SIR ROBERT GEFFERY'S ALMSHOUSE TRUST

Registered charity 219153 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SIR ROBERT GEFFERY'S HOMES, SIR ROBERT GEFFERY'S HOMES TRUST, SIR ROBERT GEFFERY'S TRUST, SIR ROBERT GEFFREY'S ALMSHOUSE TRUST

Provides housing and related support to elderly people through two sheltered housing schemes in Hampshire. Makes grants to organisations providing educational activities for children and young people up to the age of 25 from disadvantaged backgrounds and to promote iron-related educational and heritage activities.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income for the year was £2,937,458, resulting in a net income of £1,622,184 after charitable expenditure of £2,367,066. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £6,355,089, which the Trustee considers sufficient to cover major works and maintain operations. The auditor confirmed the use of the going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Buzzacott Audit LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~82.4 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (80% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• THE IRONMONGERS' TRUST COMPANY · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland

Income and spending

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Shared trustees with funders

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• THE IRONMONGERS' TRUST COMPANY — trustee here and at SIR ROBERT GEFFERY'S ALMSHOUSE TRUST

Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE GEORGE GIBSON ALMSHOUSES FOUNDATION TRUST.

• THE GEORGE GIBSON ALMSHOUSES FOUNDATION TRUST income £438k
• THE ABERFORD ALMSHOUSES income £177k
• SALISBURY CITY ALMSHOUSE AND WELFARE CHARITIES income £2.5m
• GREENWICH CHARITY OF WILLIAM HATCLIFFE AND THE MISSES SMITH income £460k
• THE DRAPERS' ALMSHOUSE CHARITY income £1.6m
• THE CITY OF LONDON ALMSHOUSES income £480k

Side by side with its peers

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