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Registered charity · Oxfordshire

GOD's House in Ewelme

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £1.0m (2024)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

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
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Accommodation/housing
Where
Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire
Website
www.ewelmealmshouses.org (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1962

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£1.0m£1.1m
  • 2023£1.1m£995k
  • 2022£957k£1.4m
Earlier years
  • 2021£955k£1.0m
  • 2020£1.0m£1.1m
Charitable objects

INCOME TO BE APPLIED TO THE COST OF MAINTAINING THE PROPERTY OF THE CHARITY AND MAINTAINING THE ALMSHOUSES OF THE CHARITY AND FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE RESIDENTS THEREIN. TO MAKE AN ANNUAL PAYMENT AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT TO THE CHARITY CALLED THE EWELME EXHIBITION ENDOWMENT. IF THE REMAINING INCOME IS NOT REQUIRED FOR PAYMENTS PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED THE TRUSTEES MAY:A. PAY A YEARLY SUM AS THEY THINK FIT TO THE EWELME EDUCATIONALFOUNDATION (CHARITY NO. 309281);B. MAKE GRANTS TO OTHER ALMSHOUSE CHARITIES IN OXFORDSHIRE, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, BERKSHIRE, HAMPSHIRE AND WILTSHIREC. PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTY IN THE VICINITY OF THE CHARITY’S ESTATES IN OXFORDSHIRE, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE AND HAMPSHIRE BY PROVIDING GRANTS TO ORGANISATIONS WORKING TO PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTY.

Board analysis for researchers

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.

1.7y median 1y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

15y
average years in governance
5
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Accommodation/housing 7Education/training 7The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 7Arts/culture/heritage/science 1Economic/community Development/employment 1The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Education 5Other services 3Professional services 2

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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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£1.0m latest income
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

14.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 19.5 in 2020

4 from 3 in 2020
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
200581
Status
Registered
Governing document
SCHEME DATED 23/06/1953AS AMENDED BY SCHEME DATED 22/04/1958AS AMENDED BY SCHEME DATED 15/04/1969AS AMENDED BY SCHEME DATED 31/03/1976AS AMENDED BY SCHEME DATED 22/11/1985AS AMENDED BY SCHEME DATED 08/08/1986AS AMENDED BY SCHEME DATED 21/07/1992AS AMENDED BY SCHEME DATED 25/06/1998AS AMENDED BY SCHEME DATED 30/12/2011 AS AMENDED ON 24 FEB 2011 AS AMENDED ON 17 JUL 2018AS AMENDED ON 12 JUN 2024
Contact on the register
07518 297138 · trustmanager@ewelmealmshouses.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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