Sherwood, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's unrestricted reserves were £1,234,567 at the year end, which is below the stated policy target of three months of unrestricted expenditure. The trustees report that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operation for the foreseeable future, with no material uncertainties identified.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Wright Vigar Limited. Discloses 2 of 6 completeness components.

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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (19/01/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (19/01/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (24/07/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• JOAN WHICHERchair
• ANTHONY CHARLES ROBERTS
• Councillor Marjorie Bayne
• DOREEN WESTMORELAND
• Irene Brown
• JEAN MOORE MBE JP · trustee of 2 other charities
• MAX COPE
• Mathew Skinner · trustee of 1 other charity
• Patrick Knight
• Sam Smith · trustee of 1 other charity
• Susan Crosby

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

Operates in: Nottinghamshire

Income and spending

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• PUBLISH WHAT YOU FUND income £781k
• MUNICIPAL CHARITIES income £46k
• MH GEMACH income £42k
• SCJM CHARITABLE TRUST income £54k
• ST. GILES CHARITY ESTATES income £1.0m
• MANCHESTER CHARITABLE TRUST LTD income £154k

Side by side with its peers

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