THE FORBES ALMSHOUSES

Registered charity 236542 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The administration of seven almshouses in East Meon, Hampshire.

Objects

ALMSHOUSES FOR POOR PERSONS OF GOOD CHARACTER OF UPWARDS OF 65 YEARS OF AGE WHO HAVE RESIDED IN THE PARISHES OF EAST MEON AND LANGRISH FOR NOT LESS THAN TWO YEARS NEXT PRECEDING THE TIME OF APPOINTMENT AND WHO FROM AGE, ILL HEALTH, ACCIDENT OR INFIRMITY ARE WHOLLY OR IN PART UNABLE TO MAINTAIN THEMSELVES BY THEIR OWN EXERTIONS.

Area of benefit: PARISHES OF EAST MEON AND LANGRISH

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 the charity enjoyed a strong financial year with almost full occupancy and under-budget repair costs. Reserves and the endowment fund held with M&G performed strongly, showing considerable growth in the Extraordinary Repair Fund. The charity reported an operating surplus for the year ended 31 December 2025.

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

What the accounts disclose

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.

• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Trustees · trustee networks

• Richard John Alastair Brown
• Victor Anthony Galliano
• WILLIAM THOMAS PERCIVAL TYRWHITT-DRAKE

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

Operates in: Hampshire

Income and spending

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