DIRECT HELP & ADVICE LTD.

Registered charity 1073231 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as DERBYSHIRE HOUSING AID, DERBYSHIRE HOUSING AID LTD

Direct Help & Advice (DHA) is an independent charity established in 1995 which promotes community cohesion and helps people out of debt, poverty, homelessness and into work and volunteering.

Objects

(A) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE IMPOVERISHED, HOMELESS OR THREATENED WITH HOMELESSNESS, AND/OR WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS(B) TO OPERATE AS A HOUSING TRUST FOR THE PROVISION OF EMERGENCY ACCOMMODATION AND/OR TEMPORARY, SHARED AND SETTLED ACCOMMODATION FOR THOSE PEOPLE EXPERIENCING POVERTY, POOR HOUSING AND HOMELESSNESS. TO CARRY OUT SUPPORT, COUNSELLING, ACTIVITIES AND TRADING ANCILLARY TO ACCOMMODATION WHICH DEVELOP THE SKILLS AND ABILITIES OF PERSONS WHO ARE EXPERIENCING POOR HOUSING AND/OR HOMELESSNESS TO LIVE INDEPENDENTLY AND ENHANCE THEIR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES.(C) TO PROVIDE APPROPRIATE ADVICE AND GUIDANCE ON HOUSING, HOMELESSNESS, AND/OR SOCIAL WELFARE ISSUES AND/OR RELATED TOPICSTHE PROVISION OF EMERGENCY ACCOMMODATION, TEMPORARY AND SETTLED ACCOMMODATION FOR THOSE PEOPLE EXPERIENCING POOR HOUSING AND HOMELESSNESSTO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF PERSONS WHO THROUGH THEIR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES ARE IN NEED AND UNABLE TO GAIN EMPLOYMENT AND IN PARTICULAR TO PROMOTE OR SUPPORT SCHEMES WHERE SUCH PERSONS MAY RECEIVE WORK EXPERIENCE AND VOCATIONAL TRAINING FOR PERIODS SUITABLE FOR THEIR NEEDS SO THAT THEY ARE ABLE TO ACHIEVE BETTER SOCIAL INTEGRATION AND/OR IMPROVED CHANCES OF SECURING EMPLOYMENT

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: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported total income of £1,237,758 and total expenditure of £1,142,308, resulting in a net movement in funds of £95,450. The trustees confirm that unrestricted reserves of £1,321,687 are adequate in respect of the reserves growth plan, and the auditor found no material uncertainties regarding the going concern basis.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Dains Audit Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Financial Conduct Authority. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or 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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold); recorded price paid £230k. 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 ~4.8 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (95% 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

• Justine Erika Claxtonchair
• David Walsh
• Leysa Relf
• Nicholas Maxwell Adlam

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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

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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 DISABILITY DIRECT.

• DISABILITY DIRECT income £4.2m
• DEVELOPING HEALTH AND INDEPENDENCE income £11.5m
• ADVICE UK income £6.0m
• FRONTLINE DEBT ADVICE (UK) income £57k
• Derbyshire Addictions Advice Service income £969k
• ADDICTION RECOVERY AGENCY LTD income £6.2m

Side by side with its peers

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