The Almshouse Association
Our national membership body. Provides governance training, weekly-contribution benchmarks, and the occasional small grant for capital repairs.
Partnerships
A small almshouse charity does not work alone.
The named organisations below are the people we lean on. Most of them have been doing what they do longer than we have. We are listed here as a small thank-you, and as a public statement of where the work of the cottages is held together.
Homes England
Co-regulator of the cottages as a registered provider of social housing. Our point of contact for the small-provider standard.
Dacorum Borough Council
Housing benefit assessments, the local adult social care liaison for residents who need it, and the keeper of the parish boundary maps.
Tring Town Council
A standing invitation to our trustees’ autumn meeting. The annual community-grant programme we very occasionally apply to.
St Peter & St Paul, Tring
Sunday Doors befriending partnership since 1997; an annual carol service in the cottage courtyard; the parish hall for our AGM.
Tring & District Local History Society
Help with the small cottage archive, and an open lecture at our sixtieth-anniversary tea in 2023.
Holden & Sons, Aldbury
Our roofers since 1974. Three generations of the family have worked on these slates. They are coming back for the south range in 2026.
Vale Sash & Frame, Wendover
Sash-window restoration and the slow business of re-cording windows that are over a hundred years old.
Tring & Wendover Open Gardens
Our annual midsummer open garden is part of their weekend. Their volunteers make our scones; ours pour their tea.
Working with us
If your organisation works in this corner of Hertfordshire, we would be glad to hear from you.
We are a small charity and we partner slowly. We are not the right partner for organisations looking for a campaign body, or for those whose work is not within an hour’s drive of Tring. We are a good partner for parish bodies, small trades, local authorities, and other almshouse trusts who would like to share notes.