 Uxbridge United Welfare Trusts is managed by eleven trustees, all of whom are volunteers. The trustees are responsible to the Charity Commissioners for efficiently managing the charity's resources. The revised Scheme reaffirms the duty of trustees to ensure that their properties are well maintained and that the charity expenditure is applied (i) for the Almshouses and (ii) for Relief in Need. It also relaxes the period an applicant needs to reside in Uxbridge before qualifying for grant aid. Today, when there is any doubt as to whether there is sufficient reason or funds to allocate a grant, the trustees refer once more to the wills of their founders who gave express instructions that their gifts be used to help the poor, needy, and established, residents of the Uxbridge Urban area. At a time of rapid change in legislation and in a climate of unprecedented law suits, the trustees make sure there are sufficient funds set aside to protect the Trust and its future. They take all steps to ensure that the properties they have inherited, or purchased from legacies, are maintained resourcefully, managed efficiently and the income from them invested wisely. |