TEIGN HOUSING

Registered charity 1112196 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Large scale voluntary transfer organisation that provides affordable housing services in south devon.

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

Latest income
£25.8m
Latest spending
£23.8m
Registered
2005
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Group made a deficit of £429,000 for the year, primarily due to a £2.7 million provision for fire safety remedial work. Despite this deficit, the organization holds unrestricted reserves of £69.2 million and maintains a strong borrowing capacity with significant undrawn facilities, indicating continued financial viability.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Largest income source: none
“Turnover represents rental income receivable from tenants and leaseholders, amortised capital grants, revenue grants from Local Authorities and Homes England, income from the sale of shared ownership properties and income from other service suppliers, excluding VAT.” — page 43
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Governance: Governance exception: Chair tenure exceeded maximum
“The Board is committed to and complies with the standards in the Code; however, there has been one exception this year. The Chair of the Board has served just over 9 years, which is over the prescribed nine-year maximum.” — page 5
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Trading subsidiary: Templer HomeBuild Limited
“The organisation has a wholly owned subsidiary, Templer HomeBuild Limited. Its purpose is to provide property maintenance and construction services to the social housing sector.” — page 5
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Beever and Struthers. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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Corporate structure

TEMPLER HOMEBUILD LIMITED — per its own Companies House accounts
  • Turnover: £3.6m
  • Profit before tax: £83k
  • Donated/gift-aided to the charity: £83k
  • Working capital loan from parent Teign Housing Ltd remains at £400,000.
“The directors of Templer HomeBuild Limited have agreed to make a gift aid payment in 2025 of £82,799 to the parent company, Teign Housing.”

Leadership, per the charity’s website

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.

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.

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

308 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (304 freehold); recorded price paid £12.5m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

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

Total income
£26.2m
Total spending
£23.8m
Reserves (reported)
£100.9m
Employees
187

Reported reserves equal ~50.9 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Devon

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£25.8m£23.8m
31/03/2024£24.8m£22.2m
31/03/2023£21.4m£19.0m
31/03/2022£20.7m£22.4m
31/03/2021£20.1m£16.8m

Common questions

Is TEIGN HOUSING financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the Group made a deficit of £429,000 for the year, primarily due to a £2.7 million provision for fire safety remedial work. Despite this deficit, the organization holds unrestricted reserves of £69.2 million and maintains a strong borrowing capacity with significant undrawn facilities, indicating continued financial viability. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Beever and Struthers.

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with TARGET HOUSING LIMITED.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
TEIGN HOUSING£25.8m—0unclear—no doubt
TARGET HOUSING LIMITED FY2025£18.6m——unclear—no doubt
TEIGNBRIDGE COMMUNITY AND VOLUNTARY SERVICES FY2025£1.1m—0above—no doubt
HAIG HOUSING TRUST FY2025£16.5m£80,001 - £90,000—above—no doubt
NORTHUMBERLAND AGED MINEWORKERS' HOMES ASSOCIATION FY2024£1.5m£60,001 - £70,000—below—no doubt
WALSALL HOUSING GROUP LIMITED FY2025£155.4m——unclear—no doubt

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