Gap Supported Housing

Registered charity 1138615 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as STOPGAP SUPPORTED HOUSING

To support vulnurable adults both homeless and those threatened by homelessness. We provide short term supported accommodation for up to seven adults. This service provides 24 hour support and offers the opportunity for individuals to look at the issues that contributed to their homelessness. We deliver basic living skills and employability training and assist in finding long term accommodation.

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE COMPANY SHALL BE TO SUPPORT VULNERABLE ADULTS BOTH THOSE WHO ARE HOMELESS AND THOSE WHO MAY BE THREATENED WITH HOMELESSNESS, BY THE PROVISION OF TEMPORARY ACCOMMODATION, SUPPORTED HOUSING, SUPPORT IN THEIR OWN HOME OR BY SUCH OTHER SERVICES CALCULATED TO RELIEVE THEIR NEEDS.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED IN PRACTICE NORTHUMBERLAND

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

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Northumberland, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net expenditure of £49,499 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total unrestricted funds from £202,653 to £185,881. Despite this deficit, the Trustees maintain that adequate financial provision is in place to ensure the continuation of service delivery and have confirmed the accounts are prepared on a going concern basis. The charity's reserves policy targets maintaining unrestricted funds equivalent to three to six months of expenditure, a level the Trustees state has been maintained throughout the year.

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
• 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 31/03/2022 (received 31/03/2023, 59 days after the 31/01/2023 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.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (28/05/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ALLAN BERTRAM
• CHRISTOPHER HENRY BRINTON
• Darren William Thompson
• Jane Scott
• Joanne Costello
• Keda Norman · trustee of 2 other charities
• ROSEMARY EILEEN THEOBALDS · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Northumberland

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HOPE HOUSING, TRAINING AND SUPPORT LIMITED.

• HOPE HOUSING, TRAINING AND SUPPORT LIMITED income £1.7m
• SAFE AND SOUND HOMES income £1.1m
• HOPE COMMUNITY SERVICES income £425k
• GASPED income £431k
• FURNESS HOMELESS SUPPORT GROUP income £285k
• MENS ACCOMMODATION AND SUPPORT income £1.1m

Side by side with its peers

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