Churches Housing Action Team (Devon) Ltd

Registered charity 1049478 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as C H A T, CHAT, CHURCHES HOUSING ACTION TEAM (MID DEVON) LIMITED, CHURCHES HOUSING ACTION TEAM (MID, DEVON) LIMITED, CHURCHES HOUSING ACTION TEAM (TIVERTON, DEVON) LIMITED

Provision of relief from homelessness

Objects

To relieve either generally or individually persons within the local authority area of Mid Devon without discrimination of sex or of political, religious or other opinions who are in conditions of need, hardship or distress by making grants of money or providing or paying for items services or facilities calculated to reduce the need, hardship, or distress of such persons and in particular to relieve persons who are homeless or threatened with homelessness or who are without secure permanent accommodation.

Area of benefit: 13 MILE RADIUS OF THE TOWN HALL TIVERTON, DEVON

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that total income increased by 10.6% to £540,736, while total expenditure rose slightly by 0.25% to £545,194, resulting in a small deficit for the year. The charity maintains unrestricted general reserves of £173,274, which exceeds its stated optimum target of £120,000, indicating a stable financial position despite rising demand and costs.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: going-concern doubt noted (FY2025) → no going-concern doubt (FY2026).

Comparing this charity’s FY2025 and FY2026 accounts as analysed by this site.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Financial Conduct Authority. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• Investment
• 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
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Churches Housing Action Team (Mid Devon) (matched by registered charity number).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~3.8 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (88% 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: 7.5% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (15/05/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Clive Martin Williamschair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Benjamin Luke Maynard
• Emma Victoria Weaver
• Jane Alexandra Wardle
• STEPHEN DAVID PAUL DAYKIN · trustee of 1 other charity
• Shelagh Maureen Eastwood
• Simon Anthony Cooper · trustee of 1 other charity
• TERENCE RALPH NORRIS
• Vivienne Kay Brewster

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

Operates in: Devon

Income and spending

Common questions

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
• Church Homeless Charity income £421k
• KINGSTON CHURCHES ACTION ON HOMELESSNESS income £1.2m
• ST CHRISTOPHER'S HOMES income £3.3m
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF CHRIST CHURCH DORE income £403k
• 3.13 income £1.4m

Side by side with its peers

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