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The Somme Nursing Home

Registered

Charity no. 101793 Date registered. 21/02/2024

Public benefits

The Somme Nursing Home provides care and accommodation to those ex-servicemen and women and their spouses who are assessed by their GP/Health Trust as needing 24 hour professional nursing care. The Home cares for those requiring permanent, respite or end of life care. No person or organisation connected with your organisation receives private

benefit.

What your organisation does

The organisation operates a not for profit nursing home, supporting ex members of the armed forces who require nursing care.

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

  • Mental health
  • Older people
  • Physical disabilities

How the charity works

  • Accommodation/housing
  • Grant making
  • Medical/health/sickness

Charitable purposes

The Company is established to: (a) provide Nursing Home facilities to ex-servicement and ex-servicewomen and their spouses and to any other persons as so agreed by the Board of Directors; (b) provide medical, healthcare and rehabilitation services to ex-servicement and ex-servicewomen and their spouses and to any other persons as so agreed by the Board of Directors; (c) provide grant funding for the benefit of ex-servicement and ex-servicewomen and their spouses and to pay any other persons as so agreed by the Board of Directors; (d) to apply the property vested in it in the provision of accomodation 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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