AGED MERCHANT SEAMEN'S HOMES

Registered charity 230292 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as AGED MERCHANT SEAMEN'S HOMES AND ANOTHER, SUNDERLAND AGED MERCHANT SEAMEN'S HOMES

1) REPAIR AND MAINTENANCE OF ALMSHOUSES FOR DESERVING POOR PERSONS WHO ARE RETIRED SEAMEN, WIDOWS OR DAUGHTERS BEING NOT LESS THAN FIFTY YEARS OF AGE.2) BENEFIT OF THE OCCUPANTS OF THE SAID ALMSHOUSES.

Objects

1) REPAIR AND MAINTENANCE OF ALMSHOUSES FOR DESERVING POOR PERSONS WHO ARE RETIRED SEAMEN, WIDOWS OR DAUGHTERS BEING NOT LESS THAN FIFTY YEARS OF AGE. 2) BENEFIT OF THE OCCUPANTS OF THE SAID ALMSHOUSES.

Area of benefit: COUNTY BOROUGH OF SUNDERLAND

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Sunderland, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The charity reported a retained loss of £1,265,773 for the 15-month period ended 31 March 2026, significantly reducing its net assets from £1,922,305 to £656,532. Unrestricted reserves stood at £350,762, which the trustees consider below their stated policy target of maintaining at least twelve months of unrestricted expenditure. The accounts were prepared on a going concern basis, with the trustees considering it appropriate for the foreseeable future.

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.

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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~33.4 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (100% 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (05/09/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• HENDON HOMES MANAGEMENT COMPANY LIMITED

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

Operates in: Sunderland

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE MELKSHAM ALMSHOUSES CHARITIES.

• THE MELKSHAM ALMSHOUSES CHARITIES income £35k
• THE MCDONALD AND TRIMMER ALMSHOUSE CHARITY income £108k
• METROPOLITAN BENEFIT SOCIETIES' ALMSHOUSES income £284k
• THE GEORGE GIBSON ALMSHOUSES FOUNDATION TRUST income £438k
• JAMES SMITH'S ALMSHOUSE CHARITY income £88k
• GLYMPTON ALMSHOUSES income £43k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.