EMMAUS NORFOLK AND WAVENEY
Registered charity 1136584 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as EMMAUS NORWICH
The Emmaus Norwich community offers a home and meaningful work to 25 men and women, many of whom have been homeless. Emmaus Norwich is a social enterprise and everyone living in the community signs off benefits to work within their ability in the community's charitable business.
Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that total unrestricted income reduced by 6.5% to £903,896, while total expenditure increased by 9% to £1,116,645, resulting in a net outgoing from unrestricted funds before transfers of £110,164. Per the trustees' report, the charity aims to balance its day-to-day operating budget over the medium-term, noting that year-to-year fluctuations occur when investing to grow, and that early signs of improvement were seen in the first half of the subsequent year due to increased social enterprise activity.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Reserves position: below the charity's own stated reserves policy (held: £1.5m; policy: three months of operating expenditure)
“The investment in the charity during 2024/25 meant that our reserves policy was not met at the end of the year, partly because the increase in our size meant that the necessary reserve levels also grew.” — page 20
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Donation from related party
“Donations of £1,000 we received from The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St Stephen, a charity in which David Daynes (Trustee) is a trustee of.” — page 43
“A payment for the provision of services totaling £788 was paid to Andrew Watts, brother of Neil Watts (Trustee) during the year.” — page 43
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Payment for services to trustee-connected business
“Donations of £1,000 we received from The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St Stephen, a charity in which David Daynes (Trustee) is a trustee of.” — page 43
“A payment for the provision of services totaling £788 was paid to Andrew Watts, brother of Neil Watts (Trustee) during the year.” — page 43
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts audited by Sumer Auditco Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.
Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Emmaus Norfolk & Waveney (matched by registered charity number).
Leadership, per the charity’s website
- Cecile — Chief Executive (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.
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.
Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)
Cost of raising funds
£24k
Reported reserves equal ~14.3 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (67% 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: 2.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).
- Simon Theobaldchair
- Christopher John Brown
- Debbie Hilton
- Julian Anthony Foster
- Mary Cubitt
- PETER CHARLES COE
- Pirry Keohane
- Rebecca White
- Stephen Johnson
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Norfolk · Suffolk
Income and spending
Common questions
Is EMMAUS NORFOLK AND WAVENEY financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that total unrestricted income reduced by 6.5% to £903,896, while total expenditure increased by 9% to £1,116,645, resulting in a net outgoing from unrestricted funds before transfers of £110,164. Per the trustees' report, the charity aims to balance its day-to-day operating budget over the medium-term, noting that year-to-year fluctuations occur when investing to grow, and that early signs of improvement were seen in the first half of the subsequent year due to increased social enterprise activity. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Sumer Auditco Limited.
Who funds EMMAUS NORFOLK AND WAVENEY?
Funders whose own accounts filings name EMMAUS NORFOLK AND WAVENEY as a grant recipient include EMMAUS U.K..
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