WINTERCOMFORT FOR THE HOMELESS

Registered charity 1003083 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WINTERCOMFORT

The relief of poverty, sickness and distress among people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness, and who are suffering from social, economic and emotional distress.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND SICKNESS AND DISTRESS AMONG PEOPLE WHO ARE HOMELESS OR AT RISK OF HOMELESSNESS AND WHO ARE SUFFERING FROM SOCIAL, ECONOMIC AND EMOTIONAL DISTRESS IN SUCH MANNER AS THE COMPANY MAY IN ITS ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT.

Area of benefit: IN PRACTICE, CAMBRIDGE

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Cambridge, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a surplus of £33,889 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total unrestricted free reserves standing at £674,124. Per the trustees' report, the charity holds reserves within its stated target range of two to four months of operating costs to manage income fluctuations. The auditors confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Goodman Jones LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Wintercomfort For The Homeless (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Sarah Halls — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Jane Dominey — Chair (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~7.1 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 7.0% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jane Domineychair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Andrew Archer
• Emma Barker
• Ian Barker
• MATTHEW MCKEAGUE
• Susan Cooksley

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Cambridgeshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HOMELESS ACTION.

• HOMELESS ACTION income £3.8m
• HOMELESS IN TEIGNBRIDGE SUPPORT income £88k
• HARROGATE HOMELESS PROJECT LTD income £1.2m
• REFUGEES AT HOME income £924k
• CHESTER AID TO THE HOMELESS income £425k
• PROJECT 34 income £723k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.