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St Marylebone Almshouses is an historic almshouse housing charity founded almost 200 years ago.
Click here to read about our history and our legacy.
We provide homes for people of retirement age who meet our eligibility criteria, have limited means, and who are able to live independently.
Based in the heart of St John’s Wood, in beautiful grounds, the Almshouses is a community of 20 one-bedroom apartments, each with its own separate entrance.
Residents are beneficiaries of the Charity. They are not tenants and they make a weekly financial contribution to the Charity for their accommodation.
We do not receive any public funding and have been significantly affected by increases in the cost of living and capital projects.
Meet a few of our current residents, who range in age from their sixties to their nineties. They all have a story to tell.
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Our older members have something to say
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2025
How You Can Help
Become a Friend: Be part of something special.
Volunteer Your Time: Whether it’s a few hours to make a difference.
Make a Christmas Donation: All proceeds help us improve the Almshouses by upgrading the bathrooms and installing a much-needed security system.
Your support ensures a safe environment for our residents.
In Summer of 2025, we are having a weekend party with music and stalls and would like to be involved or have something to sell on the grounds? Feel free to contact us. Check our our Venue section at the top to see the grounds.
Together, We Can Make a Difference.
Donations
Support Our Cause: Make a General Donation or to One or Both of our Current Fundraising Initiatives
Check out the importance of our fundraising initiatives and how your support will make a meaningful difference in the lives of our elderly residents. We do not receive any public funding and have been significantly affected by increases in the cost of living and capital projects.
Help Us Fund Improved Security
Why Your Support Matters
The Almshouses community has suffered from an increase in crime and anti-social behaviour in the local area, which there have been very limited resources to address.
Many of the residents are elderly and vulnerable and, whilst living independently, some have impaired hearing and vision.
There are daily incidents of intruders on our premises with resultant drug use, defecating in the grounds, anti-social and aggressive behaviour, and general nuisance.
Motorcycles and cycles are frequently driven on our pedestrian pathways.
The gardens are attractive, well-kept, and often mistaken for public areas.
There have been two recent burglaries, both when very elderly and vulnerable residents were at home.
Following consultation with a security expert and a surveyor, we have identified an urgent need for a significant security improvement to include the following:
raising the perimeter brick wall and installing decorative railings to enclose and secure the extensive perimeter;
controlled access gates with coded fobs and a video entry facility with a push pad for exiting the premises;
significantly enhanced CCTV;
extensive security lighting.
The installation of higher railings and gates will restore the perimeter of the Almshouses to the original design.
Planning permission is being sought for the perimeter works.
We urgently need to raise funds to cover the cost of these works, which are estimated to be in the region of £200,000 including irrecoverable VAT.
Our aim, subject to planning permission, is to complete the works by the summer of 2025.
Your generous donations will make a huge difference to the safety and well-being of our residents.
Specific Donations
DONATIONS PORTAL
You can make a monthly or yearly donation or a sum of your choice below. You can also add us to your Will. The funds will be used to help others who are less fortunate.
Help Us Upgrade Our Bathrooms
Old Bathrooms
New Bathrooms
We are reaching out to you for help with improving the quality of life for our elderly residents.
Our current bathroom facilities are outdated. With your generous donations, we can upgrade these bathrooms to provide modern facilities for our residents.
Why Your Support Matters
We have a rolling programme for replacing our outdated bathrooms.
So far, we have replaced six of our twenty-one bathrooms and fifteen need urgently to be replaced.
The cost of replacing each bathroom and of carrying out substantial remedial plumbing and pipeworks is around £12,000, including VAT, so we need to raise a total of £180,000.
We will replace each bathroom individually, as the funds become available.
Your generous donations will significantly improve the quality of life of our vulnerable residents.
Legacy Donations
If you're planning to make or update your Will, please consider including a donation to our charity. Your contribution will reflect your legacy, and greatly support our own. It will help us to fulfil our charitable purposes, now and in the future.
Please speak to us to discuss legacy donations – contact clerk.stmarylebonealmshouses@gmail.com
DONATIONS PORTAL
You can make a monthly or yearly donation or a sum of your choice below. You can also add us to your Will. The funds will be used to help others who are less fortunate.
Looking for a Professional Fundraiser
We are looking for a professional fundraiser to help us to raise funds for our charity. Please contact us.