CLEVELAND HOUSING TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 1059437 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CLEVELAND HOUSING AID TRUST LIMITED, CLEVELAND HOUSING TRUST LTD · filing overdue (register status)

Property Rental for people in necessitous circumstances, commissioning the construction of new properties. Providing support and advice about housing matters.

Objects

TO RELIEVE PERSONS WHO ARE IN NECESSITOUS CIRCUMSTANCES OR WHO ARE OTHERWISE IN NEED BY (A) PROVIDING AN ADVICE AND COUNSELLING SERVICE IN MATTERS RELATED TO HOUSING AND ASSOCIATED SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC PROBLEMS AND (B) BY PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF TEMPORARY OR PERMANENT ACCOMODATION FOR SUCH PERSONS.

Area of benefit: IN PRACTISE WITH THE GEOGRAPHICAL BOUNDARIES OF THE RECENTLY ABOLISHED COUNTY OF CLEVELAND.

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

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Registered contact address: Stockton-on-Tees, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's financial position is very sound, with unrestricted reserves of £9,775,577 and cash reserves over £5 million. The trustees report that the charity has achieved regular surpluses and maintains a reserve policy requiring liquid funds sufficient to fund four to five months of expenditure. The auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Wm Fortune and Son. 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 policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 4 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/10/2022 (received 03/10/2023, 33 days after the 31/08/2023 due date).

1 further annual return is past its due date with no recorded received date (Charity Commission register).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Property (HM Land Registry)

41 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (8 freehold); recorded price paid £1.7m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/10/2024)

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (69% 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: 59.4% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Glenda Burn
• Harold Eddy

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

Operates in: Hartlepool · Redcar And Cleveland · Stockton-on-tees

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LAKELAND HOUSING TRUST.

• LAKELAND HOUSING TRUST income £1.0m
• CHELTENHAM HOUSING AID CENTRE income £252k
• LYVENNET COMMUNITY TRUST income £90k
• CHRISTINE'S HOUSING SUPPORT CHARITY income £39k
• BOGNOR HOUSING TRUST income £376k
• CHARTFORD HOUSING LIMITED income £3.4m

Side by side with its peers

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