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The Great Roper's Charity

  • 5 trustees
  • Income £18k (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 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
Suffolk
Registered
1965

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£18k£14k
  • 2024£13k£11k
  • 2023£14k£4k
Earlier years
  • 2022£12k£6k
  • 2021£10k£115k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

FOR PROVIDING RESIDENCES AND MEANS FOR THE SUPPORT, MAINTENANCE AND CLOTHING OF FOUR AGED POOR MARRIED COUPLES (OR IF NO SUITABLE MARRIED COUPLE, A POOR PERSON) BEING INHABITANTS OF THE ABOVE PARISHES AND MEMBERS OF THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH OF ENGLAND. IF NO DULY QUALIFIED APPLICANT IS AVAILABLE, THE TRUSTEES MAY APPOINT POOR PERSONS RESIDENT IN THE PARISHES OF ASSINGTON, LITTLE CORNARD AND NAYLAND-WITH-WISSINGTON, ALL IN THE COUNTY OF SUFFOLK, AND THE PARISHES OF ALPHAMSTONE, LAMARSH, MOUNT BURES, PEBMARSH, WAKES COLNE, WHITE COLNE AND WORMINGFORD, ALL IN THE COUNTY OF ESSEX

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.

5 trustees on the board

6.2y median 5.5y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

12.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (2)

Portfolio (3)

2
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 5Religious Activities 2Disability 1Environment/conservation/heritage 1The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 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.

Property 2Professional services 1

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£18k 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
241725
Status
Registered
Governing document
DEED OF GIFT DATED 24TH DECEMBER 1866. U.V.281 P.407 AND SCHEMES DATED 3RD MAY 1946, 3RD OCTOBER 1969 AND 3RD MAY 1977.
Contact on the register
01787227715
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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