WYCOMBE ALMHOUSES

Registered charity 227641 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WYCOMBE ALMSHOUSES

The principal activity of the charity is the provision of housing for people in need in the High Wycombe area.

Objects

ALMSHOUSES FOR NEEDY AND DESERVING PERSONS OF NOT LESS THAN FIFTY YEARS OF AGE AND OF GOOD CHARACTER WHO THROUGH MISFORTUNE NOT OF THEIR OWN FAULT ARE IN REDUCED CIRCUMSTANCES AND IN GREATEST NEED OF ASSISTANCE AND WHO HAVE RESIDED IN HIGH WYCOMBE NOT LESS THAN FIVE YEARS BEFORE APPOINTED.

Area of benefit: HIGH WYCOMBE

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 unrestricted funds total £980,216, providing a strong financial position relative to annual expenditure of £152,204. The charity reports no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern for the next twelve months. Additionally, there are no creditors due after more than one year, indicating no long-term debt obligations.

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 2 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
• Paying staff
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £237k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrea Baughan · trustee of 2 other charities
• BRIAN PEARCE
• Catherine Oliver · trustee of 1 other charity
• Katrina Suzanne Atkins Wood
• Lesley Clarke OBE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nicola Welch

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

Operates in: Buckinghamshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WYCOMBE MULTICULTURAL ORGANISATION.

• WYCOMBE MULTICULTURAL ORGANISATION income £486k
• WESTMINSTER ALMSHOUSES FOUNDATION income £840k
• WIMBLEDON ENDOWED ALMSHOUSE CHARITY income £196k
• WOBURN 1986 income £168k
• THE FLOOD CHARITY income £117k
• GROWING HOPE HIGH WYCOMBE income £119k

Side by side with its peers

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