ST BASIL'S

Registered charity 1080154 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ST BASILS

St Basils works with young people to enable them to find and keep a home, to develop their confidence, skills and opportunities and to prevent homelessness.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that St Basil's reported a surplus of £286,000 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total unrestricted reserves standing at £5,989,000. The charity holds cash reserves equivalent to 80 days of expenditure, exceeding its strategic objective of covering at least two months of costs. The auditor confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified no material uncertainties regarding the entity'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 Beever and Struthers. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 2 (FY2024) → 4 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Marsha Blake — CEO (source)
• Vanessa Newey — RSI Lead (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.

Funders the charity credits

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

• Coventry Building Society — “Coventry Building Society and The Co-operative Bank Commit £2m to Tackle Youth Homelessness” (source page)
• The Co-operative Bank — “Coventry Building Society and The Co-operative Bank Commit £2m to Tackle Youth Homelessness” (source page)
• St Joseph — “A special thanks to our amazing 2026 Charity Partners: St Joseph” (source page)
• Capsticks — “And to our wonderful regular supporters: Capsticks” (source page)

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.0 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (88% 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: 3.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (12/05/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (21/08/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (02/06/2011) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Feizal Hajat OBEchair
• Ethan Jack Meddoms
• Helen Bates
• Jonathan Philip Wood
• Kelly Samantha Cassells
• Marsha Elaine Blake
• Nilanthi Neale
• Nimmi Patel
• Stephen Derrone James Chance
• The Very Reverend Matthew Thompson · trustee of 6 other charities

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

Operates in: Birmingham City · Coventry City · Sandwell · Solihull · Walsall · Warwickshire · Worcestershire

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

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BASINGSTOKE COMMUNITY CHURCHES.

• BASINGSTOKE COMMUNITY CHURCHES income £1.0m
• ST BASIL'S CHURCH, DEVON income £260k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF OLD BASING AND LYCHPIT income £136k
• THE FOUNDATION OF ST. BENEDICT OF NURSIA income £238k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST BARNABAS HATTERSLEY income £145k
• THE BASIC LIFE CHARITY income £350k

Side by side with its peers

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