GUILDFORD ACTION FOR COMMUNITY CARE

Registered charity 1078721 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as GUILDFORD ACTION

Guildford Action supports homeless Individuals as well as isolated families. Our mission is to ?Enhance the lives of all those we come into contact with?. The projects are The Guildford Action Day Service (homelessness) and The GAF (Guildford Action for Families) support service. We aim to meet basic needs, maximise potential through group work, individual casework, signposting and outreach.

Objects

FOR THE RELIEF OF PEOPLE ON LOW INCOME IN THE GUILDFORD AREA, WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS, BY THE PROVISION OF SERVICES FOR SUCH PEOPLE.

Area of benefit: GUILDFORD AREA.

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 Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Guildford, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net income of £115,548 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total funds of £487,769. The trustees report a strong balance sheet with reserves significantly in excess of their stated policy target of six months' expenditure. The independent auditors confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified 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 audited by Bennewith 2018 Limited. 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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2021 (received 17/03/2022, 45 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03767533

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

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Guildford Borough Council — “40 % of our funding comes from our statutory partners, including Guildford Brough council, Surrey County Council and Public Health.” (source page)
• Surrey County Council — “40 % of our funding comes from our statutory partners, including Guildford Brough council, Surrey County Council and Public Health.” (source page)
• Public Health — “40 % of our funding comes from our statutory partners, including Guildford Brough council, Surrey County Council and Public Health.” (source page)

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.

• NICHOL, Richard Jonathan — director, appointed 08/01/2026on trustee list
• CREESE, Amanda — director, appointed 11/12/2019on trustee list
• JOHNSON, Matthew John Alexander — director, appointed 19/03/2014on trustee list
• ROBINSON, Emma — director, appointed 04/09/2013on trustee list
• NICHOL, Richard — secretary, appointed 08/01/2026

Official officers record.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (74% 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Amanda Creese · trustee of 1 other charity
• Emma Robinson
• Matthew Johnson
• Richard Nichol

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

Operates in: Surrey

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Guildford Food Bank.

• Guildford Food Bank income £179k
• HOMELESS ACTION income £3.8m
• GATEWAY ACTION (SALFORD) income £10k
• ACTION HOMELESS (LEICESTER) LIMITED income £5.0m
• GARFORTH COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £49k
• ACTION HOUSING AND SUPPORT LIMITED income £6.9m

Side by side with its peers

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