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

Objects

FOR THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND SICKNESS AND IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING) AMONG THE HOMELESS IN LONDON.

Area of benefit: LONDON

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Southwark, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

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

Accounts audited by Sopher + Co LLP. Discloses 4 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 policy and procedures
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/05/2022 (received 29/06/2023, 90 days after the 31/03/2023 due date); year ending 31/05/2021 (received 27/07/2022, 118 days after the 31/03/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Glenn Pougnet — Director (source)

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).

• LandAid — “StreetSmart partners LandAid – the property industry charity working to end youth homelessness have partnered with Streetsmart to maximise t…” (source page)

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.4 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• WILLIAM MATTHEW TIMOTHY SIEGHARTchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• MARY LOU STURRIDGE
• NICHOLAS BERESFORD BRER Emley
• ROSIE BOYCOTT

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

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 STREET SUPPORT NETWORK LIMITED.

• STREET SUPPORT NETWORK LIMITED income £115k
• LANCASTER & DISTRICT HOMELESS ACTION SERVICE LIMITED income £219k
• HELP FOR HOMELESS income £66k
• HOMELESS ACTION income £3.8m
• WARMING UP THE HOMELESS income £542k
• CHESTER AID TO THE HOMELESS income £425k

Side by side with its peers

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