Charity Commission Registration No. 209446
National Association of Almshouses Membership No. M928
Housing Ombudsman Service Ltd. Reg. No. A3951
The Trustees of the Charity are the Rector and current Churchwardens of St. Katharine's Church, Knockholt. The Churchwardens serve for three years - if they elect to stand for a further term they may be re-appointed by the Parochial Church Council.
There are three additional Trustees selected & appointed by Knockholt Parish Council. These Trustees serve for a period of three years - if they elect to stand for a further term they may be re-appointed by the Parish Council.
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National Association of Almshouses Membership No. M928
Housing Ombudsman Service Ltd. Reg. No. A3951
The Trustees of the Charity are the Rector and current Churchwardens of St. Katharine's Church, Knockholt. The Churchwardens serve for three years - if they elect to stand for a further term they may be re-appointed by the Parochial Church Council.
There are three additional Trustees selected & appointed by Knockholt Parish Council. These Trustees serve for a period of three years - if they elect to stand for a further term they may be re-appointed by the Parish Council.
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Board of Trustees
Rev. John Benson has been Chairman of the Board of Trustees since his appointment as Rector of St. Katharine's Church, Knockholt in 2007.
Mrs. Miller & Mr. Green act as Trustees by virtue of their positions in office as Churchwardens of St. Katharine's Church. Mrs. Whitelegg has been a Trustee since April 1997 and has primary responsibility for the pastoral care of our residents. Mr. Small joined as Property Manager and Trustee in early 2011, his main responsibilities are for the day to day management of the cottages and land. Mrs. Sabrina Little joined the charity as its new Treasurer on 1st April, 2014.
All our Trustees are volunteers, they receive no remuneration for their services.
The Independent Examiner to the Charity is Mr. Michael J.A. Stevens of Pound Lane, Knockholt to whom we are extremely grateful for the time he freely gives to perform this important annual function.
The following link takes you to the website of the combined benefice of St. Katharine's Church, Knockholt and St. Margaret's Church, Halstead:
http://www.knockholt-church.org/
The following link takes you to the website of Knockholt Parish Council:
http://www.knockholtparish.org.uk/
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Governance Document
Hampton Cottages Charity
Registered Charity No. 209446
Original scheme including appointment of Trustees dated 17th January, 1956.
(As revised 24th May, 2011 – see Note 1.).
CHARITY COMMISSION
In the matter of the Charity known as HAMPTON COTTAGES, in the former Parish of KNOCKHOLT (as constituted on the 1st November 1912), in the County of KENT, founded by the will of William Brittain Jones proved in the Principal Registry on the 9th January 1913; and In the matter of the Charitable Trusts Acts, 1853 to 1939.
SCHEME.
1. Administration of Charity. The above-mentioned Charity and the endowments thereof specified in the schedule hereto and all other the endowments (if any) of the Charity shall be administered and managed subject to and in conformity with the provision of this Scheme by the body of Trustees hereinafter constituted.
2. Investment of Cash. All sums of cash now or at any time belonging to the Charity and not needed for immediate working purposes shall be invested (unless otherwise ordered) as soon as possible under the authority of a further Order of the Charity Commissioners in the name of The Official Trustees of Charitable Funds.
TRUSTEES.
3. Trustees. The body of Trustees shall consist when complete of six competent persons being
Three Ex-officio Trustees and
Three Representative Trustees.
4. Ex-Officio Trustees. The Ex-Officio Trustees shall be the VICAR and CHURCHWARDENS of the Ecclesiastical Parish of Knockholt, all for the time being.
5. Representative Trustees. The Representative Trustees shall be appointed by the Urban District Council of Orpington and shall be nominated by the Councillors of the Knockholt Ward. Each appointment shall be made for a term of four years at a meeting convened and held according to the ordinary practice of the council. The Chairman of the meeting shall cause the name of each person appointed to be notified forthwith to the Trustees or their Clerk. The person appointed may be but need not be a member of the council.
