HERTS YOUNG HOMELESS GROUP

Registered charity 1069498 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HERTS HEALTH ACTION WITH THE HOMELESS, HYHG

Our mission is to break the cycle of youth homelessness in Hertfordshire through education, advice and support for young people and their families. We work with young people who are homeless, at risk of homelessness or whose families are at risk of relationship breakdown. We also work with care experienced young people and those aged 18-25 with mental health and substance misuse challenges.

Objects

(A)TO RELIEVE THE POVERTY AND DISTRESS OF PEOPLE, AND PARTICULARLY YOUNG PEOPLE, WHO ARE SUFFERING FROM THE EFFECTS OF HOMELESSNESS OR BAD HOUSING, OR THE THREAT OF HOMELESSNESS, PARTICULARLY THROUGH A COMPREHENSIVE HOUSING AID AND ADVICE SERVICE, AND TO SUPPORT AND COUNSEL SUCH INDIVIDUALS WITH COMPLEX HEALTH ISSUES, INCLUDING THOSE WITH MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES OR SUBSTANCE MISUSE ISSUES. (B) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC ABOUT THE NEEDS PEOPLE, AND PARTICULARLY YOUNG PEOPLE, WHO ARE SUFFERING FROM THE EFFECTS OF HOMELESSNESS, BAD HOUSING OR THREATENED HOMELESSNESS.

Area of benefit: HERTFORDSHIRE

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Welwyn Hatfield, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity recorded a deficit of £19,158 for the year ended 31 March 2025, which was an improvement against the budgeted loss of £110,829. Per the trustees' report, the charity closed the year with free unrestricted reserves of £496,558, which is within its stated policy target of maintaining three to six months' total cost of charitable activities.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Moore Kingston Smith LLP. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2024) to "within" (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
• 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Herts Young Homeless Group (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.0 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (70% 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: 18.5% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (17/01/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Peter Michael Hollandchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Alexander James Gurr
• Caitriona Quigley
• Carol Michelle Shutkever
• DAVID JOHN BALL · trustee of 1 other charity
• Hannah Louise Victor
• MATHEW BAXTER · trustee of 1 other charity
• PAUL GROVES
• Ruth Jennifer Barnes
• Sarah Victoria Milsom
• Timothy Giles Willies

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

Operates in: Hertfordshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Helping Herts.

• Helping Herts income £277k
• HALTON YMCA LIMITED income £401k
• BYHP (TACKLING THE ROOT CAUSES OF YOUTH HOMELESSNESS) income £424k
• BARDSLEY YOUTH PROJECT income £162k
• BROXTOWE YOUTH HOMELESSNESS income £155k
• Y SERVICES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE income £282k

Side by side with its peers

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