CARDINAL HUME CENTRE

Registered charity 1090836 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Centre supports homeless young people and badly housed families, as well as local people with little or no income. We enable people to gain the skills they need to break out of poverty and build better lives.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £258,000 for the year ended 31 March 2026, resulting in a reduction of total funds to £4.90 million. The trustees maintain that the charity remains in a strong and resilient financial position with healthy cash balances and unrestricted reserves of £1.25 million, which are within the stated policy target of four to six months of unrestricted expenditure. The deficit was attributed to deliberate strategic investment in service expansion and essential building repairs.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Godfrey Wilson Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Cardinal Hume Centre wins in national homelessness Excellence Awards cbcew.org.uk · 11/06/2026

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04333875

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Cardinal Hume Centre (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• George O'Neill — Chief Executive (source)
• Mark Hoban — Chair (source)
• Rachel Case — Director (source)
• Joanne Wheatley — Director (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).

• Landsec — “Landsec is proud to continue our long-standing support of the Cardinal Hume Centre. The charity’s practical and compassionate approach is pr…” (source page)
• Howard de Walden Estate — “The Centre's focus on providing pathways into housing, education and employment strongly aligns with our community investment priorities. It…” (source page)
• London Heritage Quarter — “Supporting the Cardinal Hume Centre reflects our belief that investing in young people, children and families is key to a thriving community…” (source page)
• Landaid — “Ending youth homelessness only happens when we back the charities doing the hard work on the ground. That’s why our partnership with Cardina…” (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.

• BRADY, Vincent Gerard, Monsignor — director, appointed 03/12/2025on trustee list
• BINNS, Simon Ian — director, appointed 03/12/2025on trustee list
• LLOYD, Humphrey Alexander — director, appointed 11/12/2024on trustee list
• HOBAN, Mark Gerard — director, appointed 01/01/2024on trustee list
• HARMER, Clea Elizabeth — director, appointed 07/12/2023on trustee list
• MCGUIRE, Victoria Kirsten — director, appointed 07/12/2023on trustee list
• ENRIGHT, Simon Lawrence Wilfred — director, appointed 07/12/2023on trustee list
• FLANAGAN, Samanthi — director, appointed 07/12/2022on trustee list
• WALSH, Timothy John, Dr — director, appointed 05/12/2019on trustee list
• DORAN, Mark John — director, appointed 05/12/2019on trustee list
• ETHERINGTON, Rebekah — director, appointed 05/12/2019on trustee list
• O'NEILL, George — secretary, appointed 29/04/2021

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~3.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 19.7% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (16/06/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Mark Gerard Hobanchair
• Clea Elizabeth Harmer
• Dr Timothy Walsh
• Humphrey Alexander Lloyd · trustee of 2 other charities
• Mark Doran
• Monsignor Vincent Gerard Brady · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rebekah Etherington
• Samanthi Flanagan
• Simon Ian Binns
• Simon Lawrence Wilfrid Enright
• Victoria McGuire

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 Stay Charity.

• Stay Charity income £2.2m
• HOUSING THE HOMELESS CENTRAL FUND income £80k
• HUMBERCARE LIMITED income £11.6m
• HOUSING JUSTICE income £3.0m
• EMMAUS GLOUCESTERSHIRE income £1.2m
• EMMANUEL HOUSE SUPPORT CENTRE income £1.0m

Side by side with its peers

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