6. First Representative Trustees. The first Representative Trustees shall be appointed as soon as possible after the date hereof and their names shall be notified to the said vicar on behalf of the Trustees. At the end of two years from the date of the appointment of the first Representative Trustees if both of them remain Trustees one of them to be determined by lot if necessary shall go out of office but shall be eligible for re-appointment.
7. Declaration by Trustees. No person shall be entitled to act as a Trustee whether on a first or on any subsequent entry into office until after signing in the minute book of the Trustees a declaration of acceptance and of willingness to act in the trusts of this Scheme.
8. Determination of Trusteeship. Any Representative Trustee who is absent from all meetings of the Trustees during a period of one year and any Trustee who is adjudged bankrupt or makes a composition or arrangement with his creditors or who is incapacitated from acting or who communicates in writing to the Trustees a wish to resign shall cease thereupon to be a Trustee.
9. Vacancies. Upon the occurrence of a vacancy the Trustees shall cause a note thereof to be entered in their minute book at their next meeting and in the case of a vacancy in the office of Representative Trustee shall cause notice thereof to be given as soon as possible to the council. Any competent Trustee may be re-appointed.
10. Ordinary Meetings. The Trustees shall hold at least two ordinary meetings in each year.
11. First Meeting. The first meeting of the Trustees shall be summoned by the Vicar or if he fails for two calendar months after the date of this Scheme to summon a meeting by any two of the Trustees.
12. Chairman. The Trustees at their first ordinary meeting in each year shall elect one of their number to be chairman of their meetings until the commencement of the first ordinary meeting in the following year. The chairman shall always be eligible for re-election. If at any meeting the chairman is not present within ten minutes after the time appointed for holding the same or there is no chairman the Trustees present shall choose one of their number to be chairman of the meeting.
13. Special Meetings. A special meeting may be summoned at any time by the chairman or any two Trustees upon four days’ notice being given to all the other Trustees of the matters to be discussed.
14. Quorum. There shall be a quorum when three Trustees are present at a meeting.
15. Voting. Every matter shall be determined by the majority of votes of the Trustees present and voting on the question. In the case of equality of votes the chairman of the meeting shall have a casting vote whether he has or has not voted previously on the same question but no Trustee in any other circumstances shall give more than one vote.
16. Minutes and Accounts. A minute book and books of account shall be provided and kept by the Trustees. All proper accounts in relation to the Charity shall be made out in each year and certified in such manner as the Charity Commissioners require and copies thereof shall be transmitted certified in such manner to the said Commissioners in compliance with the provisions of the Charitable Trusts Acts.
17. General Power to make Regulations. Within the limits prescribed by this Scheme the Trustees shall have full power from time to time to make regulations for the management of the Charity and for the conduct of their business including the summoning of meetings, the deposit of money at a proper bank and the custody of documents.
18. Clerk. The Trustees may appoint some fit person to be their Clerk and to hold the office during their pleasure and may pay to him (not being a Trustee) such reasonable salary as they think fit.
SALE.
19. Sale. As and when the Trustees obtain vacant possession of all or any of the cottages specified in part 1 of the said schedule then subject to the authority of a further Order or Orders of the Charity Commissioners they may sell all or any of such cottages and may do and execute all proper acts and assurances for carrying such sales into effect. The clear proceeds of any such sales shall be invested in the name of The Official Trustees of Charitable Funds in one or more of the stocks, funds and securities (other than real securities) authorised by law for the investment of trust funds and the income from such investment shall be applied in defraying the cost of repairing the property specified in part II of the said Schedule.
APPLICATION OF INCOME.
20. Expenses of Management. The Trustees shall first defray out of the income of the Charity the cost of repairs and insurance and all other charges and outgoings payable in respect of the property of the Charity and all the proper costs, charges and expenses of an incidental to the administration and management of the Charity.
21. Extraordinary Repair Fund.
(1) Subject to any further Order or Orders of the Charity Commissioners a fund for the extraordinary repair, improvement or rebuilding of the almshouses belonging to the Charity shall be provided and maintained as follows.
(2) The Trustees shall pay to the Official Trustees of Charitable Funds a yearly sum of not less than £10 out of the income of the Charity and the said Official Trustees shall invest the yearly sum so paid at compound interest in the purchase in their name to the credit of an account to be entitled Extraordinary Repair fund of one or more of the stocks, funds and securities (other than real securities) authorised by law for the investment of trust funds.
