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 Company, through the Hunt and 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.

Skinners Court award winning housing

Both sites are managed by Hanover Housing Association.

 

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