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Registered charity · Norfolk

The Backham Almshouses

  • 6 trustees
  • Income £22k (2024)
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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
Accommodation/housing
Where
Norfolk
Registered
1963

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£22k£29k
  • 2023£25k£23k
  • 2022£25k£16k
Earlier years
  • 2021£27k£29k
  • 2020£25k£20k
Charitable objects

ALMSHOUSES FOR POOR OLD MARRIED COUPLES (LIVING TOGETHER), WIDOWS, WIDOWERS, SPINSTERS AND BACHELORS, NOT LESS THAN SIXTY YEARS OLD AND WHO HAVE RESIDED IN KING'S LYNN FOR AT LEAST TWENTY YEARS.

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.

6 trustees on the board

3.5y median 3y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

3.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

Portfolio (6)

0
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 6Education/training 1General Charitable Purposes 1Religious Activities 1

Gaps to watch

  • No commercial or business experience on 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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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£22k latest income
167 days
Latest accounts filed after the due dateiFiled after the due dateDate the accounts were received minus the reporting due date, latest filed cycle, Charity Commission register.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
208498
Status
Registered
Governing document
TRUST DEED DATED 10 JULY 1888 AND UNREPORTED VOLUME 128 PAGE 180
Contact on the register
07713 162 816
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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