SAFE AND SOUND HOMES

Registered charity 1054890 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as YORK NIGHTSTOP, YORK NIGHTSTOP CHARITY

SASH prevents vulnerable young people from becoming homeless by offering them a room in a volunteer?s home. We provide emergency accommodation through our Nightstop Service for up to 14 nights. Longer term accommodation, for up to 2 years is provided through our Supported Lodgings schemes.

Objects

A)THE RELIEF OF POVERTY OF PERSONS AGED BETWEEN SIXTEEN AND TWENTY-FIVE YEARS IN YORK, NORTH YORKSHIRE AND OTHER AREAS IN THE NORTH OF ENGLAND (“THE AREA”) WHO ARE HOMELESS, IN PARTICULAR THROUGH THE PROVISION OF EMERGENCY OVERNIGHT ACCOMMODATION;B) TO PROMOTE AND UNDERTAKE SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES AS ARE CONSIDERED TO BE FOR THE BENEFIT OF YOUNG HOMELESS PEOPLE IN THE AREA.

Area of benefit: YORK, NORTH YORKSHIRE AND OTHER AREAS IN THE NORTH OF ENGLAND

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

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

Registered contact address: York, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £225,608 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £740,229 to £514,621. The trustees note that unrestricted reserves of £510,000 remain above their stated minimum policy target of £300,000, providing a foundation for continued operations despite the loss of a major local authority contract.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by UHY Calvert Smith LLP. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 0 (FY2024) → 1 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). 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
• Investing charity funds 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
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — SASH (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Philippa Robson — Chief Executive (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.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.8 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (74% 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: 14.2% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Tarnia Jane Hudsonchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Bram David Jarman
• Dorien Marie Scheets
• Harry Charles Wells Dee
• Ian Nicholas Blakeman
• Jade Husdan-Hicks
• Lance Vaughan Hill
• Martin Jeffery
• Richard Yeomans
• Valerie Catherine Cotter

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

Operates in: City Of York · East Riding Of Yorkshire · Kingston Upon Hull City · North Yorkshire

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 Gap Supported Housing.

• Gap Supported Housing income £320k
• SUSSEX NIGHTSTOP PLUS LIMITED income £194k
• NIGHTSAFE LIMITED income £1.3m
• SLEAP income £62k
• SANDWELL HOMELESS AND RESETTLEMENT PROJECT LIMITED income £566k
• REDDITCH NIGHTSTOP income £238k

Side by side with its peers

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