THE CHARTERHOUSE

Registered charity 225257 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q7587016 · Wikipedia

An Almshouse charity offering general sheltered housing for the elderly (aged 60 and over). The accommodation comprises 35 self-contained flats with on-site warden based on one site in central Hull, East Yorkshire.

Objects

ALMSHOUSES FOR POOR PERSONS OF GOOD CHARACTER WHO ARE NOT LESS THAN SIXTY YEARS OF AGE.

Area of benefit: KINGSTON UPON HULL

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Kingston upon Hull, City of, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with an operational surplus of £108,077, improving on the prior year's deficit. Unrestricted fund balances increased to £4,705,733, supported by significant net gains on investments. The trustees confirmed that adequate resources exist to continue operations for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Smailes Goldie. 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.

• 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• Cllr Tracy Neal · trustee of 1 other charity
• Councillor Abi Singh
• Councillor Shaun McMurray · trustee of 1 other charity
• JOHN L FAREHAM · trustee of 1 other charity
• Paul Mann · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev JAMES HARGREAVE · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Kingston Upon Hull City

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MRS GELLS ALMSHOUSE CHARITY.

• MRS GELLS ALMSHOUSE CHARITY income £32k
• CROYDON ALMSHOUSES income £1.9m
• HARCOURT ALMSHOUSE CHARITY income £30k
• THE DAUBENY ALMSHOUSE CHARITY income £36k
• HEZMALHALCH'S CHARITY income £22k
• DARTFORD ALMSHOUSE CHARITY income £325k

Side by side with its peers

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