22. Benefit of Residents. Subject to the payments aforesaid the Trustees shall apply the income of the Charity in giving effect to the provisions hereinafter contained for the benefit of the Residents of the cottages belonging to the Charity and otherwise for the benefit of the said residents or any of them in such manner as the Trustees think fit from time to time.
COTTAGES AND RESIDENTS.
23. Cottages. As and when vacant possession of the cottages specified in part II of the said schedule and belonging to the Charity is obtained such cottages shall be appropriated and used for the accommodation of Residents in conformity with the provisions of this Scheme.
24. Saving for Existing Occupants. Appointments of residents under this Scheme shall be made without prejudice to the interests of the existing occupants of the cottages.
25. Qualifications of Residents. The Residents shall be poor persons of good character who (except in special cases to be approved by the Charity Commissioners) have resided in the area of the former parish of Knockholt (as constituted on the 1st November, 1912) for not less than two years next preceding the time of the appointment.
26. Contributions. The Trustees may make it a condition of appointing or permitting any person to be or remain a Resident that he or she shall contribute towards the cost of maintaining the cottages a weekly sum of not more than 5s. or such sum as the Charity Commissioners approve from time to time.
27. Notice of Vacancy. No appointment of a Resident shall be made by the Trustees until a sufficient notice of an existing vacancy specifying the qualifications required from candidates has been published in Knockholt by advertisement or otherwise so as to give due publicity to the intended appointment but it shall not be necessary to publish a notice if a vacancy occurs within twelve calendar months after the last notice of a vacancy has been published. Notices may be according to the Form annexed hereto.
28. Applications for Appointment. All applications for appointment shall be made in writing in such manner as the Trustees direct to the Trustees or their clerk. Before appointing any application to be a Resident the Trustees shall require him or her to attend in person unless he or she is physically disabled or the Trustees are of opinion that special circumstances render this unnecessary. Every applicant must be prepared with sufficient testimonials and other evidence of his or her qualification for appointment.
29. Selection of Residents. Residents shall be selected only after full investigation of the character and circumstances of the applicants. Where claims are equal preference shall be given to those applicants who have resided longest in the said former parish constituted as aforesaid. For the purposes of this clause the Trustees may avail themselves of the services of any charity organisation society or other like agency.
30. Appointments of Residents. Every appointment of a Resident shall be made by the Trustees at a special meeting.
31. Records. The Trustees shall provide and keep a book in which shall be entered the name, age and description of every person appointed to be a Resident, the date of every appointment and the date and occasion of every vacancy. They shall also keep a register of all applications for appointment.
32. Absence from Cottages. No Resident shall be absent from the cottages for a period exceeding 72-hours without the consent in writing of the Trustees or their clerk.
33. Rooms not to be Let. No Resident shall be permitted to let or part with the possession of the room or rooms allotted to him or her except with the special permission of the Trustees to suffer any person to share the occupation of the same or of any part thereof.
34. Removal of Residents. (1) The following persons may be removed from being Residents :-
(a) Any Resident who is in the opinion of the Trustees is guilty of insobriety, insubordination, breach of regulations or immoral or improper conduct.
(b) Any Resident who in the opinion of the Trustees no longer has the required qualifications:
(c) Any Resident who has been appointed without having the required qualifications:
(d) Any Resident who is suffering from mental or other disease or infirmity rendering him or her as unfit to remain a Resident.
34. Removal of Residents – Contd:
(2) Upon the removal of any Resident the Trustees shall take possession of the room or rooms occupied by him or her.
(3) Any Resident removed under section (I) of this clause on account of mental or other disease or infirmity may be re-appointed on recovery without previous notice being given of the vacancy and need not have the qualification as to residence.
35. Regulations. The Trustees may prescribe from time to time such reasonable regulations as they consider expedient for the government of the Residents but so that the same shall not be at variance or inconsistent with any of the provisions of this Scheme and by such regulations may provide that the Residents shall render assistance to each other as is within their power.
