EMMAUS HASTINGS AND ROTHER

Registered charity 1123493 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Emmaus is a secular charity providing a home, work & training for homeless or socially excluded people through social enterprise businesses trading in donated furniture & household goods. Residents may remain with Emmaus for as long as they need and are then helped to find jobs & housing. EHR can accommodate 23 residents and employs a small staff team to support residents & manage the business.

Objects

THE OBJECTS ("THE OBJECTS") OF THE CHARITY SHALL BE THE ALLEVIATION AND RELIEF OF POVERTY, HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS ARISING THEREFROM, IN CONFORMANCE WITH THE PRINCIPLES OF THE EMMAUS MOVEMENT AS PUBLISHED FROM TIME TO TIME BY EMMAUS UK, TO THOSE IN NEED WITHOUT DISTINCTION.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED, IN PRACTICE HASTINGS AND ROTHER.

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure deficit of £76,204 for the year ended 30 June 2025, driven by charitable activities exceeding income. Despite this deficit, the charity maintains a strong balance sheet with unrestricted funds of £761,850, which exceeds its stated reserves policy target of three months' operating costs. The trustees confirm that resources are adequate to continue as a going concern with no material uncertainties identified.

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.

• 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
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 30/06/2023 (received 05/06/2024, 36 days after the 30/04/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Arnold Clark Community Fund — “We are also incredibly grateful to the support of many amazing trusts and foundations, who have helped us build and transform our community …” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). 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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~18.4 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (90% 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 (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Tania Janis Adamschair
• Alan David Pink FCA CTA
• DAVID JOHN COOPER
• Gill Adamson
• Graeme David Williams · trustee of 1 other charity
• Paul Antony Sykes
• Roseanna Webster
• Siobhan Sheridan CBE
• Suzanne Foreman
• THALIA RHIANNON WILMOT GRIFFITHS

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

Operates in: East Sussex

Income and spending

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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).

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 EMMAUS CAMBRIDGE.

• EMMAUS CAMBRIDGE income £2.0m
• EMMAUS HAMPSHIRE income £997k
• EMMAUS LEICESTERSHIRE AND RUTLAND income £454k
• EMMAUS SALFORD income £453k
• EMMAUS HULL & EAST RIDING income £1.1m
• EMMAUS SOUTH LAMBETH COMMUNITY income £1.8m

Side by side with its peers

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