ST PAUL'S HOSTEL

Registered charity 1043921 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ST PAULS HOSTEL (WORCESTER)

St. Paul's Hostel provides a 24-hour direct access hostel for homeless aged 16 or over in the City of Worcester. The charity provides support to clients across the county with a wide range of issues which caused their homelessness and provide the support and care necessary to enable our clients to assume the level of independence for which they are capable of taking responsibility.

Objects

TO RELIEVE EITHER INDIVIDUALLY OR GENERALLY PERSONS IN THE WORCESTER AREA WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS

Area of benefit: WORCESTER AREA

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

Causes: Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Worcester, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that free reserves amounted to £421,352, which the trustees consider reasonable and appropriate for the size of the charity. The charity reported a net movement in funds of £5,331 for the year, supported by high occupancy levels and increased grants, legacies, and donations. The trustees believe there are 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 RD Accounting Limited. 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• 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
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03009035

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — St Pauls Hostel (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Erica — CEO (source)
• Debbie Morris — Chair (source)
• Philip Fowler — Vice 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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Sanctuary — “A dedicated Housing and Care provider and passionate advocate for local initiatives, proudly empowering communities through their Community …” (source page)
• The Eveson Trust — “A Registered Charity committed to empowering communities across Herefordshire, Worcestershire, and the West Midlands by providing vital fina…” (source page)
• Garfield Weston Foundation — “The Garfield Weston Foundation, a family-founded grant-maker, generously supports a wide range of charities across the UK, donating an impre…” (source page)
• Worcestershire Ambassadors — “St Paul’s receive funding through WA events like their Annual Fundraising Ball and Strictly Come Dancing. A raffle on the night was also mat…” (source page)
• Barclays — “St Paul’s receive funding through WA events like their Annual Fundraising Ball and Strictly Come Dancing. A raffle on the night was also mat…” (source page)

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• JEFFERSON, Jo-Anne Elizabeth — director, appointed 15/09/2025on trustee list
• HUDSON, Michael William — director, appointed 22/10/2024on trustee list
• CLIFF, Samantha Alexandra — director, appointed 21/06/2018on trustee list
• ARCHER, Karl Devere — director, appointed 10/01/2017on trustee list
• ROTHWELL, Matthew Anthony — director, appointed 10/01/2017on trustee list
• BOLTON, Claire — director, appointed 21/01/2015on trustee list
• FOWLER, Philip Andrew — director, appointed 10/12/2014on trustee list
• MORRIS, Debra Jayne — director, appointed 22/05/2013not on trustee list
• COLLINS, Deborah Ann — secretary, appointed 01/10/2024

Official officers record.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~6.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (92% 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: 0.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (23/06/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (21/09/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Claire Bolton
• Debbie Morris
• Jo-Anne Elizabeth Jefferson
• Karl Devere Archer
• Matthew Anthony Rothwell
• Michael Hudson
• Philip Fowler
• Samantha Cliff

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

Operates in: Worcestershire

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

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.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BOSCO SOCIETY LTD.

• BOSCO SOCIETY LTD income £1.1m
• DOORSTEP OF HULL income £2.2m
• GROUP FOR THE ROOTLESS OF WATFORD (G R O W ) income £673k
• CHESTER AID TO THE HOMELESS income £425k
• EAST PARK HOSTEL FOR THE HOMELESS income £34k
• HOWARD DE WALDEN HOSTEL CHARITY income £91k

Side by side with its peers

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