THE COOPER AND ADKINSON ALMSHOUSE CHARITY

Registered charity 245824 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Providing, maintaining and managing six Almshouses for persons of good character who are in need and are inhabitants of Canterbury

Objects

TO APPLY THE SAID INCOME IN OR TOWARDS THE COST OF REPAIRING AND MODERNISING THE ALMSHOUSES BELONGING TO THE SAID CHARITY.

Area of benefit: CITY OF CANTERBURY

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 reported a net expenditure of £18,082 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £495,200 to £477,118. The trustees confirmed the charity has adequate resources to continue as a going concern, with unrestricted reserves of £131,672 available for everyday expenditure. Occupancy levels dropped to 87.5% from 100% in the prior year, while maintenance expenditure increased to £35,957.

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.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Homes England. 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls 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

Trustees · trustee networks

• CHRISTOPHER BLAKE WACHERchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• CANON CHRISTOPHER GOWER · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kathleen Lovell · trustee of 2 other charities
• Michael Keeler-Walker · trustee of 1 other charity
• Pamela Coare · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Mary Kells · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rosemary Newington · trustee of 1 other charity
• Stefan Anderson · trustee of 2 other charities
• Thomas Blake Wacher · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Kent

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