HIBISCUS HOUSING PROJECT

Registered charity 1074024 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To provide housing and support for elderly people primarily but not exclusively of African & Caribbean origin in Newham to enable them to live as independently as possible and to organise activities such as Keep Fit, Healthy eating, Computer use, Tai-chi, Soft furnishings, for both resident and non-resident service users to mitigate loneliness and isolation.

Objects

THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE PROJECT IS ESTABLISHED ARE FOR THE RELIEF OF FRAIL ELDERLY PEOPLE IN NEED BY PROVIDING AND ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF HOUSING AND OTHER ACCOMMODATION AND OTHER ASSISTANCE FOR SUCH PEOPLE AND IN SO DOING:- (1) TO PROVIDE HIGH STANDARD SELF-CONTAINED ACCOMMODATION FOR FRAIL ELDERLY PEOPLE PARTICULARLY THOSE OF CARIBBEAN AND AFRICAN ORIGIN WHO LIVE OR WORK IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF NEWHAM; (11) TO PROVIDE HOUSING AND SUPPORT COMMENSURATE WITH THE INDIVIDUAL NEEDS OF FRAIL ELDERLY PEOPLE PARTICULARLY THOSE OF CARIBBEAN AND AFRICAN ORIGIN TO ENABLE THEM TO LIVE AS INDEPENDENTLY AS POSSIBLE; AND (111) TO PROVIDE HOME-FROM-HOME FACILITIES IN A CULTURALLY SENSITIVE ENVIRONMENT AND ENABLE EACH TENANT TO LIVE IN HIS OR HER HOME FOR AS LONG AS THEY WANT, EVEN IF THEIR NEEDS CHANGE AND THEIR CARE REQUIREMENTS INCREASE.

Area of benefit: LONDON BOROUGH OF NEWHAM

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 · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £41,693, which the trustees consider sufficient to meet contingencies and day-to-day capital requirements. The charity faces financial pressure from rising rent charges by its landlord, L&Q, which has resulted in a reduction of reserves, though the organization remains solvent with net assets of £61,693.

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 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 handling
• 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
• 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 03446281

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.

• WATSON, Hazel — director, appointed 18/09/2015on trustee list

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• HAZEL WATSONchair
• Alvin Chrouch
• Beverly Biggs
• Coraldene Imelda Howsen

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

Operates in: Newham

Income and spending

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