THRESHOLD HOUSING LINK

Registered charity 1017599 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Threshold Housing Link is a resettlement and supported accommodation charity providing emergency and long term supported accommodation and auxiliary services for single homeless people

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

Latest income

£1.6m

Latest spending

£1.2m

Registered

1993

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net income surplus of £417,162 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income increasing to £1,620,272. The trustees report that free reserves stood at £643,362 at year-end, which equates to 5.2 months' operating costs and meets the stated reserves policy target of three to six months' costs. The 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

Largest income source: Charitable activities (98% of income)

“Charitable activities 4 1,594,307 - 1,594,307” — page 15

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Reserves policy: three to six months’ operating costs (held: £643k)

“Within Threshold's Reserves & Investments Policy, the board has determined to hold three to six months’ operating costs as a buffer against unforeseen financial challenges” — page 6

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Haines Watts Swindon Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Lin Cattelain — 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)

4 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (4 freehold); recorded price paid £774k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

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

Total income

£1.6m

Total spending

£1.2m

Reserves (reported)

£643k

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~6.4 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (98% 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

Lindsey Cattelainchair
Alan Winfield
Jennifer Hall
Lorraine Connick
Penny Davies
Simon Godfrey
Tara Cozens

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

Operates in: Swindon · Wiltshire

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£1.6m	£1.2m
31/03/2024	£1.4m	£1.3m
31/03/2023	£728k	£618k
31/03/2022	£384k	£376k
31/03/2021	£357k	£312k

Common questions

Is THRESHOLD HOUSING LINK financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity generated a net income surplus of £417,162 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income increasing to £1,620,272. The trustees report that free reserves stood at £643,362 at year-end, which equates to 5.2 months' operating costs and meets the stated reserves policy target of three to six months' costs. The 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. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Haines Watts Swindon Limited.

Who funds THRESHOLD HOUSING LINK?

Funders whose own accounts filings name THRESHOLD HOUSING LINK as a grant recipient include THE W H SMITH GROUP CHARITABLE TRUST, COLUMBIA THREADNEEDLE FOUNDATION.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
THE W H SMITH GROUP CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2021	£1k
COLUMBIA THREADNEEDLE FOUNDATION	FY2023	£750	Supporting homelessness in Swindon

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
THE ROYAL FOUNDATION OF THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES	1	£719k
THE FIDELITY UK FOUNDATION	1	£305k
THE JONGEN CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£300k
MERSEY GATEWAY ENVIRONMENTAL TRUST	1	£200k
THE NATIONWIDE FOUNDATION	1	£153k
MOONDANCE FOUNDATION	1	£97k
JOHN LAING CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£90k
THE BLAGRAVE TRUST	1	£40k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THRESHOLD DAS LIMITED.

THRESHOLD DAS LIMITED income £1.8m
HOMELESS LINK income £10.0m
THROUGHCARE HOUSING & SUPPORT LTD income £477k
THAMES REACH HOUSING income £3.2m
TARGET HOUSING LIMITED income £18.6m
ACTION HOUSING AND SUPPORT LIMITED income £6.9m

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
THRESHOLD HOUSING LINK	£1.6m	—	—	within	—	no doubt
THRESHOLD DAS LIMITED FY2025	£1.8m	—	4	above	—	no doubt
HOMELESS LINK FY2025	£10.0m	£120,000 - £129,999	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THROUGHCARE HOUSING & SUPPORT LTD FY2024	£477k	—	0	below	—	no doubt
THAMES REACH HOUSING FY2025	£3.2m	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
TARGET HOUSING LIMITED FY2025	£18.6m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt

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