The Poor’s Land Charity provides housing in our Almshouses for the elderly residents of Woodley, Sandford & Charvil and adjacent parishes.
The Trust also provides help by making small grants as ‘Relief in Need’.
The Poor’s Land Charity (Woodley, Sandford and Charvil Charitable Trust) was established on the 11th July, 1972 and previously was known as the Fuel Allotment Charity. In 1990 the Charity Commissioners approved a scheme for the regulation of the Charity.
Allotment land belonging to the Charity in Woodley was used for providing fuel which was allocated to those in need who were resident in the parishes of Woodley, Sandford and Charvil. In the 1970s the allotment land was sold and the proceeds used to purchase and develop a parcel of land and provide residential properties in Woodley. This site was called Cedar Place and situated in Loddon Bridge Road, Woodley. Fourteen flats and four bungalows were constructed from 1979 to 1993 to provide Almshouses for the poor.