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WINCHESTER HOUSING TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 1061855 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Trust aims provides those in housing need within the Winchester district with affordable housing.

Causes: Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£2.0m
Latest spending
£1.5m
Registered
1997
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £365,264 for the year ended 30 September 2025, with unrestricted funds totaling £7,861,232. The trustees confirmed that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, with no material uncertainties identified by the auditors regarding its going concern status.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: two months of expenditure plus three months' lease charges less one month's rental income, equating to around £253,000 (held: £566k)
“The level of reserves to be maintained should be equivalent to the sum of. - 2months of WHT expenditure - 3 months’ (quarterly) lease charges payment to Rentplus less 1 month of Rentplus rental income. This would equate to around £253,000 (2024 - £213,000) in total.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by MC Audit Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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)

149 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (23 freehold); recorded price paid £1.5m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2025)

Total income
£2.0m
Total spending
£1.5m
Reserves (reported)
£7.9m
Employees
4

Reported reserves equal ~62.4 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (97% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Bracknell Forest · Hampshire · West Berkshire

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
30/09/2025£2.0m£1.5m
30/09/2024£2.1m£1.4m
30/09/2023£1.6m£1.3m
30/09/2022£1.2m£1.0m
30/09/2021£635k£593k

Common questions

Is WINCHESTER HOUSING TRUST LIMITED financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £365,264 for the year ended 30 September 2025, with unrestricted funds totaling £7,861,232. The trustees confirmed that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, with no material uncertainties identified by the auditors regarding its going concern status. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by MC Audit Limited.

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.

FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
THE IMP TRUST1£89k
WINCHESTER ROTARY CHARITABLE INCORPORATED ORGANISATION1£26k
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF CHRIST CHURCH WINCHESTER1£20k
THE CHARLOTTE BONHAM-CARTER CHARITABLE TRUST1£7k
THE GEOFF & FIONA SQUIRE FOUNDATION1£6k
LORD BARNBY'S FOUNDATION1£5k
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST CROSS WITH ST FAITH1£5k
HOSPICE AID UK1£2k

Charities like this

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

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
WINCHESTER HOUSING TRUST LIMITED£2.0m——above—no doubt
LAKELAND HOUSING TRUST FY2025£1.0m—0unclear—no doubt
THE WARRINGTON HOMES LIMITED FY2025£2.8m——above—no doubt
WINCHESTER DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE FY2025£14.2m——within—no doubt
WINNER TRADING LTD FY2025£2.2m—0unclear—no doubt
WINCHESTER HOSPICE FUNDRAISING CHARITY FY2025£712k—0within—no doubt

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