THE NEHEMIAH PROJECT

Registered charity 1058536 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Providing support and resettlement to vulnerable men recovering from addiction, whose lives often include offending and/or homelessness. Our 12 week programme offers a framework to rebuild their lives and move on through our houses to live independently without addiction.

Objects

1. THE RELIEF OF VULNERABLE PERSONS SUFFERING FROM HOMELESSNESS, POVERTY AND ADDICTION PRIMARILY BY RENEWING THEIR MINDS THROUGH REHABILITATION, EDUCATION AND TRAINING2. THE EMPOWERMENT OF PEOPLE SUFFERING FROM HOMELESSNESS, POVERTY AND ADDICTION BY ASSISTING THEM TO EMBRACE NEW LIFE STYLE PATTERNS3. THE RELIEF OF PERSONS THEIR FAMILIES AND DEPENDANTS IN CONDITIONS OF NEED HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS BY REASON OF THEIR SOCIAL OR ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES4. THE PROMOTION OF ANY OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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 Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Lambeth, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £102,460 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with total income of £1,157,135 and total expenditure of £1,054,675. Per the trustees' report, general unrestricted funds stood at £290,616, which is above the stated policy target of three months' operating costs (around £270k). The auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Begbies. Discloses 4 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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• 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)

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.

What the charity says about itself (2025)

From its own voluntary annual review / impact report — the charity’s account of its work, distinct from the statutory accounts analysed above.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Nehemiah Project (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Miriam Kennedy — CEO (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).

• The British Association of the Order of Malta — “The British Association of the Order of Malta has been a valued partner of Nehemiah since 2016. Over many years, their support has helped st…” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

5 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £435k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (51% 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: 6.7% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (09/03/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Colin Matthewschair · trustee of 1 other charity
• David Andrew Stewart
• Dr Rachel Campbell-Colquhoun
• Edward James Bathgate
• GAVIN SIMON BOYLE
• Joanna Susan Whitaker
• Marta Musolino
• Peter Michael Sieyes
• Robert Clarke · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• Colin Matthews — trustee here and at THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST STEPHEN, EAST TWICKENHAM

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 NEHEMIAH PROJECT SUPPORT TRUST.

• NEHEMIAH PROJECT SUPPORT TRUST income £58k
• THE ISAIAH PROJECT income £1.5m
• UMMAH HELP income £156k
• THE PEOPLE'S RECOVERY PROJECT income £213k
• UMMAH HELPING HANDS income £132k
• YAHWEH CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP income £177k

Side by side with its peers

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