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.

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ARE SOCIAL HOUSING 3.1 TO CARRY ON FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY THE BUSINESS OF PROVIDING HOUSES, HOSTELS OR ANY OTHER HOUSING INCLUDING SOCIAL HOUSING AND ANY ASSOCIATED AMENITIES, SERVICES OR ASSISTANCE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE AND OTHERS RESIDENT IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT WHO ARE HOMELESS OR IN NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS ON TERMS APPROPRIATE TO THEIR MEANS; EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING 3.2 TO RELIEVE POVERTY BY PROVIDING OR SECURING EDUCATION OR TRAINING FOR EMPLOYMENT FOR YOUNG PEOPLE AND OTHERS RESIDENT IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT AND BY ASSISTING THEM TO FIND EMPLOYMENT; 3.3 TO RELIEVE UNEMPLOYMENT FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AMONGST YOUNG PEOPLE AND OTHERS RESIDENT IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT IN SUCH WAYS AS THE BOARD THINKS FIT INCLUDING THE PROVISION OF ASSISTANCE TO FIND EMPLOYMENT; EDUCATION 3.4 TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND PROVIDE VOCATIONAL TRAINING TO YOUNG PEOPLE AND OTHERS IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT AND TO EDUCATE YOUNG PEOPLE THROUGH LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES OR THROUGH PROVIDING OR ARRANGING WORK EXPERIENCE; RELIEF OF POVERTY 3.5 TO RELIEVE POVERTY GENERALLY AMONG YOUNG PEOPLE AND OTHERS IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT; RECREATIONAL FACILITIES 3.6 TO PROVIDE RECREATIONAL AND LEISURE FACILITIES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE AND OTHERS IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT WHO NEED SUCH FACILITIES BECAUSE OF THEIR YOUTH, INFIRMITY, DISABILITY OR SOCIAL OR ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES, WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE; GENERAL 3.7 TO PROMOTE ANY OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSE, AND IN PARTICULAR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY.

Area of benefit: WEST MIDLANDS

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 · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Birmingham, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

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.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Homes England. 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
• 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
• 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.

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 (2,946 followers)

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 (3.7%) (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

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Known funders

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

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

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 YSS.

• YSS income £1.0m
• DAGNALL STREET BAPTIST CHURCH ST ALBANS income £213k
• PSS (UK) income £25.3m
• ST. PAUL'S, FURZEDOWN income £132k
• Belief in Action income £229k
• ST GABRIEL'S PARISH HOUSE income £300k

Side by side with its peers

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