Registered charity · St. Albans
William Powell's Charity
- 4 trustees
- Income £8k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 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
- Hertfordshire
- Registered
- 1962
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£8k£6k
- 2024£8k£9k
- 2023£8k£5k
Earlier years
- 2022£7k£13k
- 2021£7k£6k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable objects
TO APPLY THE INCOME OF THE CHARITY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE RESIDENTS IN THE ALMSHOUSES OF THE CHARITY. RESIDENTS SHALL BE PERSONS IN NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS OF GOOD CHARACTER WHO ARE RESIDENT IN THE CITY AND DISTRICT OF ST. ALBANS IN SUCH MANNER AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT.
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.
4 trustees on the board
- Julian Mark Edwards Chair since 2018
- Hilary Knight since 2013
- James Richard Brierley since 2014
- Joanna Mary Herron since 2021
Trustees past 6 years
- Julian Mark Edwards Chair since 2018
- Hilary Knight since 2013
- James Richard Brierley since 2014
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (4)
- Julian Mark Edwards Chair since 2018
- Hilary Knight since 2013
- James Richard Brierley since 2014
- Joanna Mary Herron since 2021
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Gaps to watch
- No commercial or business experience on the board
- 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
- 210771
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- SCHEME OF 17 AUGUST 1978 AS AMENDED BY SCHEME DATED 11 JANUARY 2006
- Contact on the register
- 07816414496
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 27th 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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