BEN'S CENTRE FOR VULNERABLE PEOPLE (SHEFFIELD)

Registered charity 1087606 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BEN'S PLACE

StatementA lifeline and place of sanctuary for the sufferers of addiction and street culture.Our missionTo provide a safe space and an open hand to those who suffer through substance misuse and its barriers.Our visionTo give hope and opportunity to those who have neither.Our core valuesInclusion, opportunity, and motivation to live unhindered by trauma and substance dependency.

Objects

To relieve poverty, sickness and distress of persons suffering from addiction and street culture in the Sheffield area in particular by the provision of a day centre offering advice, food, clothing and washing facilities

Area of benefit: SHEFFIELD

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Sheffield, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves were £193,881 at year-end, which is above the trustees' policy target of £139,000 to £185,000. However, the charity reported a net deficit of £95,761 for the year, driven by the end of lottery funding and reliance on reserves to absorb the shortfall. The trustees note that a reserves audit and ring-fencing for building repairs are expected to bring reserves back within the target range.

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 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: going-concern doubt noted (FY2024) → no going-concern doubt (FY2025).

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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03896342

Funders the charity credits

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

• The National Lotteries — “Ben’s cENTRE IS GRATEFUL TO THE FOLLOWING ORGANISATIONS FOR PROVIDING US WITH CORE FUNDING… The National Lotteries” (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.

• HANSON, Christopher James — director, appointed 28/01/2026on trustee list
• BALL, Andrew James — director, appointed 08/01/2026on trustee list
• ROUSSEAU, Sarah — director, appointed 06/11/2025on trustee list
• HANCOCK, Courtney — director, appointed 06/11/2025on trustee list
• WILSON, Brian — director, appointed 02/03/2023on trustee list
• WILLIAMS, Liz — director, appointed 01/11/2019not on trustee list
• SHERMAN, Ian — director, appointed 01/06/2000on trustee list
• WILSON, Brian — secretary, appointed 02/03/2023

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.

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (12/01/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alan Brailey
• Brian Wilson · trustee of 2 other charities
• Christopher James Hanson
• Courtney Hancock
• Elizabeth Williams
• IAN SHERMAN
• Joanne Louise Peach
• Sarah Rousseau

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

Operates in: Sheffield City

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 ASSIST SHEFFIELD.

• ASSIST SHEFFIELD income £787k
• VOLUNTARY SECTOR CENTRES income £1.7m
• THE SHEFFIELD CATS SHELTER income £961k
• THE BENJAMIN FOUNDATION income £8.7m
• DISABILITY SHEFFIELD CENTRE FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING LIMITED income £994k
• THE WELCOME CENTRE (HUDDERSFIELD) income £900k

Side by side with its peers

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