HELYAR'S ALMSHOUSES

Registered charity 245432 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

PROVISION OF ACCOMODATION FOR PERSONS OVER 55 IN THE LOCATION OF THE VILLAGE OF EAST COKER

Objects

ALMSHOUSES FOR POOR PERSONS OF GOOD CHARACTER OF NOT LESS THAN 55 YEARS OF AGE WHO EITHER WERE BORN IN THE ANCIENT PARISH OF EAST COKER OR HAVE RESIDED THEREIN FOR NOT LESS THAN 7 YEARS. TRUSTEES MAY PROVIDE ALMSPEOPLE WITH ANY NECESSARY ATTENDANCE IN CASE OF SERIOUS ILLNESS OR PERMANENT INFIRMITY.

Area of benefit: ANCIENT PARISH OF EAST COKER.

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

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts for Helyar Alms Houses show a net income of £4,839.94 for the year ended 31 December 2024, resulting in a closing balance of £4,839.94. The document details significant expenditure on maintenance, utilities, and pest control, with no evidence of external audit or formal reserves policy.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 2 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Financial Conduct Authority. 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• 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
• Volunteer management

Trustees · trustee networks

• Christopher Roy Thornton
• Dr Philip George Frederick Raines
• James Card
• Josephine Claire Bickerton
• Paul Richardson
• Richard William Taylor Comstive
• liz Barnes

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

Operates in: Somerset

Income and spending

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