LANCASTER & DISTRICT HOMELESS ACTION SERVICE LIMITED

Registered charity 1093016 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Housing and benefit support and advice. Breakfast and Lunch , telephone showers and laundry facilities. Training

Objects

(1) TO INFORM AND EDUCATE THE PUBLIC ON ISSUES CONCERNING HOUSING AND HOMELESSNESS.(2) THE RELIEF OF HOMELESS PERSONS IN NECESSITOUS CIRCUMSTANCES IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION OF ADVICE, FOOD, SHELTER AND ASSOCIATED AMENITIES.

Area of benefit: LANCASTER, LANCASHIRE

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £593,760, which exceeds the trustees' stated policy target of three months' operating costs. The charity reported a net expenditure for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £607,424 to £599,620, but maintains a strong cash position of £266,219.

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 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
• Paying staff
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Lancaster & District Homeless Action Service (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).

• The National Lottery Community Fund — “The National Lottery Community Fund (Big Lottery Fund) is a non-departmental public body responsible for distributing funds raised by the Na…” (source page)
• The Building Recovery in Communities (BRiC) Fund — “The Building Recovery in Communities (BRiC) Fund managed by Red Rose Recovery, is a community asset fund providing grants across the 12 dist…” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £330k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (04/02/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• MARK WHITEMANchair
• Anne Allison
• Anthony Westwell
• John Woodhead
• Pauline Howard
• Phil Moore
• Richard Taylor

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

Operates in: Lancashire

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).