Jane Annear today joined the board of LEAP as a trustee. She has worked for international high tech manufacturing companies for over 40 years and has a wide range of commercial experience. Jane is keen to use her experience to help with the objective of providing housing to improve the lives of individuals in need of assistance. Peter Hill, Chairman of LEAP welcomed Jane to the board of LEAP and hoped that she too would get the sense of satisfaction for doing something to help others.

Trustees of Legacy East Almshouse Partnership (LEAP), the corporate trustee of the Fuller Almshouses charity gathered with newly appointed residents, councillors from Stansted Mountfitchet Parish Council and other guests at the newly completed almshouses in Buxton Close, Stansted Mountfitchet to officially name them The Fuller’s Almshouses. Trustees, councillors and residents at the official opening and naming ceremony of Fullers Almshouses Peter Hill, Chairman of LEAP said “Today is a...

LEAP took on the management of the Fuller Almshouse Charity in 2021. It then comprised just a sum of money resulting from the sale of Fuller House in 2013. Fuller House, comprising 13 small almshouses, were the original almshouses in Stansted Mountfitchet built in 1882 by the wealthy Fuller Maitland family who lived in Stansted Hall at that time. Colne Housing, trustees of the Fuller Charity at that time of sale, could not find suitable housing in the area on which to spend the sale proceeds...