EMMAUS PRESTON

Registered charity 1073677 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as EMMAUS LANCASHIRE, Emmaus Lancashire

Establishment of an Emmaus Community for Homeless People at The Birches Ribbleton Lane Preston purchased by the Charity in January 2007. Warehouses and shops are operated by the Community to help fund the costs.

Objects

3.1 THE ALLEVIATION AND RELIEF OF POVERTY, HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS ARISING THEREFROM TO THOSE IN NEED WITHOUT DISTINCTION, AND IN FURTHERANCE OF THOSE OBJECTS BUT NOT OTHERWISE;3.2 TO PROVIDE ACCOMMODATION, OR ASSISTANCE IN SUCH PROVISION, COMMUNITY AND EMPLOYMENT FOR THE POOR AND HOMELESS IN LANCASHIRE AND SUCH OTHER PLACES AS MAY SEEM APPROPRIATE FROM TIME TO TIME.3.3 TO ADOPT AND ABIDE BY THOSE PRINCIPLES OF THE EMMAUS MOVEMENT AS PUBLISHED IN THE UNIVERSAL MANIFESTO OF THE EMMAUS MOVEMENT AND FROM TIME TO TIME BY EMMAUS AS ARE FROM TIME TO TIME RECOGNISED BY ENGLISH LAW AS BEING CHARITABLE.3.4 TO PROVIDE EDUCATION AND TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT TRAINING FOR THE BENEFICIARIES OF THE CHARITY AS APPROPRIATE AND RELEVANT TO THEIR RESPECTIVE NEEDS AND AS THE CHARITY MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE APPROPRIATE OR EXPEDIENT WITH THE PURPOSE INTER ALIA OF DEVELOPING SKILLS TO ENABLE THEM TO GAIN EMPLOYMENT.3.5 TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IN THE NEEDS OR POOR AND MARGINALISED PEOPLE THROUGH WHATEVER MEANS OF PUBLICITY OR EDUCATION THE CHARITY DEEMS FIT.3.6 TO SUPPORT THE WORK OF OTHER EMMAUS COMMUNITIES OR OTHER AGENCIES IN THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND HOMELESSNESS WHETHER IN THE UNITED KINGDOM OR ELSEWHERE IN THE WORLD AND IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION) BY THE EXCHANGE OF RESOURCES, INFORMATION AND EXPERTISE WITH OTHER EMMAUS COMMUNITIES WORLDWIDE.3.7 TO RECRUIT AND TRAIN WORKERS TO SUPPORT THE FURTHERANCE OF THE OBJECTS.3.8 TO FULFIL SUCH OTHER PURPOSES AS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME BE RECOGNISED BY ENGLISH LAW AS BEING CHARITABLE AND WHICH THE CHARITY SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.

Area of benefit: THE UNITED KINGDOM OR ELSEWHERE IN THE WORLD AND IN PARTICULAR, LANCASHIRE

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £54,851 for the year, reducing total funds to £909,838. Per the trustees' report, the charity holds free reserves of £555,705, which exceeds its stated policy target of three months' costs. The trustees confirmed adequate resources for going concern, noting that while retail income faced challenges due to store closures and relocation, the new department store is trading well.

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 6 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
• 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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03643570

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• CONLON, Patsy — director, appointed 09/10/2025on trustee list
• EDWARDS, Nicholas John — director, appointed 24/09/2020on trustee list
• RAWKINS, Jeremy John Bruce — director, appointed 25/04/2018on trustee list
• MEIN, Dorothy Jennifer — director, appointed 25/01/2018on trustee list
• PARKER, Simon — director, appointed 23/06/2016on trustee list
• CALDWELL, James Arthur — director, appointed 13/05/2010on trustee list
• DEAN, John Robert — director, appointed 08/04/2010on trustee list
• DERBYSHIRE, Kathleen Caroll — director, appointed 30/09/2006not on trustee list
• CONLON, Michael Gerard — director, appointed 30/09/2006on trustee list
• EDWARDS, Nicholas John — secretary, appointed 25/01/2022

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~6.5 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (59% 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: 43.3% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (30/10/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• JOHN ROBERT DEANchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Anthony Dalby
• Dorothy Jennifer Mein · trustee of 1 other charity
• James ARTHUR CALDWELL
• Jeremy John Bruce Rawkins · trustee of 1 other charity
• KATHERINE CAROLL DERBYSHIRE JP
• MICHAEL Gerard CONLON
• Nicholas John Edwards · trustee of 2 other charities
• Patsy Conlon
• SIMON PARKER

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with EMMAUS BRISTOL.

• EMMAUS BRISTOL income £788k
• EMMAUS SHEFFIELD income £659k
• EMMAUS SOUTH LAMBETH COMMUNITY income £1.8m
• EMMAUS HASTINGS AND ROTHER income £491k
• SUSSEX EMMAUS income £2.0m
• EMMAUS GLOUCESTERSHIRE income £1.2m

Side by side with its peers

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