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Registered charity · Hertfordshire

Kings Cottages Trust

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £103k (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
1964

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£103k£61k
  • 2024£96k£46k
  • 2023£85k£74k
Earlier years
  • 2022£85k£58k
  • 2021£73k£47k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

ALMSHOUSES FOR POOR AGED PERSONS WHO HAVE RESIDED IN EITHER THE URBAN DISTRICT OF BISHOP'S STORTFORD OR THE PARISH OF THORLEY FOR NOT LESS THAN 20 YEARS NEXT PRECEDING THE TIME OF THEIR APPOINTMENT.

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.

8 trustees on the board

12.6y median 10y
average tenure
25y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

14.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (2)

1
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 8Disability 1Education/training 1General Charitable Purposes 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.

Health and social care 1

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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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£103k latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
232955
Status
Registered
Governing document
INDENTURE DATED 11 SEP 1907AS AMENDED ON 06 MAY 1909AS AMENDED ON 31 OCT 1911AS AMENDED ON 29 DEC 1913AS AMENDED BY SCHEME DATED 01 MAR 1972AS AMENDED BY DEED DATED 24 MAY 2005AS AMENDED ON 27 NOV 2019AS AMENDED ON 07 DEC 2023
Contact on the register
07896 483218 · gill.hawkins2@hotmail.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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