HOMELESS ACTION

Registered charity 1063208 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE ASHLEY FOUNDATION

The relief of poverty by the provision of accommodation to persons in need and providing support to clients to assist them with the wider issues of homelessness.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF POVERTY BY THE PROVISION OF ACCOMMODATION TO PERSONS IN NEED AND IN SUCH OTHER WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT

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: Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Blackpool, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a consolidated surplus of £648,219 for the year ended 30 May 2025, with total unrestricted reserves standing at £3,807,610. The trustees consider the level of reserves to be sufficient, noting that 2.6 months of operational running costs are covered, which is slightly below their stated policy target of three months. The accounts were prepared on a going concern basis, with the auditor confirming no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue in operation.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Mitchell Charlesworth (Audit) Limited. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £100,000 - £110,000 (FY2024) to £100,001 - £110,000 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed 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)

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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/05/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.4 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (79% 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Allan Oldfield
• Dr Mark John O'Donnell
• Elizabeth Warren
• Lisa Margaret Edwards
• Simon Alastair Robinson

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

Operates in: Blackpool · Sunderland

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 ACTION HOMELESS (LEICESTER) LIMITED.

• ACTION HOMELESS (LEICESTER) LIMITED income £5.0m
• HARROGATE HOMELESS PROJECT LTD income £1.2m
• PROJECT 34 income £723k
• LANCASTER & DISTRICT HOMELESS ACTION SERVICE LIMITED income £219k
• ACTION HOUSING AND SUPPORT LIMITED income £6.9m
• CHESTER AID TO THE HOMELESS income £425k

Side by side with its peers

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