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Registered charity · Shropshire

Samuel Higginson Almshouses Charity

  • 5 trustees
  • Income £22k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 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
Shropshire
Registered
1965

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£22k£38k
  • 2024£18k£81k
  • 2023£19k£23k
Earlier years
  • 2022£16k£7k
  • 2021£19k£11k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

INCOME TO BE APPLIED FOR THE PROVISION AND MAINTENANCE OF ALMSHOUSES AND FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE RESIDENTS IN THE ALMSHOUSES WHO SHALL BE PERSONS IN NEED WHO ARE INHABITANTS OF THE AREA COMPRISING THE PARISHES OF WHITCHURCH URBAN AND WHITCHURCH RURAL.

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

4.6y median 4y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.5y
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 3Recreation 2Amateur Sport 1Education/training 1Environment/conservation/heritage 1Religious Activities 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.

Other services 2Arts and leisure 1Education 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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£18k latest income · spending exceeded income in 2023 and 2024

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
242738
Status
Registered
Governing document
SCHEME OF 2 DECEMBER 1982
Contact on the register
07985212529 · jane@rylands.me.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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