HAMMERSMITH UNITED CHARITIES
- 6 GLENTHORNE MEWS
W6 0LJ LONDON
Phone: 020 8741 4326
Fax: 020 8748 1310
E-mail: Send messagewww.hamunitedcharities.org.uk
Short profile:
H.U.C. provides unfurnished sheltered dwellings, known as Almshouses, specially designed with the needs of older people in mind. The aim is to provide convenient and comfortable accommodation in a setting that allows residents to come and go as they please.
Almshouses provide security and residents are encouraged to make friends and share a wider social life through use of the resident’s hall and the other available facilities. Our Almshouses have Scheme Managers who visit every resident every day and an emergency call system in each flat.
The call system is linked to the Scheme Manager when they are on site and, out of working hours, to the “Careline” response service. In an emergency, such as sudden illness or after a fall, any resident can get help quickly any time.
Detailed description:
Hammersmith United Charities (H.U.C.), a non-profit making charity, is run in accordance with its Governing Instrument, a Scheme from The Charity Commissioners dated 14th July 1992. Under the terms of the Governing Instrument, H.U.C. has two main charitable branches: Almshouse Branch – the provision of sheltered Almshouse accommodation for the elderly poor of the former Metropolitan Borough of Hammersmith (the “area of benefit“) Relief in Need Branch – to apply surplus income to relieving need, hardship or distress by making grants to those in need in the area of the area of benefit.
The Charity is administered by voluntary Trustees. The current Governing Instrument stipulates a total of 17 Trustees [one ex-officio - the Vicar of St.
Paul's, Hammersmith - eight nominated by the Local Authority, one nominated by the Latymer Foundation and seven co-opted from the local community]. Day-to-day management is delegated to, and carried out by, the Clerk to the Trustees, and the Scheme Managers.
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