Charities

The Skinners’ Company has been working to relieve poverty and disadvantage for many hundreds of years.

Today the Company continues to act as a force for good through the provision of social housing for older people and charitable grant-making for both old and young, enabling people in need to lead full and independent lives.

Grant-making charities

The Company’s grant-making charities provide assistance to organisations for specific projects. They also assist individuals, either for younger people in education and training, or to improve the quality of life for pensioners and disabled people.

Housing for older people – Skinners’ Almshouses

The Skinners' Almshouse Charity provides quality homes for older people.

Percy Bilton Court in Hounslow, West London, is a purpose-built sheltered housing scheme offering 38 self-contained one-bedroom flats.

Skinners Court in Palmers Green, North London, offers 48 ‘state-of-the-art’ one and two-bedroom flats for frailer older people within an approach known as ‘extra care’’. This encourages older people to be as independent as possible for as long as possible thanks to the 24 hour care on site.

Services for Charities

The Skinners’ Company is now pleased to be able to offer administration services to grant-making charities working in similar areas of need, for instance, grants to individuals and organizations in the field of social welfare, education and vocational training.

The service can be arranged to suit each individual charity’s needs and can include:

• Grant-making administration
• Clerical support in the form of setting agendas and taking minutes
• Provision of meeting facilities
• Implementation of trustees decisions and
• Financial and statutory reporting

We aim to offer this service in a way that improves a charity’s efficiency and reduces its administration costs.

If you are interested in finding out more about this service please contact Ms Sue Ellis by email at Sellis@skinners.org.uk or telephone on 020 7213 0564.

 

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