THE SPIRES CENTRE

Registered charity 1076888 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SPIRES

Spires is a center for homeless and disadvantaged people. We aim to provide options that allow service users to gain stability in their lives. Services include a rough sleeper's space, showers, clothing, food, women's group, drug and alcohol work, adult learning, mental health support, optician, nurse, dentist, chiropodist, resettlement, tenancy support, outreach, advocacy and emotional support.

Objects

The relief of persons in need by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage, in particular in South London and the surrounding area, by providing counselling, information, advice, food, clothing and other items through outreach and by any other charitable means.

Area of benefit: STREATHAM AND THE SURROUNDING AREA.

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 · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Lambeth, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net income of £168,543 for the year ended 30 September 2025, resulting in total funds increasing to £485,368. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £435,368, which exceeds the stated policy target of between £158,000 and £317,000. The trustees confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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 5 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
• 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
• 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.

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

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~6.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 1.9% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alison Margaret Josling
• Christopher Nicholas Cattermole · trustee of 3 other charities
• Fiona Richmond
• Ian Ko
• Natasha Roberts
• Rossana Rocchini · trustee of 2 other charities
• Simonetta Di Benedetto

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

Operates in: Bromley · Croydon · Greenwich · Lambeth · Lewisham · Merton · Southwark · Sutton · Wandsworth

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 SPEAR HOUSING ASSOCIATION LIMITED.

• SPEAR HOUSING ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £4.6m
• SPIRAL SKILLS CIO income £567k
• SPIRAL - PREVENTING THE EFFECT OF BULLYING income £156k
• HOME SERVICES SUPPORT income £212k
• SPIRAL SUSSEX income £689k
• SPECTRA income £83k

Side by side with its peers

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