01 Identity
Registration and reporting
- Registration status
- Registered
- Reporting status
- New
- Charity type
- CIO
- Registered
- 8 April 2025
- Removed
- Not supplied
- Financial period
- Not supplied – Not supplied
- Latest income
- Not supplied
- Latest expenditure
- Not supplied
- Owns or uses land
- No
- In administration
- No
- Insolvent
- No
- CIO
- Yes
Public contact address: Amersham United Charities CIO, St. Mary's Church Parish Office, 10 Church Street, AMERSHAM, Buckinghamshire, HP7 0DB
Website recorded by the regulator: https://www.amershamalmshouses.org.uk/ (displayed as text)
02 Activities
What the charity does
The objects of the charity are: the relief of financial hardship by providing almshouse accommodation to persons living in the Amersham and Coleshill area of Buckinghamshire; the advance of education of persons under the age of 21 living in the same area by the making of small grants; and the relief of financial hardship to persons living in the same area by the making of small grants.
03 Official extract
Charity Area Of Operation
- Geographic Area Type
- Local Authority
- Geographic Area Description
- Buckinghamshire
- Welsh Ind
- No
04 Official extract
Charity Classification
- Classification Code
- 207
- Classification Type
- Who
- Classification Description
- The General Public/mankind
- Classification Code
- 107
- Classification Type
- What
- Classification Description
- Accommodation/housing
- Classification Code
- 305
- Classification Type
- How
- Classification Description
- Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space
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Charity Event History
- Charity Name
- AMERSHAM UNITED CHARITIES CIO
- Charity Event Order
- 1
- Event Type
- CIO registration
- Date Of Event
- 2025-04-08T00:00:00
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Charity Governing Document
- Governing Document Description
- CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 08 Apr 2025 as amended on 15 Sept 2025
- Charitable Objects
- THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE: 1 THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, IN PARTICULAR BY PROVIDING ALMSHOUSE HOUSING ACCOMMODATION WHICH THEY WOULD NOT OTHERWISE AFFORD THROUGH LACK OF MEANS TO SINGLE PEOPLE RESIDENT IN THE FOLLOWING AREAS (PROVIDED IN EXCEPTIONAL CIRCUMSTANCES THAT THE TRUSTEES MAY OFFER ACCOMMODATION TO PERSONS OUTSIDE OF SUCH AREAS) AND CONSIDERING APPLICATIONS IN THE FOLLOWING ORDER OF PRIORITY:- THE PARISH OF AMERSHAM WITH COLESHILL IN THE COUNTY OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE;- THE ANCIENT PARISH OF LEE;- THE SURROUNDING AREA; AND- IN RESPECT OF POTENTIAL RESIDENTS OF THE DAY?S ALMSHOUSES, IN ADDITION TO THE ABOVE CRITERIA, GIVING PRIORITY TO MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND; 2 TO ADVANCE EDUCATION OF PERSONS UNDER THE AGE OF 21 WHO ARE IN NEED OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE AND ARE RESIDENT IN THE PARISH OF AMERSHAM WITH COLESHILL (OR IN EXCEPTIONAL CIRCUMSTANCES AT THE DISCRETION OF THE TRUSTEES, YOUNG PERSONS WHO ARE TEMPORARY RESIDENTS IN SUCH AREA OR RESIDENT OUTSIDE SUCH AREA), IN PARTICULAR BY PROVIDING SUCH PERSONS WITH GRANTS, PROVIDING OR PAYING FOR SERVICES OR FACILITIES FOR THEM OR MAKING GRANTS TO OTHER PERSONS OR BODIES WHO PROVIDE GOODS, SERVICES OR FACILITIES TO THEM; AND3 THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AMONG POOR PERSONS WHO ARE IN NEED OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE AND ARE RESIDENT IN THE PARISH OF AMERSHAM WITH COLESHILL (OR IN EXCEPTIONAL CIRCUMSTANCES AT THE DISCRETION OF THE TRUSTEES, WHO ARE TEMPORARY RESIDENTS IN SUCH AREA OR RESIDENT OUTSIDE SUCH AREA) WHO, IN THE OPINION OF THE TRUSTEES, ARE IN NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS, IN PARTICULAR BY PROVIDING SUCH PERSONS WITH GRANTS, PROVIDING OR PAYING FOR SERVICES OR FACILITIES FOR THEM OR MAKING GRANTS TO OTHER PERSONS OR BODIES WHO PROVIDE GOODS, SERVICES OR FACILITIES TO THEM.