ROBERT BIRD COTTAGE HOMES CHARITY

Registered charity 233341 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ROBERT BIRD'S COTTAGE HOMES, THE ROBERT BIRD COTTAGE HOMES CHARITY

Providing housing for retired people with low financial support

Objects

MAINTAIN PROPERTY OF THE CHARITY AND APPLY THE INCOME FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE RESIDENTS IN THE ALMSHOUSES OF THE CHARITY

Area of benefit: CREWKERNE

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: Somerset, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's financial position is sound, with a net surplus of £24,180 for the year ended 7 August 2025. Total net assets increased to £545,894, comprising investments valued at £436,035 and tangible assets of £46,199. The trustees hold reserves of £480,506 specifically for cyclical maintenance and extraordinary repairs.

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 3 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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• CHRISTINE JOY ELAINE RAWE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ian Stewart-Pearson
• James Patrick McAlister
• Kevin David Province · trustee of 1 other charity
• Philippa Louise Smith · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Christopher James Davis · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Somerset

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE QUEEN ALEXANDRA COTTAGE HOMES.

• THE QUEEN ALEXANDRA COTTAGE HOMES income £2.5m
• BUTTERFIELD HOMES income £30k
• THE BERROW COTTAGE HOMES income £226k
• Ridgegate Home income £1.0m
• BRADBURY COMMUNITY HOUSE CHARITY income £142k
• JACOB WRIGHT'S COTTAGES income £29k

Side by side with its peers

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