FREEDOM COMMUNITY ALLIANCE LIMITED

Registered charity 1125960 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FREEDOM COMMUNITY ALLIANCE, FREEDOM SOCIAL PROJECTS

Freedom Community Alliance Ltd provides a range of services to homeless, vulnerable and disadvantaged individuals. Current activities include:-Provision of an open access Day Centre & multi agency hubA range of supported accommodation for men and women.Support Services and advocacy for vulnerable people. Gym facilities promoting health & Wellbeing.Temp accommodation rough sleeper pods

Objects

A TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE;B TO RELIEVE PERSONS WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP, OR SICKNESS AND TO RELIEVE THE DISTRESS CAUSED THEREBY IN SUCH PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM, IN PARTICULAR NORTH DEVON, INCLUDING BUT NOT BY WAY OF LIMITATION TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE HOMELESS, IN RECOVERY FROM DRUG AND/OR ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE THROUGH THE PROVISION OF SAFE AND SECURE ACCOMMODATION AND REHABILITATION PROGRAMMES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT;C TO FURTHER EDUCATION IN SUCH PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM, IN PARTICULAR NORTH DEVON, INCLUDING BUT NOT BY WAY OF LIMITATION THROUGH THE PROVISION OF TRAINING IN LIFE SKILLS, BASIC LITERACY AND NUMERACY AND OTHER SUCH VOCATIONAL OR ADULT EDUCATION AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FITTHE ABOVE OBJECTS ARE CARRIED OUT IN ACCORDANCE WITH CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLE WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF RACE, SEX, POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINION AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT

Area of benefit: UNITED KINGDOM, IN PARTICULAR NORTH DEVON

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

Registered contact address: North Devon, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income increased to £1,260,566 from £1,058,258 in the prior year, with unrestricted reserves rising to £86,715. The charity holds a designated reserves fund of £320,000, which the trustees state represents six months of cover for general running costs. The auditor confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Westcotts (SW) LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "below" (FY2024) to "above" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed 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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• 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

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 06628989

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Freedom Community Alliance (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Phillip Noall — CEO (source)
• David Hunt — Chair (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.

• HALPIN, David — director, appointed 19/06/2023on trustee list
• CLAPP, David George — director, appointed 07/12/2022on trustee list
• HANSON, Jane Fiona — director, appointed 07/12/2022on trustee list
• HUNT, David — director, appointed 07/12/2022on trustee list
• AYRTON, Peter — director, appointed 23/06/2020on trustee list
• JONES, Carole Jeanne — director, appointed 23/06/2020on trustee list

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 £215k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~9.1 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (64% 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: 1.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (13/04/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (29/01/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (11/11/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Huntchair
• CAROLE JEANNE JONES
• David George Clapp
• David Halpin
• Jane Hanson
• Peter Ayrton · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Devon

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with F.A.N COMMUNITY ALLIANCE.

• F.A.N COMMUNITY ALLIANCE income £137k
• COMMUNITY CARE OPTIONS income £705k
• BEDWELL COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £202k
• LLAMAU LIMITED income £28.4m
• FREEDOM CENTRE income £122k
• AUDLEM AND DISTRICT COMMUNITY ACTION income £84k

Side by side with its peers

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