EMMAUS BRISTOL

Registered charity 1071538 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provision of home and work experience for homeless and socially disadvantaged people in a Community setting.

Objects

THE ALLEVIATION AND RELIEF OF POVERTY, HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS ARISING THEREFROM TO THOSE IN NEED WITHOUT DISTINCTION(FOR FURTHER DETAILS SEE MEMORANDUM)

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE CITY OF BRISTOL,BATH AND NORTH EAST SOMERSET, S.GLOUCESTER

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

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

Registered contact address: Bristol, City of, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a consolidated deficit of £131,609 for the year ended 30 June 2025, resulting in total funds decreasing to £1,613,267. The trustees identified that costs are rising faster than income and stated that stabilising the financial position and rebuilding reserves is the board’s top priority. While unrestricted funds are currently negative, the charity maintains designated and restricted funds to support its operations.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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 handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Emmaus Bristol (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

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: 2.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (20/02/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ann Elizabeth Carrington
• DAVID SPOTTISWOODE
• Elaine Olphert
• Gerald Patrick McAuliffe
• James Robert Skuce
• Luke McCreery
• Victor Wheeler

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

Operates in: Bath And North East Somerset · Bristol City · North Somerset · South Gloucestershire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

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 EMMAUS BOLTON.

• EMMAUS BOLTON income £981k
• EMMAUS STAFFORDSHIRE income £560k
• EMMAUS CAMBRIDGE income £2.0m
• EMMAUS SHEFFIELD income £659k
• EMMAUS SOUTH WALES income £722k
• EMMAUS HAMPSHIRE income £997k

Side by side with its peers

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