HORSHAM MATTERS LIMITED

Registered charity 1116253 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Relief, support and care to individuals suffering from mental, emotional or physical need. Support to those experiencing poverty including fuel, food, housing and financial.

Objects

• The prevention or relief of poverty, through the provision of goods, services and facilities to those experiencing hardship regardless of their faith• The relief of those in need by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship of other disadvantage regardless of their faith• The advancement of the Christian religion by providing resources that enable churches and individual Christians to work together and by any other appropriate means

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, WEST SUSSEX.

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Horsham, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with free unrestricted reserves of £541,876, which is above the stated policy target of six months of operating costs. The trustees anticipate a deficit in the upcoming budget due to the end of a specific grant, but confirm that resources are adequate to cover ongoing operational expenses for the next 12 months.

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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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 05796693 · Financial health read from its filings
• Trading subsidiary: HORSHAM MATTERS TRADING LIMITED Companies House 07100984 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Horsham Matters Ltd (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• PESTELL, James — director, appointed 18/06/2024on trustee list
• WATSON, Carolyn Vezetque — director, appointed 18/06/2024on trustee list
• BARBER, Nicola Lynne — director, appointed 09/05/2023on trustee list
• EMERY, Linda Jane — director, appointed 28/06/2021on trustee list
• PITT, Helen Elizabeth — director, appointed 09/02/2021on trustee list
• MURRAY, Thomas Martin, Rev — director, appointed 19/07/2011on trustee list

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

Reported reserves equal ~9.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (44% 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: 35.3% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (12/07/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Linda Jane Emerychair
• Carolyn Watson
• Helen Pitt
• James Pestell
• Nicola Barber
• Rev THOMAS MURRAY

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

Operates in: West Sussex

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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 PEOPLE MATTER TRUST.

• PEOPLE MATTER TRUST income £452k
• AFTERMATH SUPPORT LIMITED income £138k
• MURRAY HALL COMMUNITY TRUST LIMITED income £2.7m
• MENTAL HEALTH MATTERS income £28.2m
• MILLES CHARITABLE FOUNDATION LIMITED income £587k
• INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN RELIEF income £385k

Side by side with its peers

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