Nautilus Welfare Fund – Wallasey, Merseyside

Accommodation:

Apartments, flats and bungalows

Criteria:

Applications for accommodation at Mariners’ Park will be considered from retired, ex seafarers and other (former) maritime professionals and their dependants/partners who are aged 55 and over with service in the maritime industry.

Contact Details:

www.nautiluswelfarefund.org

Jane Gibson Almshouses – North East England, Sunderland

Accommodation

Jane Gibson Almshouses has a vacant one-bedroom flat at the Mowbray Almshouses next to the Minster in the centre of Sunderland (SR1 3PU). It is generously-sized; on the first floor reached by stairs and part of a community of 8 flats.

Photographs available at https://tinyurl.com/AlmshousePhotos

Criteria

Available to those over the age of 60; associated with Bishopwearmouth parish or able to demonstrate a connection to Sunderland; living independently, in financial and housing need and able to provide character references.

Contact Details

email: jgcmowbrayalmshouses@gmail.com
Telephone: 07986 669249
Address: The Administrator, Jane Gibson Almshouses, 313 High Street West, Sunderland SR1 3ET

William Gurney Charity – Brandiston near Norwich, Norfolk

Accommodation:

Mid terrace two story cottage one of four units.

  • Recently refurbished Ground Floor Shower Room / WC
  • New kitchen with electric cooker and fridge
  • Sitting room
  • Downstairs rear lobby
  • 2 bedrooms – one leading into another
  • Recent new electric night storage heaters plus open coal fire in sitting room
  • Recently redecorated and carpeted
  • New water tank
  • Small garden back and front
  • Peaceful rural location
  • Immediately available

Criteria:

  • Cottage will suit one or two occupants
  • Being an Almshouse Charity applicants are assumed to be of a mature age and able to produce satisfactory references
  • Steep cottage staircase suits able bodied occupants only
  • Country location car essential
  • No pets
  • No smoking

Contact:

Apply in writing: William Gurney Charity

C/O MAG Group Building, Vulcan Road South, Norwich, Norfolk, NR6 6AF

Or by email to info@williamgurneytrust.co.uk

The Eden Cottages Trust, Exeter Road, Ivybridge

Accommodation

A spacious two-bedroomed Almshouse in a community of retired persons is now available at Eden Cottages in Exeter Road, Ivybridge.

The Almshouse is suitable for two persons and comprises a large sitting room, two double bedrooms, upstairs bathroom, downstairs toilet and kitchen.

Criteria

The Trustees invite applications from anyone in housing and financial need but under the terms of our governing document they must be members of the Church of England*.

Applications will not be considered from existing homeowners, nor from established tenants of social housing.

Contact details

Full details and an application form can be obtained from the Secretary to the Trustees

Tel: 07855 830631

email: edencottages.secretary@544gmail.com

*The Eden Cottages charitable scheme states that residents must be “poor persons who are members of the Church of England” and the charities exemption of the Equality Act 2010 therefore permits it to specify that applicants have to be members of the Church of England.

Ellen Barnes Charitable Trust, Oswestry, Shropshire

Accommodation

We have a one-bedroom property available. It is set within large, shared private grounds with parking, managed by Trustees.

Criteria

Applicants should demonstrate ‘financial or social need’ and live locally to Weston Rhyn

Contact details

Anyone interested should contact Rentals@rogerparry.net, 01743 343343

Wrott & Hill Charity – Sutton at Hone, Kent

Accommodation

One bed self-contained bungalow set within a small group of eight almshouses, built in the 1980s. The property offers comfortable accommodation in a quiet community setting. With separate lobby, lounge, kitchen, bathroom and large bedroom suited to a couple. Newly redecorated.

Criteria

Available for a person of limited means, either born in or currently resident in Swanley or Sutton at Hone, Kent. 

Applicants must be able to live independently.

Contact details

For further information and an application form, please contact: jeni@witlet.co.uk / 01376 502 500 

Dr Smarts Trust – Scarborough, North Yorkshire

Accommodation

We currently have a ground floor one bedroom apartment available and also a ground floor two bedroom apartment available.

Criteria

Applicants must be aged over 55 years of age, able to live independently and preferably living in Yorkshire. Sorry no pets.

Contact details

For further information, or to request an application form please contact the Trust Office on 01723 361949 or email drsmartshomes@outlook.com

The Hartley Trust – Donnington, Berkshire

Accommodation:

A one bedroom, self-contained, unfurnished two-storey property adjacent to other almshouse dwellings in a pleasant village setting. 

Criteria:

This accommodation is available to:

  • Male applicants aged 60 years or over
  • Individuals able to live independently
  • Applicants ideally living in Berkshire or Oxfordshire

Unfortunately, no pets are allowed

Contact:

Please visit our website www.hartleytrust.org for further information and an application form

or call 01635 551530