Registered charity · Rochester

Foord Almshouses

11 trustees
Income £696k (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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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: Medway
Registered: 1963

Income and spending

YearIncomeSpending
2025£696k£726k
2024£653k£744k
2023£594k£760k

Earlier years

2022£583k£590k
2021£596k£476k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

ALMSHOUSES FOR POOR, AGED OR INFIRM PERSONS WHO ARE RESIDENT IN THE CITY OF ROCHESTER OR THE NEIGHBOURHOOD AT THE TIME OF APPOINTMENT OR SUCH OTHER NEEDY PERSONS AS THE TRUSTEES APPOINT.

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.

11 trustees on the board

4.2y median 2.5y

average tenure

15y

longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

Albert Pilcher since 2018
Lynne Capeling since 2011
Markham Chesterfield since 2018

5.1y

average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (11)

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 11

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

Other services 1

Gaps to watch

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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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.

2021

2022

2023

2024

2025

incomespending£696k latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025

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.

15.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 6.8 in 2021

8 from 12 in 2021

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: 214466
Status: Registered
Governing document: SCHEME OF THE CHARITY COMMISSIONERS DATED 17 OCTOBER 1960, AS AMENDED BY SCHEMES DATED 5 AUGUST 1977, 15 MARCH 2000, AND 27 APRIL 2004.
Contact on the register: 01634844138 · office@thefoordalmshouses.co.uk
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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