It's Trustees Week! | The Almshouse Association

During Trustees’ Week, we want to celebrate the dedication and inspiration of all our member trustees who run the 1600+ almshouse charities across the UK.

Almshouses are special. They offer a safe, secure, affordable home for local people in housing need. They give the most vulnerable in our communities a place to call home, opening doors to better lives. Almshouses create micro-communities where people can live independently yet be supported by neighbours.

Trustees are the silent heroes who offer their time, care and attention, voluntarily, to run and manage their almshouses to support the continued provision of safe and secure self-sufficient low cost community housing, for people in housing need.

Dating back to the 10th Century, almshouses are the oldest form of social housing; they are held in trust by local people for local people in perpetuity, generation after generation. It is from these solid foundations that we can all champion the movement and ensure the continuance of their legacies for many generations to come.

Trustees are vital to the almshouse movement. They are essential to the longevity of almshouses, ensuring the legacies left in their care can continue and thrive into the future.

We thank all the trustees who work tirelessly to provide their residents with safe, warm secure homes that endures the test of time.