THE NANCY DERBYSHIRE TRUST

Registered charity 237996 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The trust owns six almshouses at St Silas Road, Blackburn, where it provides accommodation for the elderly residents. The trust has more recently acquired one additional property which is a flat at Fairhope Court Blackburn which was transferred to it from another Charity pursuant to an order of the Charity Commission and a resident has now been appointed to occupy this flat.

Objects

(1) ALMSHOUSES FOR POOR PERSONS OF GOOD CHARACTER WHO HAVE RESIDED WITHIN SEVEN MILES OF THE ALMSHOUSES BUILDINGS FOR AT LEAST FIVE YEARS. (2) ANY RESIDUE OF INCOME MAY BE DISTRIBUTED AMONGST POOR PERSONS HAVING QUALIFICATIONS SIMILAR TO THE ALMSPEOPLE.

Area of benefit: BLACKBURN

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds total £380,241, providing a significant buffer above the stated need to cover normal expenditure and maintain a contingency reserve. The charity reported a net incoming resource of £448 from charitable activities against £38,706 in expenditure, indicating that operational costs were largely covered by investment and rental income. The trustees confirmed adequate resources for the foreseeable future, with no material uncertainties identified.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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.

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (02/05/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• RICHARD BENTLEY PRESTchair
• ADAM JAMES BROMLEY
• David Wilson Kemp
• John Paul Dignan
• Sonya Ann Jolly
• Valerie Margaret Edge · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Blackburn With Darwen

Income and spending

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