ABIGAIL HOUSING

Registered charity 1120729 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Abigail Housing provides supported housing for those at the end of the asylum process.

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS (THE OBJECTS) ARE:(1) TO RELIEVE FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AMONGST THOSE SEEKING ASYLUM, THOSE GRANTED REFUGEE STATUS, OTHER VULNERABLE MIGRANTS AND THEIR DEPENDANTS WHO ARE DESTITUTE AND LIVING TEMPORARILY OR PERMANENTLY IN THE YORKSHIRE AND HUMBER REGION, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE PROVISION OF TEMPORARY ACCOMMODATION, ADVICE, INFORMATION SUPPORT AND ADVOCACY(2) SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THOSE SEEKING ASYLUM, THOSE GRANTED REFUGEE STATUS, OTHER VULNERABLE MIGRANTS AND THEIR DEPENDANTS WHO ARE DESTITUTE IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL DETERMINE.

Area of benefit: IN THE YORKSHIRE AND HUMBER REGION.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Leeds, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net expenditure of £56,566 for the year, resulting in free reserves of £40,868. This figure is explicitly noted as being below the charity's stated lower reserves limit of £104,750. The trustees attribute this shortfall to ongoing environmental challenges and are implementing cost management and fundraising measures to rebuild reserves.

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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (3 freehold); recorded price paid £168k. 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 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.9 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (69% 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Adam Daniel Spencer Clarkchair
• Abdelgani Hussein
• Daniel Howitt
• Jo Gibson
• Kathleen Anne Bride Commons · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Bradford City · Leeds City

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

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

• ABILITY HOUSING ASSOCIATION income £11.0m
• IPSWICH HOUSING ACTION GROUP LIMITED income £968k
• ASYLUM AID income £1.7m
• ASYLUM AND REFUGEE COMMUNITY, BLACKBURN income £243k
• HAIG HOUSING TRUST income £16.5m
• CROYDON AFFORDABLE HOUSING income £82k

Side by side with its peers

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