GENERAL PROVISIONS.
36. Appropriation of Benefits. The appropriation of the benefits of the Charity shall be made by the Trustees from time to time at meetings of their body and not separately by any individual Trustee, or Trustees.
37. Trustees Not to be Personally Interested. No Trustee shall take or hold any interest in property belonging to the Charity otherwise than as a Trustee for the purposes thereof and no Trustee shall receive any remuneration, or be interested in the supply of work or goods, at the cost of the Charity.
38. Charity Not to Relieve Public Funds. The funds or income of the Charity shall not in any case be applied in relief of rates, taxes or other public funds.
39. Questions under Scheme. Any question as to the construction of this Scheme or as to the regularity or the validity of any acts done or about to be done under this Scheme shall be determined conclusively by the Charity Commissioners upon such application made to them for the purpose as they think sufficient.
FORM OF NOTICE.
In the matter of the Charity known as HAMPTON COTTAGES, in the former Parish of KNOCKHOLT as constituted on the 1st November 1955), in the county of KENT.
Notice is given that a vacancy exists for a Resident of a cottage belonging to this Charity.
Poor persons of good character who have resided in the Knockholt Ward of the Urban District of Orpington for not less than two years next preceding the time of appointment are eligible for appointment. Preference will be given to the applicant who has resided longest in the Knockholt Ward.
Application for appointment must be made in writing to
at on or before the 19 . Every applicant must state his or her name, address, age and occupation and must be prepared to produce sufficient testimonials and other evidence of his or her qualification for appointment and unless physically disabled to attend in person.
Notes. (1) In special cases to be approved by the Charity Commissioners persons who do not _________possess the prescribed qualification as to residence may be appointed if otherwise _________qualified.
(2) Residence may be required to contribute a small weekly sum towards the cost of _________maintaining the cottages of the Charity.
Signed
Clerk to the Trustees.
S C H E D U L E
PART I.
Land situate at Knockholt in the County of Kent with the four cottages thereon known as 1, 2, 3 and 4 Hampton Cottages with the cesspool near to the south west corner of the said cottages and with the right to use (in common with others) the overflow pipe and the deep soakaway pit connected with the said cesspool and situate in the north west corner of the adjoining property known as Ash Tree Cottages.
A strip of land being the roadway from the main road to the gardens of the above-mentioned cottages.
PART II.
Land situate at Knockholt with the six cottages thereon known as 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 Hampton Cottages.
Note. The above-mentioned lands and hereditaments were vested in the Official Trustee of Charity Lands by and Order of the Charity Commissioners of the 4th April 1933.
SEALED by Order of the Board this 17th day of January 1956.
NOTE 1:
At an extraordinary meeting of the Trustees on 24th May, 2011 a special resolution was passed whereby Para. 3 of this Governing Document was amended to allow the addition of one further Trustee:-
ORIGINAL:
“3. Trustees. The body of Trustees shall consist when complete of five competent persons being
Three Ex-Officio Trustees and
Two Representative Trustees”
REVISED:
“3. Trustees. The body of Trustees shall consist when complete of six competent persons
being
Three Ex-Officio Trustees and
Three Representative Trustees”
(As revised 24th May, 2011 – see Note 1.).
CHARITY COMMISSION
In the matter of the Charity known as HAMPTON COTTAGES, in the former Parish of KNOCKHOLT (as constituted on the 1st November 1912), in the County of KENT, founded by the will of William Brittain Jones proved in the Principal Registry on the 9th January 1913; and In the matter of the Charitable Trusts Acts, 1853 to 1939.
SCHEME.
1. Administration of Charity. The above-mentioned Charity and the endowments thereof specified in the schedule hereto and all other the endowments (if any) of the Charity shall be administered and managed subject to and in conformity with the provision of this Scheme by the body of Trustees hereinafter constituted.
2. Investment of Cash. All sums of cash now or at any time belonging to the Charity and not needed for immediate working purposes shall be invested (unless otherwise ordered) as soon as possible under the authority of a further Order of the Charity Commissioners in the name of The Official Trustees of Charitable Funds.
