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The City of London Almshouses

Provision of almshouses for persons who are in need by reason of poverty financial hardship or old age. In appointing residents of the almshouses belonging to the Charity the Trustee shall give preference to Freemen of the City of London or their...

  • 1 trustee
  • Income £480k (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

No individual trustees are listed on the register.

Also 1 organisation acting as trustee: The City of London Corporation.

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Accommodation/housing
Where
Lambeth
Registered
1991

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£480k£517k
  • 2024£312k£431k
  • 2023£326k£349k
Earlier years
  • 2022£326k£223k
  • 2021£354k£270k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

Provision of almshouses for persons who are in need by reason of poverty financial hardship or old age. In appointing residents of the almshouses belonging to the Charity the Trustee shall give preference to Freemen of the City of London or their wives, husbands, civil partners, widows, widowers, sons or daughters. Upon the death or setting aside of the appointment of one of a married couple or one partner in a civil partnership of residents the Trustee may permit the other of them to remain a resident of the Charity and to continue in occupation of the Almshouse theretofore occupied by the married couple or civil partners or to occupy such other room or rooms as those Trustee [sic] allot or those Trustee [sic] may set aside his or her appointment.

Board analysis

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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£480k latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1005857
Status
Registered
Governing document
SCHEME DATED 30/07/1991AS AMENDED BY SCHEME DATED 26/07/2011 as amended on 16 Sept 2026
Contact on the register
02073321571 · Grants@cityoflondon.gov.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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