Registered charity (CIO) · Suffolk
The George Gibson Almshouses Foundation Trust
- 8 trustees
- Income £438k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
- ROY MAYChair · since 1990
- Deborah Stacey HargreavesTrustee · since 2022
- Dr Malini WaceTrustee · since 2012
- Edward Francis Harman RussellTrustee · since 2024
- Mary Alice Elizabeth EastTrustee · since 2015
- Michael John DrakeTrustee · since 2008
- Michael Leslie LovegroveTrustee · since 2013
- Professor Sidney William RickettsTrustee · since 2015
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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People on this board also serve on 3 other charities:
- Bottisham United Charities · 1 shared trustee
- Samuel Shepherd · 1 shared trustee
- The Moulton Charity · 1 shared trustee
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About
- What it does
- General Charitable Purposes
- Where
- Cambridgeshire, Suffolk
- Registered
- 2018
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£438k£473k
- 2024£528k£487k
- 2023£525k£386k
Earlier years
- 2022£699k£465k
- 2021£380k£451k
Charitable objects
FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, TO RELIEVE THE NEED OF PERSONS RESIDENT IN NEWMARKET AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS (INCLUDING THE FORMER ADMINISTRATIVE COUNTY OF WEST SUFFOLK) WHO ARE 55 YEARS OF AGE OR OVER AND IN NEED OF FINANCIAL SUPPORT AND ASSISTANCE WITH THE PROVISION OF HEALTHCARE AND HOUSING BY SUCH MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE PROVISION OF ALMSHOUSE ACCOMMODATION
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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.
8 trustees on the board
- ROY MAY Chair since 1990
- Deborah Stacey Hargreaves since 2022
- Dr Malini Wace since 2012
- Edward Francis Harman Russell since 2024
- Michael John Drake since 2008
- Michael Leslie Lovegrove since 2013
- Mary Alice Elizabeth East since 2015
- Professor Sidney William Ricketts since 2015
Trustees past 6 years
- ROY MAY Chair since 1990
- Dr Malini Wace since 2012
- Michael John Drake since 2008
- Michael Leslie Lovegrove since 2013
- Mary Alice Elizabeth East since 2015
- Professor Sidney William Ricketts since 2015
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (6)
- Deborah Stacey Hargreaves since 2022
- Dr Malini Wace since 2012
- Michael John Drake since 2008
- Michael Leslie Lovegrove since 2013
- Mary Alice Elizabeth East since 2015
- Professor Sidney William Ricketts since 2015
Portfolio (2)
- ROY MAY Chair since 1990
- Edward Francis Harman Russell since 2024
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
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
- 1176924
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 31 Jan 2018
- Contact on the register
- 01638578222 · georgegibsontrust@gmail.com
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 13th September 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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