TRUSTEES.
3. Trustees. The body of Trustees shall consist when complete of six competent persons being
Three Ex-officio Trustees and
Three Representative Trustees.
4. Ex-Officio Trustees. The Ex-Officio Trustees shall be the VICAR and CHURCHWARDENS of the Ecclesiastical Parish of Knockholt, all for the time being.
5. Representative Trustees. The Representative Trustees shall be appointed by the Urban District Council of Orpington and shall be nominated by the Councillors of the Knockholt Ward. Each appointment shall be made for a term of four years at a meeting convened and held according to the ordinary practice of the council. The Chairman of the meeting shall cause the name of each person appointed to be notified forthwith to the Trustees or their Clerk. The person appointed may be but need not be a member of the council.
6. First Representative Trustees. The first Representative Trustees shall be appointed as soon as possible after the date hereof and their names shall be notified to the said vicar on behalf of the Trustees. At the end of two years from the date of the appointment of the first Representative Trustees if both of them remain Trustees one of them to be determined by lot if necessary shall go out of office but shall be eligible for re-appointment.
7. Declaration by Trustees. No person shall be entitled to act as a Trustee whether on a first or on any subsequent entry into office until after signing in the minute book of the Trustees a declaration of acceptance and of willingness to act in the trusts of this Scheme.
8. Determination of Trusteeship. Any Representative Trustee who is absent from all meetings of the Trustees during a period of one year and any Trustee who is adjudged bankrupt or makes a composition or arrangement with his creditors or who is incapacitated from acting or who communicates in writing to the Trustees a wish to resign shall cease thereupon to be a Trustee.
9. Vacancies. Upon the occurrence of a vacancy the Trustees shall cause a note thereof to be entered in their minute book at their next meeting and in the case of a vacancy in the office of Representative Trustee shall cause notice thereof to be given as soon as possible to the council. Any competent Trustee may be re-appointed.
10. Ordinary Meetings. The Trustees shall hold at least two ordinary meetings in each year.
11. First Meeting. The first meeting of the Trustees shall be summoned by the Vicar or if he fails for two calendar months after the date of this Scheme to summon a meeting by any two of the Trustees.
12. Chairman. The Trustees at their first ordinary meeting in each year shall elect one of their number to be chairman of their meetings until the commencement of the first ordinary meeting in the following year. The chairman shall always be eligible for re-election. If at any meeting the chairman is not present within ten minutes after the time appointed for holding the same or there is no chairman the Trustees present shall choose one of their number to be chairman of the meeting.
13. Special Meetings. A special meeting may be summoned at any time by the chairman or any two Trustees upon four days’ notice being given to all the other Trustees of the matters to be discussed.
14. Quorum. There shall be a quorum when three Trustees are present at a meeting.
15. Voting. Every matter shall be determined by the majority of votes of the Trustees present and voting on the question. In the case of equality of votes the chairman of the meeting shall have a casting vote whether he has or has not voted previously on the same question but no Trustee in any other circumstances shall give more than one vote.
16. Minutes and Accounts. A minute book and books of account shall be provided and kept by the Trustees. All proper accounts in relation to the Charity shall be made out in each year and certified in such manner as the Charity Commissioners require and copies thereof shall be transmitted certified in such manner to the said Commissioners in compliance with the provisions of the Charitable Trusts Acts.
17. General Power to make Regulations. Within the limits prescribed by this Scheme the Trustees shall have full power from time to time to make regulations for the management of the Charity and for the conduct of their business including the summoning of meetings, the deposit of money at a proper bank and the custody of documents.
18. Clerk. The Trustees may appoint some fit person to be their Clerk and to hold the office during their pleasure and may pay to him (not being a Trustee) such reasonable salary as they think fit.
SALE.
19. Sale. As and when the Trustees obtain vacant possession of all or any of the cottages specified in part 1 of the said schedule then subject to the authority of a further Order or Orders of the Charity Commissioners they may sell all or any of such cottages and may do and execute all proper acts and assurances for carrying such sales into effect. The clear proceeds of any such sales shall be invested in the name of The Official Trustees of Charitable Funds in one or more of the stocks, funds and securities (other than real securities) authorised by law for the investment of trust funds and the income from such investment shall be applied in defraying the cost of repairing the property specified in part II of the said Schedule.
