CORTON ALMSHOUSE CHARITY

Registered charity 291163 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To provide almshouses for poor persons resident in the Parish of Corton.

Objects

ALMSHOUSES FOR POOR PERSONS WHO (EXCEPT IN SPECIAL CASES TO BE APPROVED BY THE COMMISSIONERS) ARE OF THE FOLLOWING CLASSES AND SHALL BE APPOINTED IN THE FOLLOWING ORDER OF PREFERENCE: (1) POOR PERSONS RESIDENT IN THE AREA OF THE ANCIENT PARISH OF CORTON, (2) POOR PERSONS WHO HAVE AT ANY TIME RESIDED IN THE SAID AREA FOR NOT LESS THAN THREE YEARS. (3) POOR PERSONS RESIDENT IN THE AREA COMPRISING THE PARISHES OF BLUNDESTON AND LOUND, IN THE COUNTY OF SUFFOLK AND THAT PART OF THE PARISH OF HOPTON ON SEA, IN THE COUNTY OF NORFOLK, WHICH LIES OUTSIDE THE AREA OF THE SAID ANCIENT PARISH.

Area of benefit: SEE OBJECTS

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 charity reported a net incoming resource surplus of £29,126 and total unrestricted funds of £133,254. The trustees confirmed that funds cover future known expenditure and described the financial position as satisfactory. No specific reserves policy target is stated, though the trustees aim to leave a small balance in hand after budgeting for repairs.

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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• Gillian Anne Armstrongchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Gary Aurthur Brown · trustee of 1 other charity
• Paul Geaffray Ashdown · trustee of 1 other charity
• Peter Leonard Armstrong · trustee of 2 other charities
• Susan Groome · trustee of 1 other charity
• WENDY SHIELA RODGERS · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Suffolk

Income and spending

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