Sixty-two unbroken years of returns to the Commission.
Each year, within nine months of our year-end on 31 December, we file a trustees’ report and a set of accounts with the Charity Commission. The seven most recent are listed below, along with our independent examiner’s short statement.
The Commission’s public record for charity 220078 shows our reporting status as up to date.
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2024
Income £60,654, expenditure £42,978. The year of the south-range survey, ahead of the 2026 Roof Fund appeal. A quiet year for resident turnover — the same eight neighbours throughout.
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2023
Income £58,200, expenditure £45,300. The bathrooms of cottages two and three were refitted with level-access showers. We held our sixtieth-anniversary tea in the parish hall.
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2022
Income £52,700, expenditure £36,700. A steady year. The Winter Hearth grant was uplifted from £150 to £180 per cottage in response to the heating-oil price.
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2021
Income £56,100, expenditure £49,200. The north range was re-slated in Welsh slate by Holden & Sons. The largest single capital spend in fifteen years.
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2020
Income £49,800, expenditure £28,900. The year of the pandemic. No open garden; no AGM in person. The Sunday Doors rota carried on by doorstep visit and telephone.
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2019
Income £51,400, expenditure £31,400. Two cottages had their boilers replaced. The garden bench was rebuilt by the now-retired Aldbury joiner.
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2018
Income £49,300, expenditure £30,200. A quiet year. The lunch-club experiment was first discussed by the trustees, ahead of its 2023 attempt and gentle wind-down.
A short note from our examiner.
Our accounts are independently examined each year by a qualified examiner in Berkhamsted, working under the terms of the Charities Act and the Almshouse Association’s suggested model.
If you would like to write to the examiner about any matter in our accounts, please address your letter via the clerk at the cottages and we will pass it on.