Registered charity · Cumbria
Joseph and Eleanor Gunson Almshouse Trust
- 7 trustees
- Income £55k (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
- Cumbria
- Registered
- 1964
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£55k£13k
- 2024£55k£70k
- 2023£49k£57k
Earlier years
- 2022£40k£136k
- 2021£40k£24k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable objects
ALMHOUSES FOR POOR PERSONS OF GOOD CHARACTER WHO (EXCEPT IN SPECIAL CASES TO BE APPROVED BY THE CHARITY COMMISSIONERS) WERE BORN IN THE PARISH OF ULPHA, OR HAVE RESIDED IN THE AREA OF THE BOOTLE UNION BOUNDARIES IN THE COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND. THE PARISHES OF BROUGHTON WEST,BOOTLE,DRIGG AND CARLETON, DUNNERDALE-WITH-SEATHWAITE,ESKDALE,IRTON WITH SANTON, MILLOM, MILLOM WITHOUT MUNCASTER, ULPHA, WABERTHWAITE AND WICHAM FOR NOT LESS THAN 5 YEARS PRIOR TO THE TIME OF APPOINTMENT. PREFERENCE SHALL BE GIVEN TO PERSONS QUALIFIED AS AFORESAID WHO HAVE BEEN ENGAGED IN FARMING OR FORESTRY.
Grants received
1 grant · £10,000 total360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.
Top funders
- The National Lottery Community Fund · £10,000
Most recent
- The National Lottery Community Fund
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.
7 trustees on the board
- Professor John Hutton Chair since 2015
- Andrew David Catling since 2016
- Colin Edmondson since 2022
- Ian Kershaw since 2022
- Nicholas Taylor since 2017
- Rev Victoria Anne Sekasi since 2024
- Shelley Hackett since 2017
Trustees past 6 years
- Professor John Hutton Chair since 2015
- Andrew David Catling since 2016
- Nicholas Taylor since 2017
- Shelley Hackett since 2017
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (3)
- Andrew David Catling since 2016
- Ian Kershaw since 2022
- Nicholas Taylor since 2017
Portfolio (4)
- Professor John Hutton Chair since 2015
- Colin Edmondson since 2022
- Rev Victoria Anne Sekasi since 2024
- Shelley Hackett since 2017
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
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
- 233957
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- SCHEME OF 30 JUNE 1978
- Contact on the register
- 01229716994 · gunsontreasurer@gmail.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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