ACCESS COMMUNITY TRUST

Registered charity 1135640 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ST JOHNS HOUSING TRUST

To reduce social exclusion, vulnerability and homelessness by providing accommodation, education/training and practical support tailored to the individual need.

Objects

TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE COMMUNITY BENEFIT BY PREVENTINGPEOPLE FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THOSEPEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTOSOCIETY.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, LOCAL

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 Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: East Suffolk, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a total deficit of £274,469, reducing unrestricted funds to £138,735 and resulting in negative free reserves of £1,399,890. The auditor has identified a material uncertainty regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern due to these deficits and net current liabilities. The trustees assert that actions taken to restructure costs and dispose of assets will secure the charity's future, but the auditor notes these results have yet to be seen.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Ensors. Discloses 3 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management 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.

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 31/03/2024 (received 16/06/2025, 136 days after the 31/01/2025 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.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• In Depth: Latest on lawsuits over IG access, Community Trust, and redistricting plan foxbaltimore.com · 20/08/2026
• Access Community Trust charity user feels 'betrayed' after closure bbc.co.uk · 28/02/2026
• Closure of Access Community Trust eastsuffolk.gov.uk · 25/02/2026
• Third Sector Awards: Charity Chief Executive – Emma Ratzer, MBE Access Community Trust thirdsector.co.uk · 08/10/2020
• How historic Lowestoft-based charity Access Community Trust is looking to the future edp24.co.uk · 05/01/2016
• Access Community Trust welcomes its first Lowestoft tenants edp24.co.uk · 28/12/2014

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Access Community Trust UK (matched by registered charity number).

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

Property (HM Land Registry)

11 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (3 freehold); recorded price paid £290k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.4 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (14/05/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (03/04/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (20/03/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Bradley Adnamschair
• Charlotte Rooke
• DAVID ELLIS
• Duncan Charles Read
• HOWARD TIDMAN

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

Operates in: Norfolk · Suffolk

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SUPPORTING COMMUNITIES.

• SUPPORTING COMMUNITIES income £176k
• COMMUNITY ACCOMMODATION GROUP income £5.0m
• QUEDGELEY COMMUNITY TRUST income £93k
• COMMUNITY CONNEX LTD. income £2.5m
• THE COMMUNITY OF GRACE income £42k
• THE ACCESS PROJECT income £3.1m

Side by side with its peers

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