FRANCES DARLINGTON CHARITY

Registered charity 225140 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity provides homes for the elderly in the area of benefice.

Objects

FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE RESIDENTS IN THE ALMSHOUSES OF THE CHARITY OR ANY OF THEM IN SUCH MANNER AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT FROM TIME TO TIME. (AREA OF BENEFIT, ECCLESIASTICAL PARISHES OF CHRIST CHURCH, CHARNOCK RICHARD, EUXTON, ST. LAWRENCE AND ALL SAINTS, CHORLEY, COPPULL PARISH, COPPULL ST. JOHN, WRIGHTINGON AND ECCLESTON)

Area of benefit: SEE OBJECTS

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

Registered contact address: Chorley, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted reserves of £125,566 and free reserves of £39,479 at the end of the year, with a reserves policy aimed at maintaining six months of operating costs. The trustees confirm that the charity is in a strong financial and operational position and that current resources are sufficient to continue as a going concern for the foreseeable future.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Homes England. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• 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
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 5 were received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2025 (received 03/11/2026, 3 days after the 31/10/2026 due date); year ending 31/12/2024 (received 05/11/2025, 5 days after the 31/10/2025 due date); year ending 31/12/2023 (received 14/11/2024, 14 days after the 31/10/2024 due date); year ending 31/12/2022 (received 26/01/2024, 87 days after the 31/10/2023 due date); year ending 31/12/2021 (received 01/11/2022, 1 day after the 31/10/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• MALCOLM COOPER STEWARTchair
• DAVID BENNETT
• ELIZABETH ANN LATHAM
• HAROLD HEATON · trustee of 1 other charity
• JULIE HEATON
• MARGARET ALICE STEWART · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev JORDAN McDERMOTT

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

Operates in: Lancashire

Income and spending

Common questions

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Side by side with its peers

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