Support our work
Help us achieve our charitable goals and help more people. While fundraising activity, donations and legacies have all helped us get us to where we are today, we feel this is only the beginning.
There are other ways you can help. An innovative way to support our work is by allowing us to ‘use your money’. Rather than making a donation outright, which we appreciate is not always practical, you may consider allowing access to monies in the form of a loan – through inheritance and succession planning.
This can offer the flexibility for funds intended for grandchildren in 20–30 years’ time to be used, in the meantime, for charitable purposes, whilst safeguarding your money in a hassle-free form of property investment.
At Addington, we have a sustainable business model which aims to raise enough income from our own resources, through subsidised rents and returns on investments, to cover our day-to-day running costs. As such, all general donations we receive can be used to directly to the benefit of the families they are intended for, either through a hardship grant or the provision of appropriate housing. In fact, due to the efficiency of our structure, we are able to pay out a very high % for every £1 donated to a good cause - making us an exceptional charity.
By operating this way, we can explore other avenues to fund our housing work, which are not appropriate for many other charities. Within our Retirement Homes scheme, a revolving portfolio of open-market properties has the flexibility to accept loans under varying conditions.
Loans
We would be delighted to accept interest free loans from likeminded donors and stakeholders who are then able to share uplift values when properties are sold or the investments comes to an end. These loans can be for a set number of years or could be linked to the lifetime of a tenant or beneficiary. Such opportunities generally appeal to other charities including show societies or charitable trusts who then generally get a return on investment while meeting their own charitable objectives. Our aim is to keep these agreements simple and clear to help both parties.
Shared equity agreements
Individual farming families who are looking to exit, or retire, can enter into a shared equity agreement with us. We encounter many families who have planned and saved for their retirement but could not have foreseen how house prices would rise so sharply over recent decades. Through a Declaration of Trust, our shared equity arrangements may be your best route to securing your future home.
