GOODACRE'S ALMSHOUSE CHARITY

Registered charity 218757 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as GOODACRE ALMSHOUSES

Manage accommodation for single women in need

Objects

PROVISION AND MAINTENANCE OF ALMSHOUSES AND PROVISION OF BENEFITS FOR POOR WIDOWS OF GOOD CHARACTER WHO FROM AGE, ILL-HEALTH, ACCIDENT OR BY THEIR OWN EXERTIONS, WITH A PREFERANCE FOR WIDOWS QUALIFIED AS AFORESAID WHO SHALL HAVE BECOME REDUCED BY MISFORTUNE FROM BETTER CIRCUMSTANCES.

Area of benefit: ASHBY PARVA

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 £30,728 in general reserves to cover day-to-day expenses. The trustees report a current account balance of £16,031.04 and note that the charity is saving towards a major re-roofing project to ensure the almshouses remain viable. An independent examiner confirmed that no material matters came to their attention regarding the accounts.

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 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
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Trustees · trustee networks

• HELEN STONEchair
• ANNE DEAN
• Edith Mould
• Elaine Audrey Derrick
• JOHN DUNCAN GOODACRE
• Neil Durban Bannister

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

Operates in: Leicestershire

Income and spending

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