Walthamstow & Chingford Almshouse Charity

Walthamstow & Chingford Almshouse Charity is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (charity number 1116355).

The Walthamstow & Chingford Almshouse Charity works for people living in Walthamstow and Chingford in the London Borough of Waltham Forest. It is an amalgamation of many smaller charities that local benefactors and philanthropists set up. It provides housing for older people, with 62 apartments offering high quality, affordable housing to local people. It also makes grants for the relief of need, to individuals and families in crisis and to other charities and organisations working for people in financial need in those areas, and its grants to individuals and organisations have totalled £131,215.

Priority Areas

The charity makes grants to individuals and families in crisis to relieve hardship, and to other charities and organisations working to assist people in financial need. Its organisational grant-making focuses on direct relief of financial need, including household goods for low-income individuals and families. It also considers organisations helping people into work, providing debt advice and assistance, or delivering other services with a direct, positive impact on beneficiaries’ financial need. Grant recipients must reside or operate within Walthamstow or Chingford, and organisations receiving grants report on their use and impact after 12 months.

Themes

• Financial hardship
• Employment support
• Debt advice

Geographic Focus

Walthamstow; Chingford.

Organisations send an outline proposal first. The directors consider it and tell the organisation whether it may submit a full application on the charity’s form.

Who can apply:

• Grants to individuals or families in crisis
  • We can only assist those who are living in Walthamstow or Chingford at the time of their application.
  • Applicants are required to first apply to the Waltham Forest Local Welfare Assistance (LWA) scheme for the household items that LWA may be able to help with.
• Grants to organisations
  • Recipients of grants must reside or operate within Walthamstow or Chingford.
  • Charities and organisations that assist people in direct financial need, including those that help people into work, provide debt advice and assistance, or provide other services that have a direct and positive impact on their beneficiaries' financial need.

What to send:

• Grants to organisations
  • An outline proposal setting out what the project is.
  • An outline proposal explaining how the project will fulfil the Charity's objective of the Relief of Financial Need.
  • A breakdown of the cost of the project.
  • Details of any other funding applied for.

What the charity says:

• Organisational grant-making focuses on the direct relief of financial need.
• Directors may visit an applicant organisation before making a recommendation.
• Organisations receiving grants must report on the use and impact after 12 months.