STREETSMART-ACTION FOR THE HOMELESS

Registered charity 1071657 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also registered in Scotland as SC043021 (OSCR)

The Trust arranges primarily but not exclusively for restaurants to ask their customers in the months of November and December to provide a voluntary ?1 (one pound) per table contribution. This has been extended to Hotels asking customers for ?1(one pound) per stay contribution

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£1.2m
Latest spending
£1.2m
Registered
1998
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds increased to £347,405, with unrestricted reserves at £344,298. The charity reported a net surplus of £37,813 for the year, funded by £1,240,564 in incoming resources against £1,202,751 in expenditure. The trustees confirmed adequate resources for going concern, noting the charity's success depends on the hospitality industry.

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

What the accounts disclose

Related-party transaction: 11. Related party transactions
“During the year the Trustees paid fees of £43,200 (2024 - £39,000) to G Pougnet, the secretary of the Trustees.” — page 20
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Sopher + Co LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Streetsmart - Action for the Homeless (matched by registered charity number).

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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/05/2025)

Total income
£1.2m
Total spending
£1.2m
Reserves (reported)
£344k
Employees
0

Reported reserves equal ~3.4 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (100% 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: Scotland · Throughout England

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/05/2025£1.2m£1.2m
31/05/2024£1.2m£1.3m
31/05/2023£939k£953k
31/05/2022£885k£827k
31/05/2021£361k£362k

Common questions

Is STREETSMART-ACTION FOR THE HOMELESS financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that total funds increased to £347,405, with unrestricted reserves at £344,298. The charity reported a net surplus of £37,813 for the year, funded by £1,240,564 in incoming resources against £1,202,751 in expenditure. The trustees confirmed adequate resources for going concern, noting the charity's success depends on the hospitality industry. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Sopher + Co LLP.

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 PROJECT 34.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
STREETSMART-ACTION FOR THE HOMELESS£1.2m—0unclear—no doubt
PROJECT 34 FY2024£723k—0above—no doubt
SALISBURY TRUST FOR THE HOMELESS LTD FY2025£406k—0above—no doubt
ACCOMMODATION CONCERN FY2025£1.5m£60,001 - £70,0001unclear—no doubt
HOSPITALITY ACTION FY2024£3.9m——unclear—no doubt
Church Homeless Charity FY2025£421k—0above19.0%no doubt

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