THE POWELL AND WELCH ALMSHOUSE CHARITY

Registered charity 218268 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

As a modern Almshouse Charity we provide affordable housing in a rural area for local people who are in need. Our Residents are elderly people of limited means who are accepted as Almshouse Residents due to their circumstances and their inability to fund a home from their own resources.

Objects

ALMSHOUSES FOR POOR PERSONS OF GOOD CHARACTER WHO FROM AGE, ILL-HEALTH, ACCIDENT OR INFIRMITY ARE UNABLE TO MAINTAIN THEMSELVES BY THEIR OWN EXERTIONS: SPOUSES OR PARTNERS ARE ELIGIBLE FOR APPOINTMENT, PROVIDED BOTH ARE QUALIFIED AS AFORESAID.

Area of benefit: BITTESWELL

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 generated a net income of £27,902 and holds total funds of £518,306, comprising property, investments, and cash. The Treasurer reports a healthy financial position with sufficient reserves to meet future liabilities, although a quinquennial inspection is due which may require additional expenditure. The charity is exempt from audit and has no outstanding loans.

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 4 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 policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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).

• National Lottery Community Fund — “Our extensive Garden Paving at Powell Row was Grant Funded by the National Lottery Community Fund.” (source page)

Trustees · trustee networks

• Adrian Foster
• Bridget Higgins
• Kathryn Jane Edwards · trustee of 1 other charity
• Tim Adams
• Tony Kenton

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

Operates in: Leicestershire

Income and spending

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