Boulton Cottage Homes Trust

Registered charity 225690 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BOULTON'S COTTAGE HOMES TRUST

To provide low cost accomodation to pensioners or members of the congregation of Bethesda Church, Bebington, Wirral

Objects

HOMES FOR PERSONS WHO ARE MEMBERS OF THE ASSEMBLY OF CHRISTIANS MEETING IN THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST AT THE MEETING PLACE KNOWN AS BETHESDA, BEBINGTON, OR WHO BELONG TO ANY CHRISTIAN PROTESTANT DENOMINATION. THE PERSONS SHALL BE WIDOWS AND OTHERS WHO BECAUSE OF THEIR AGE OR ILL-HEALTH ARE THOUGHT WORTHY OF ASSISTANCE.

Area of benefit: BEBINGTON

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

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Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds total £5,489,019, which exceeds the trustees' stated policy target of maintaining reserves equivalent to twelve months' expenditure. The charity reported a net incoming resource of £811,092 for the year, driven by significant gains on investment revaluations, and confirms it has adequate resources to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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.

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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• 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
• 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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2022)

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (99% 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: 0.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.0%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (28/11/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr FRANK PETER GOPSILL · trustee of 1 other charity
• JENNIFER RUTH GOPSILL · trustee of 1 other charity
• John Declan Gately · trustee of 1 other charity
• MICHAEL IAIN FRASER GOPSILL · trustee of 1 other charity
• Steven William Greenall · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Wirral

Income and spending

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with A H BOULTON TRUST.

• A H BOULTON TRUST income £135k
• THE PG & NJ BOULTON TRUST LIMITED income £202k
• POTTER'S HOUSE CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP UK BOLTON CHURCH income £185k
• PARKVIEW CHAPEL, BOTESDALE income £274k
• AL-JAMIA DARUL QURAN BOLTON UK income £240k
• CLAREMONT CHURCH BOLTON income £105k

Side by side with its peers

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