ACRE HOUSING

Registered charity 1010701 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Acre Housing provides and maintains accomodation and other properties for people with learning disabilities. They also provide advice and assistance in matters relating to the housing needs of people with learning disabilities. Acre Housing operates in Oxfordshire.

Objects

1TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF PERSONS WITH LEARNING DIFFICULTIES BY: 1. THE PROVISION, MAINTENANCE AND MANAGEMENT OF RESIDENTIAL AND OTHER ACCOMMODATION; 2. THE PROVISION OF ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE IN MATTERS RELATING TO THEIR HOUSING NEEDS

Area of benefit: BRIGHTWELL-CUM-SOTWELL AND SURROUNDING VILLAGES

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds stood at £12,780,283, with unrestricted reserves of £12,186,737. The trustees report that the charity is financially secure, noting that cash reserves reduced to £443,282 due to property purchases, while maintaining a reserves policy target of £10,000. The independent auditor confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by James Cowper Kreston Audit. 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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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

Property (HM Land Registry)

39 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (28 freehold); recorded price paid £5.3m. 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 ~197.8 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Stuart Bryan
• Jennifer Pozzoni
• John Alfred Linton
• Mark Stoddart

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

Operates in: Oxfordshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with STYLE ACRE.

• STYLE ACRE income £12.7m
• NORTHAMPTONSHIRE ACRE income £363k
• CAMBRIDGESHIRE ACRE income £936k
• ACTION WITH COMMUNITIES IN RURAL ENGLAND (ACRE) income £5.0m
• ACORN VILLAGES LIMITED income £4.7m
• FOCUS HOUSING NW income £400k

Side by side with its peers

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