On 6th May 2020 we would have been celebrating The Almshouse Association 2018 Patron’s Award winners at the award ceremony in London with our Royal Vice Patron, HRH The Duke of Gloucester.
Letter from HRH The Duke of GloucesterHRH contacted our CEO Nick Phillips yesterday to express how much he was looking forward to being able to attend the re-scheduled awards when the time was right and to wish all our members and almshouse residents well as we all navigate through these unprecedented times. He also sent a letter to us which can be read in full here
There were three winners selected by our Royal Patron for
2018 – Chandos and Dent’s Almshouses in Winchcombe, the Mills Charity in
Framlingham, and the Charity of James Goodman in Cranfield.
Chandos and Dent’s undertook a major renovation project to replace their 1960s almshouses with 11 new, spacious almshouses to provide low maintenance accommodation for local people in need.
The trustees of the Mills Charity wanted to develop a new scheme which would have a social impact on the village and decided to provide ten new family homes and four one bedroom flats.
The Charity of James Goodman built 12 new properties, all with disabled access, as well as a communal room with kitchen to foster sense of community. The new almshouses were built in traditional almshouse quadrangle.
To read more about the Almshouse Association awards, please click on the link below
https://www.almshouses.org/almshouse-association-awards/award-one/
Posted 7 May 2020