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Somme Nursing Home Holdings

Registered

Charity no. 100692 Date registered. 21/02/2024

Public benefits

Assessed by the medical profession as requiring constant medical/nursing care, beneficiaries are provided with the direct benefit of long term or respite care. Somme Nursing Home Holdings provides funding to assist this purpose. Beneficiaries from the organisation are sick, wounded and disabled members or ex-members of the armed forces, police

and fire services and their spouses They are predominantly, but not exclusively, drawn from the population of Northern Ireland. No person or organisation connected with your organisation receives private benefit.

What your organisation does

Somme Nursing Home Holdings holds land and property, as well as investments, solely to support the provision of care by its sister organisation Somme Nursing Home. Somme Nursing Home Holdings not only operates as the financial reserves for the nursing home, but provides grants from its income to support the annual running of the nursing home as

well as funding in whole or in part, capital development of the home.

The charity’s classifications

  • The relief of those in need by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage

Who the charity helps

  • Older people
  • Physical disabilities
  • Sensory disabilities

How the charity works

  • Grant making
  • Medical/health/sickness

Charitable purposes

The Company is established to: (a) provide grants and other funding to the Somme Nursing Home and to any other individuals, organizations and Companies as so agreed by the Board of Directors the objects of which are charitable and similar in nature to those set out in paragraph 3(b); (b) to apply the property vested in it in the provision of accommodation equipment and facilities for the medical, hospital and convalescent care and treatment of persons in need thereof because of sickness, injury and disablement ("the relevant facilities") for the following categories of persons such categories being listed in order of priority:. (i). Ex-service persons in the United Kingdom armed forces and their spouses; (ii). Serving members of the United Kingdom armed forces and their spouses; (iii) Present and past members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary or equivalent Northern Ireland Police Service and their spouses; (IV) Present and past members of the Merchant Navy, Prison Service, Fire Service and their spouses; and in providing the relevant facilities for the persons listed in the four categories in paragraph above, the Trustees shall not provide for members of the category with a lower priority unless the Trustees or an authorised committee thereof is satisfied that there is no demand for such facilities for members of the category with higher priority.

Governing document

Memorandum and Articles

Other name

List of regions

  • In Northern Ireland
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