SHAP LTD

Registered charity 1075118 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ST HELENS ACCOMMODATION PROJECT LIMITED

Shap provides a range of supported housing services across Merseyside. These services range from the provision of emergency accommodation for young homeless people to specialist support for young parents. We work in communities to support people who have been homeless or who are vulnerable because of mental health issues, drug or alcohol use or other factors.

Objects

TO PROVIDE ACCOMMODATION FOR SINGLE HOMELESS PEOPLE IN ST HELENS, WHO ARE NECESSITOUS WITH PARTICULAR REGARD TO YOUNG PEOPLE ESPECIALLY THOSE THOUGHT BY CARING AGENCIES E.G. SOCIAL SERVICES TO BE HOUSED IN UNSUITABLE ACCOMMODATION.

Area of benefit: ST. HELENS

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 · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: St. Helens, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a net income surplus of £35,104 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total unrestricted reserves of £749,097. Per the trustees' report, the charity maintains reserves in line with its policy target of holding funds sufficient for an optimum period of 6 months and a minimum of 3 months' running costs. The trustees consider the charity to be a going concern, noting that while financial stability has been retained through tight controls, the organization faces ongoing inflationary pressures and challenges in achieving full cost recovery for service contracts.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by C A Hunter Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Inspectorate Wales (CIW); Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). 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
• 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
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 4 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2025 (received 28/04/2026, 87 days after the 31/01/2026 due date); year ending 31/03/2024 (received 06/02/2025, 6 days after the 31/01/2025 due date); year ending 31/03/2023 (received 06/08/2024, 188 days after the 31/01/2024 due date); year ending 31/03/2021 (received 02/02/2022, 2 days after the 31/01/2022 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.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Mark Weights — Chief Executive Officer (CEO) (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.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter 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).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (26/10/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Diane Williamschair
• MARY MILTON
• Peter Barron
• Siobhan Cotter-Burgess

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

Operates in: Halton · Knowsley · Liverpool City · St Helens · Wrexham

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Gap Supported Housing.

• Gap Supported Housing income £320k
• SPEAR HOUSING ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £4.6m
• SHAPE income £226k
• SHAP SWIMMING POOL income £65k
• HOMELESS ACTION RESOURCE PROJECT income £11.8m
• SHAP COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE income £45k

Side by side with its peers

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