T.H.O.M.A.S (THOSE ON THE MARGINS OF A SOCIETY)

Registered charity 1114489 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity activities include drug and alcohol rehabilitation, residential support / dispersed housing support in the community and a drop-in-centre for homeless people. Equally, it provides social enterprise, supporting people back into employment. It also educates the public about addiction and social exclusion.

Objects

A TO RELIEVE POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS, IN PARTICULAR BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION AMONGST PERSONS SUFFERING AS A RESULT OF DRUG AND ALCOHOL ABUSE AND HOUSING NEED, THROUGH THE PROVISION OF PRACTICAL ASSISTANCE AND ADVICE OF ALL KINDS INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, REHABILITATION AND RESETTLEMENT AND ACCOMMODATION TO THE HOMELESS AND EDUCATIONAL, LEGAL AND MEDICAL ADVICE, COUNSELLING AND ASSISTANCE.B TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IN THE EFFECTS OF DRUG AND ALCOHOL ABUSE AND HOUSING NEED.C TO PURSUE ANY OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSE WHICH THE TRUSTEES OF THE CHARITY THINK FIT TO PURSUE IN CONJUNCTION WITH ANY OF THE CHARITABLE PURPOSES MENTIONED ABOVE.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE, NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS.

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 Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £92,094 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total incoming resources of £1,778,912 against expenditure of £1,686,818. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £1,430,964, which is below the stated policy target of six months of operating expenditure. The charity remains heavily reliant on public sector contracts for its principal funding.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Smith & Goulding Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission. 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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05577388

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Father James McCartney — Founder (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.

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.

• MALLEY, Neil — director, appointed 28/10/2021on trustee list
• FULLALOVE, Margaret — director, appointed 07/01/2019on trustee list
• JAMESON, Debra — director, appointed 07/01/2019on trustee list
• SKARIA, Jacob, Dr — director, appointed 04/10/2012on trustee list
• PORTER, Christopher John — director, appointed 20/07/2010on trustee list
• MALOWANA-MURPHY, John Michael — director, appointed 28/09/2005on trustee list
• MCCARTNEY, James Patrick, Reverend — secretary, appointed 28/09/2005

Official officers record.

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 £363k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: T.H.O.M.A.S. (Those On The Margins Of A Society) — Registered, 4 registered locations, 2 regulated activities, last inspected 13/06/2023.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~5.6 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (98% 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Care Quality Commission ratings

CQC inspection ratings for services run by a provider matching this charity’s name (matched by name; verify provider identity on CQC’s site).

• T.H.O.M.A.S: Requires improvement (20/11/2025) · CQC record
• THOMAS Bolton: Good (26/07/2023) · CQC record
• T H O M A S Drug & Alcohol Rehabilitation Unit: Good (19/07/2022) · CQC record
• Scovell Street, Salford: Good (11/02/2022) · CQC record

Trustees · trustee networks

• Deborah Jameson
• Dr JACOB SKARIA
• Margaret Fullalove
• Neil Malley

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

Operates in: Blackburn With Darwen · Bolton · Lancashire · Salford City · Trafford

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE SOCIETY OF ST JAMES.

• THE SOCIETY OF ST JAMES income £17.9m
• THE PEOPLE'S RECOVERY PROJECT income £213k
• THE THOMAS BRINGTON FOUNDATION income £125k
• TEEN CHALLENGE LONDON income £1.0m
• BOSCO SOCIETY LTD income £1.1m
• MENS ACCOMMODATION AND SUPPORT income £1.1m

Side by side with its peers

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