APPLICATION OF INCOME.
20. Expenses of Management. The Trustees shall first defray out of the income of the Charity the cost of repairs and insurance and all other charges and outgoings payable in respect of the property of the Charity and all the proper costs, charges and expenses of an incidental to the administration and management of the Charity.
21. Extraordinary Repair Fund.
(1) Subject to any further Order or Orders of the Charity Commissioners a fund for the extraordinary repair, improvement or rebuilding of the almshouses belonging to the Charity shall be provided and maintained as follows.
(2) The Trustees shall pay to the Official Trustees of Charitable Funds a yearly sum of not less than £10 out of the income of the Charity and the said Official Trustees shall invest the yearly sum so paid at compound interest in the purchase in their name to the credit of an account to be entitled Extraordinary Repair fund of one or more of the stocks, funds and securities (other than real securities) authorised by law for the investment of trust funds.
22. Benefit of Residents. Subject to the payments aforesaid the Trustees shall apply the income of the Charity in giving effect to the provisions hereinafter contained for the benefit of the Residents of the cottages belonging to the Charity and otherwise for the benefit of the said residents or any of them in such manner as the Trustees think fit from time to time.
COTTAGES AND RESIDENTS.
23. Cottages. As and when vacant possession of the cottages specified in part II of the said schedule and belonging to the Charity is obtained such cottages shall be appropriated and used for the accommodation of Residents in conformity with the provisions of this Scheme.
24. Saving for Existing Occupants. Appointments of residents under this Scheme shall be made without prejudice to the interests of the existing occupants of the cottages.
25. Qualifications of Residents. The Residents shall be poor persons of good character who (except in special cases to be approved by the Charity Commissioners) have resided in the area of the former parish of Knockholt (as constituted on the 1st November, 1912) for not less than two years next preceding the time of the appointment.
26. Contributions. The Trustees may make it a condition of appointing or permitting any person to be or remain a Resident that he or she shall contribute towards the cost of maintaining the cottages a weekly sum of not more than 5s. or such sum as the Charity Commissioners approve from time to time.
27. Notice of Vacancy. No appointment of a Resident shall be made by the Trustees until a sufficient notice of an existing vacancy specifying the qualifications required from candidates has been published in Knockholt by advertisement or otherwise so as to give due publicity to the intended appointment but it shall not be necessary to publish a notice if a vacancy occurs within twelve calendar months after the last notice of a vacancy has been published. Notices may be according to the Form annexed hereto.
28. Applications for Appointment. All applications for appointment shall be made in writing in such manner as the Trustees direct to the Trustees or their clerk. Before appointing any application to be a Resident the Trustees shall require him or her to attend in person unless he or she is physically disabled or the Trustees are of opinion that special circumstances render this unnecessary. Every applicant must be prepared with sufficient testimonials and other evidence of his or her qualification for appointment.
29. Selection of Residents. Residents shall be selected only after full investigation of the character and circumstances of the applicants. Where claims are equal preference shall be given to those applicants who have resided longest in the said former parish constituted as aforesaid. For the purposes of this clause the Trustees may avail themselves of the services of any charity organisation society or other like agency.
30. Appointments of Residents. Every appointment of a Resident shall be made by the Trustees at a special meeting.
31. Records. The Trustees shall provide and keep a book in which shall be entered the name, age and description of every person appointed to be a Resident, the date of every appointment and the date and occasion of every vacancy. They shall also keep a register of all applications for appointment.
32. Absence from Cottages. No Resident shall be absent from the cottages for a period exceeding 72-hours without the consent in writing of the Trustees or their clerk.
33. Rooms not to be Let. No Resident shall be permitted to let or part with the possession of the room or rooms allotted to him or her except with the special permission of the Trustees to suffer any person to share the occupation of the same or of any part thereof.
