KINGSTON CHURCHES ACTION ON HOMELESSNESS

Registered charity 1075890 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as KCAH

The provision of housing and welfare benefits advice and advocacy for those who are homeless or threatened with homelessness. We also provide temporary housing for motivated single homeless people.

Objects

ESTABLISH TO RELIEVE POVERTY AND DISTRESS AMONGST PERSONS IN THE ROYAL BOROUGH OF KINGSTON UPON THAMES AND ITS SURROUNDING AREA BY THE PROVISION OF ACCOMMODATION INFORMATION ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE AND OTHER SERVICES AND RESOURCES ON HOUSING MATTERS.

Area of benefit: KINGSTON UPON THAMES

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Kingston upon Thames, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £12,071 for the year ended 31 March 2025, following a deficit in the prior year. Total income increased by 13.1% to £1,233,210, while total expenditure decreased slightly to £1,221,139. The trustees determined that the minimum level of free reserves to be held continues to be between £200,000 and £300,000, and unrestricted funds stood at £280,317 at year-end.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Shaw Gibbs (Audit) Limited. 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
• 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
• 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03735702

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — KCAH (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• STEVENS, Mark Richard — director, appointed 01/09/2025on trustee list
• ADAMS, Julian John — director, appointed 17/07/2024on trustee list
• EDWARDS, Peter William Constantine — director, appointed 17/07/2024on trustee list
• O'NEIL, Anne Catherine — director, appointed 17/07/2024on trustee list
• BODEN, Gillian — director, appointed 14/05/2024on trustee list
• SUTTON, Roger William — director, appointed 18/10/2018on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). 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 ~2.8 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (83% 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: 7.2% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Roger Suttonchair
• Gillian Boden
• Julian John Adams · trustee of 2 other charities
• Mark Richard Stevens
• PETER WILLIAM CONSTANTINE EDWARDS · trustee of 1 other charity
• ROBERT JOHN BAILEY · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Anne Catherine O'Neil · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Kingston Upon Thames

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 Church Homeless Charity.

• Church Homeless Charity income £421k
• KINGSGATE COMMUNITY CHURCH income £5.3m
• KING'S CHURCH IN GREATER MANCHESTER income £1.4m
• KING'S CHURCH LONDON income £3.2m
• KING'S CHURCH BIRMINGHAM income £381k
• CHRISTINE'S HOUSING SUPPORT CHARITY income £39k

Side by side with its peers

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