The Wilverley Association, Trading as Everwood Care Charity

Registered charity 237911 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FOREST OAKS, LITTLE HAVEN, THE WILVERLEY ASSOCIATION, THE WILVERLEY ASSOCIATION LIMITED

To express the teachings of Christ by caring for the aged by means of the provision of residential accommodation (including nursing, medical and other care) for retired people of professional and similar backgrounds. The charity operates two homes offering care with nursing to people aged 65 and over at Brockenhurst (Forest Oaks, 46 beds) and Dibden Purlieu, Southampton (Little Haven, 41 beds).

Objects

3.1 THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY (THE “OBJECTS”) ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:-3.1.1 TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF ELDERLY PEOPLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH CHRISTIAN VALUES IRRESPECTIVE OF FAITH, RACE, COLOUR, GENDER OR CREED IN ANY MANNER WHICH NOW OR HEREAFTER MAY BE DEEMED BY LAW TO BE CHARITABLE;3.1.2 TO FURTHER SUCH OTHER EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: New Forest, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £88,857 for the year ended 31 March 2025, following a deficit in the prior year. Free unrestricted reserves were positive at £30,495, which is below the trustees' stated policy target of three months' normal charitable expenditure. The trustees note adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Azets Audit Services. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission. 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
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 4 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2024 (received 23/05/2025, 112 days after the 31/01/2025 due date); year ending 31/03/2023 (received 28/11/2024, 302 days after the 31/01/2024 due date); year ending 31/03/2022 (received 10/02/2023, 10 days after the 31/01/2023 due date); year ending 31/03/2021 (received 17/02/2022, 17 days after the 31/01/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00817104

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• DELACOUR, Ruth Margaret — director, appointed 15/01/2025on trustee list
• SMITH, Geoffrey Brian — director, appointed 15/01/2025on trustee list
• BIDDLECOMBE, Carole — director, appointed 30/08/2023on trustee list

Official officers record.

CQC provider record: The Wilverley Association — Registered, 2 registered locations, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 18/05/2022.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~6.9 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (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: 0.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Carole BIDDLECOMBE
• Geoffrey Smith
• Julian Hicks
• Michael Robin Chavasse Fielding Jones
• Ruth Delacour

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

Operates in: Hampshire · Portsmouth City · Southampton City

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Evergreen Care UK.

• Evergreen Care UK income £797k
• WIRRELDERLY income £6.4m
• FARLEY HOSPITAL income £88k
• EMILY BENTLEY HOMES income £31k
• BEVERLEY CONSOLIDATED CHARITY income £1.3m
• BROADENING CHOICES FOR OLDER PEOPLE income £10.0m

Side by side with its peers

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