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.

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

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.

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 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 7.0% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Jane Domineychair
• 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

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with C4WS HOMELESS PROJECT.

• C4WS HOMELESS PROJECT income £368k
• HOUSING THE HOMELESS CENTRAL FUND income £80k
• HOMELESS ACTION income £3.8m
• THE SOCIETY OF ST JAMES income £17.9m
• KINGSTON CHURCHES ACTION ON HOMELESSNESS income £1.2m
• SOMEWHERE TO GO LIMITED income £266k

Side by side with its peers

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