JIMMY'S CAMBRIDGE

Registered charity 1058737 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as JIMMY'S, JIMMY'S NIGHT SHELTER LIMITED, JIMMYS

The charity's objects are to relieve poverty amongst persons in the City of Cambridge who are homeless or sleeping rough

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

Latest income
£2.5m
Latest spending
£2.5m
Registered
1996
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity had a small deficit of £3,241 for the year ended 31 March 2025, compared to a deficit of £194,877 in the prior year. Free reserves stood at £740,411, which the trustees consider satisfactory and above their policy target of three months of budgeted operating expenditure (£652,619).

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

What the accounts disclose

Highest-paid employee band: more than £60,000 — below the median for charities its size (£70k)
“one member of staff was paid more than £60,000 in this financial year”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Employees paid over £60,000: 1
“one member of staff was paid more than £60,000 in this financial year”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Reserves policy: three months of budgeted operating expenditure (held: £740k)
“The Trustees’ reserves policy is to hold 3 months of budgeted operating expenditure, which is currently £652,619.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Chater Allan LLP. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Jimmy's Cambridge (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

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)

7 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (4 freehold); recorded price paid £787k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Total income
£2.5m
Total spending
£2.5m
Cost of raising funds
£18k
Reserves (reported)
£740k
Employees
54

Reported reserves equal ~3.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 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: 0.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

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Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£2.5m£2.5m
31/03/2024£2.3m£2.5m
31/03/2023£2.2m£2.3m
31/03/2022£2.3m£1.9m
31/03/2021£2.5m£1.6m

Common questions

Is JIMMY'S CAMBRIDGE financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity had a small deficit of £3,241 for the year ended 31 March 2025, compared to a deficit of £194,877 in the prior year. Free reserves stood at £740,411, which the trustees consider satisfactory and above their policy target of three months of budgeted operating expenditure (£652,619). Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Chater Allan LLP.

What does the highest-paid employee of JIMMY'S CAMBRIDGE earn?

Per its FY2025 accounts, the highest-paid employee was in the more than £60,000 band, and 1 employees earned over £60,000.

Who funds JIMMY'S CAMBRIDGE?

Funders whose own accounts filings name JIMMY'S CAMBRIDGE as a grant recipient include THE EVELYN TRUST, PETER SOWERBY FOUNDATION, THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF SAFFRON WALDEN, THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST MARY THE LESS, CAMBRIDGE, THE THERMOSAFE FOUNDATION.

Known funders

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

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 CAMBRIDGE CYRENIANS LIMITED.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
JIMMY'S CAMBRIDGE£2.5mmore than £60,0001unclear—no doubt
CAMBRIDGE CYRENIANS LIMITED FY2025£1.7m—0within—no doubt
UNITED CHARITIES OF CAMBRIDGE FY2025£387k—0above—no doubt
CAMBRIDGE HOUSE AND TALBOT FY2025£2.2m——unclear1.4%no doubt
IT TAKES A CITY (CAMBRIDGE) FY2025£479k—0below—no doubt
ROYAL CAMBRIDGE HOME LIMITED FY2025£1.6m£80,001 - £90,0001unclear—no doubt

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