Kingsdowne Residential Home (07450225): administration
- Status
- Administration ended
- Administration began
- 2017-08-08
- Administrators
- Mark Christopher Ford, Adam Henry Stephens
- Administrators' firm
- Evelyn Partners
- Incorporated
- 2010-11-24
- Location
- London
- Industry
- 87300 Residential care activities for the elderly and disabled
Why it went into administration
- Regulatory change or action
- Funding withdrawn / unable to refinance
- Competition / price pressure
From the administrators' statement
The Kingsdowne Society is a charity governed by a Declaration of Trust dated 18 November 1930, as amended by resolution dated 10 May 1972, and further amended by scheme dated 4 November 2011. The Kingsdowne Society is registered at the Charity Commission with number 211069.
In accordance with the trust documentation, the Charitable Trust was established to relieve distress in any part of the metropolitan area and to provide or assist in providing haliday homes for poor children. For many years the Charitable Trust has been operating as a care home for older peopte with the trustees of the Charitable Trust taking the view that running a care home is essentially seeking to “relieve distress”. The matter of whether the Charitable Trust has been operating within its objects has been considered previously by the trustees and the Charity Commission prior ta our appointment.
The Charitable Trust maintained a care home at 37 Dury Road, Hadley Green, Barnet, EN5 5PU which is registered with the CQC to provide nursing or personal care to a maximum of 18 residents over 65 years old.
Administrators' statement of proposals (2017-09-26) · Companies House register