34. Removal of Residents. (1) The following persons may be removed from being Residents :-
(a) Any Resident who is in the opinion of the Trustees is guilty of insobriety, insubordination, breach of regulations or immoral or improper conduct.
(b) Any Resident who in the opinion of the Trustees no longer has the required qualifications:
(c) Any Resident who has been appointed without having the required qualifications:
(d) Any Resident who is suffering from mental or other disease or infirmity rendering him or her as unfit to remain a Resident.
34. Removal of Residents – Contd:
(2) Upon the removal of any Resident the Trustees shall take possession of the room or rooms occupied by him or her.
(3) Any Resident removed under section (I) of this clause on account of mental or other disease or infirmity may be re-appointed on recovery without previous notice being given of the vacancy and need not have the qualification as to residence.
35. Regulations. The Trustees may prescribe from time to time such reasonable regulations as they consider expedient for the government of the Residents but so that the same shall not be at variance or inconsistent with any of the provisions of this Scheme and by such regulations may provide that the Residents shall render assistance to each other as is within their power.
GENERAL PROVISIONS.
36. Appropriation of Benefits. The appropriation of the benefits of the Charity shall be made by the Trustees from time to time at meetings of their body and not separately by any individual Trustee, or Trustees.
37. Trustees Not to be Personally Interested. No Trustee shall take or hold any interest in property belonging to the Charity otherwise than as a Trustee for the purposes thereof and no Trustee shall receive any remuneration, or be interested in the supply of work or goods, at the cost of the Charity.
38. Charity Not to Relieve Public Funds. The funds or income of the Charity shall not in any case be applied in relief of rates, taxes or other public funds.
39. Questions under Scheme. Any question as to the construction of this Scheme or as to the regularity or the validity of any acts done or about to be done under this Scheme shall be determined conclusively by the Charity Commissioners upon such application made to them for the purpose as they think sufficient.
FORM OF NOTICE.
In the matter of the Charity known as HAMPTON COTTAGES, in the former Parish of KNOCKHOLT as constituted on the 1st November 1955), in the county of KENT.
Notice is given that a vacancy exists for a Resident of a cottage belonging to this Charity.
Poor persons of good character who have resided in the Knockholt Ward of the Urban District of Orpington for not less than two years next preceding the time of appointment are eligible for appointment. Preference will be given to the applicant who has resided longest in the Knockholt Ward.
Application for appointment must be made in writing to
at on or before the 19 . Every applicant must state his or her name, address, age and occupation and must be prepared to produce sufficient testimonials and other evidence of his or her qualification for appointment and unless physically disabled to attend in person.
Notes. (1) In special cases to be approved by the Charity Commissioners persons who do not _________possess the prescribed qualification as to residence may be appointed if otherwise _________qualified.
(2) Residence may be required to contribute a small weekly sum towards the cost of _________maintaining the cottages of the Charity.
Signed
Clerk to the Trustees.
S C H E D U L E
PART I.
Land situate at Knockholt in the County of Kent with the four cottages thereon known as 1, 2, 3 and 4 Hampton Cottages with the cesspool near to the south west corner of the said cottages and with the right to use (in common with others) the overflow pipe and the deep soakaway pit connected with the said cesspool and situate in the north west corner of the adjoining property known as Ash Tree Cottages.
A strip of land being the roadway from the main road to the gardens of the above-mentioned cottages.
PART II.
Land situate at Knockholt with the six cottages thereon known as 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 Hampton Cottages.
Note. The above-mentioned lands and hereditaments were vested in the Official Trustee of Charity Lands by and Order of the Charity Commissioners of the 4th April 1933.
SEALED by Order of the Board this 17th day of January 1956.
NOTE 1:
At an extraordinary meeting of the Trustees on 24th May, 2011 a special resolution was passed whereby Para. 3 of this Governing Document was amended to allow the addition of one further Trustee:-
ORIGINAL:
“3. Trustees. The body of Trustees shall consist when complete of five competent persons being
Three Ex-Officio Trustees and
Two Representative Trustees”
REVISED:
“3. Trustees. The body of Trustees shall consist when complete of six competent persons
being
Three Ex-Officio Trustees and
Three Representative Trustees”