COURTAULD HOMES OF REST

Registered charity 218726 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To administer 20 (twenty) almshouses for occupation by senior citizens who have lived or worked in Halstead for not less than 25 (twenty five) years with priority given to former employees of Samuel Courtauld & Co.

Objects

TWENTY HOMES OF REST AND THE MAINTENANCE THEREOF FOR PERSONS OF EITHER SEX WHO SHALL HAVE RESIDED OR WORKED IN HALSTEAD FOR NOT LESS THAN TWENTY FIVE YEARS, AND WHO SHALL BEAR A GOOD CHARACTER FOR HONEST SOBRIETY AND STEADY WORK. (PREFERENCE GIVEN TO THOSE WHO HAVE WORKED AT THE HALSTEAD FACTORY).

Area of benefit: HALSTEAD

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

Causes: Accommodation/housing · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £450,443.29, derived from its General and Extraordinary Repair Funds. The independent examiner confirmed that no material matters came to attention during the examination of the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2025.

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 3 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 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

• MR TONY SHELTONchair
• CHRISTOPHER PATRICK BUTLER DL · trustee of 1 other charity
• CLAIRE JACQUELINE CANNON
• George Courtauld
• JOHN WILSON MINERS · trustee of 1 other charity
• MRS G COURTAULD,
• Malcolm Trevor Root FGRA
• PETER ALAN ROBERTSON
• Sarah Jane Wade

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

Operates in: Essex

Income and spending

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