Registered charity (CIO) · Carnforth
Tattersall's Almshouses
- 6 trustees
- Income £35k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
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
- Cumbria, Lancashire
- Website
- www.davis-bowring.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2015
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£35k£43k
- 2024£32k£30k
- 2023£30k£17k
Earlier years
- 2022£29k£40k
- 2021£26k£16k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable objects
THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS TO PROVIDE ALMSHOUSE ACCOMMODATION TO POOR PERSONS OF GOOD CHARACTER WHO ARE NOT LESS THAN FIFTY YEARS OF AGE (EXCEPT IN THE CASE OF A MARRIED COUPLE WHERE ONLY ONE OF THEM NEEDS BE OF THAT AGE).IN SELECTING PERSONS, PREFERENCE SHALL BE GIVEN FIRST TO PERSONS RESIDENT IN THE AREA OF THE CIVIL PARISHES OF MILNTHORPE AND HEVERSHAM, SECONDLY TO PERSONS RESIDENT IN THE AREA OF THE CIVIL PARISHES OF HINCASTER, LEVENS, STAINTON, SEDGWICK, PRESTON RICHARD AND PRESTON PATRICK, THIRDLY TO PERSONS RESIDENT IN THE AREA OF THE CIVIL PARISH OF BEETHAM AND FOURTHLY TO PERSONS RESIDENT IN KENDAL AND THE LOCAL AUTHORITY DISTRICT OF SOUTH LAKELAND.
Board analysis
Board DNA
How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.
6 trustees on the board
- John Hippolyte Gorrigan Chair since 2017
- Bryan Kerr since 2019
- Karen Wendy Merckel since 2017
- Susan Odling Villiers- Smith since 2014
- Stirling Gary Hulme since 2023
- Zainab Houghton since 2022
Trustees past 6 years
- John Hippolyte Gorrigan Chair since 2017
- Bryan Kerr since 2019
- Karen Wendy Merckel since 2017
- Susan Odling Villiers- Smith since 2014
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (5)
- John Hippolyte Gorrigan Chair since 2017
- Karen Wendy Merckel since 2017
- Susan Odling Villiers- Smith since 2014
- Stirling Gary Hulme since 2023
- Zainab Houghton since 2022
Portfolio (1)
- Bryan Kerr since 2019
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
Gaps to watch
- Several long-serving trustees could step down together
- Narrow spread of causes across the board
Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.
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Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1163429
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CIO - Foundation Registered 07 Sep 2015
- Contact on the register
- 01524274412 · tammy.skelton@davis-bowring.co.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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