Registered charity · Colchester
The Willie Almshouse Charity
- 9 trustees
- Income £47k (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
- Essex
- Registered
- 1964
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£47k£24k
- 2024£50k£30k
- 2023£42k£37k
Earlier years
- 2022£39k£22k
- 2021£35k£15k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable objects
MAINTENANCE OF SIX ALMSHOUSES FOR AGED POOR OF THE PARISH OF GREAT TOTHAM. THREE OF SUCH ALMSHOUSES TO BE OCCUPIED BY WIDOWS AND THREE BY MARRIED COUPLES ALL OF WHOM HAVE RESIDED IN THE PARISH FOR 20 YEARS. SCHOOL ROOM FOR THE USE OF LECTURES AND RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE DOCTRINES OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND
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.
9 trustees on the board
- Gerrard O'Driscoll Chair
- Angela Heaviside since 2016
- Gemma Holmes since 2017
- Henry Bass since 2019
- Karen Tarpey since 2018
- Katie Beer since 2017
- Lucy Bettley since 2019
- Roy Mcpherson since 2019
- Vanessa Ellams since 2019
Trustees past 6 years
- Angela Heaviside since 2016
- Gemma Holmes since 2017
- Henry Bass since 2019
- Karen Tarpey since 2018
- Katie Beer since 2017
- Lucy Bettley since 2019
- Roy Mcpherson since 2019
- Vanessa Ellams since 2019
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (8)
- Angela Heaviside since 2016
- Gemma Holmes since 2017
- Henry Bass since 2019
- Karen Tarpey since 2018
- Katie Beer since 2017
- Lucy Bettley since 2019
- Roy Mcpherson since 2019
- Vanessa Ellams since 2019
Portfolio (1)
- Gerrard O'Driscoll Chair
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
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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Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 233731
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- SCHEME DATED 11/03/1993AS AMENDED BY SCHEME DATED 26/07/2007AS AMENDED ON 10/09/2014AS AMENDED ON 27/05/2015 as amended on 21 Nov 2018
- Contact on the register
- 07803908686 · clare.heyes@keyline.plus.com
- 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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