SELWOOD HOUSING SOCIETY LIMITED

Registered charity 1141124 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The principal activities of Selwood Housing are the provision of social housing, the letting, management and maintenance of dwellings for people in housing need and the provision of support services in Wiltshire and Somerset. The purpose of Selwood Housing is to develop, manage and maintain quality affordable housing and provide support services for the benefit of people in housing need.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the group reported a surplus of £7.4m for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total turnover increasing to £56.9m. Per the trustees' report, the charity maintains a strong financial position with unrestricted reserves of £166.8m and a pension scheme showing a net asset surplus, although the asset is capped at nil for accounting purposes due to lack of recoverability rights.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Beever and Struthers. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Inspection and regulatory ratings

Matched to this charity by name; verify provider identity on the regulator’s site.

• Regulator of Social Housing — Selwood Housing Society Limited: governance G1 viability V2 consumer - (-)

Property (HM Land Registry)

1,064 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1054 freehold); recorded price paid £57.3m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~67.0 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (94% 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 (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• David William Hobdey · trustee of 1 other charity
• Hannah Laura Jones
• Koo Chai Young Li Mow Ching
• Maureen Janet Robinson
• Paul BRYAN
• Philip Whitehead
• Richard Yates
• Samuel James Whatley
• Stella Jane Shepherd

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

Operates in: Bath And North East Somerset · Somerset · Wiltshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE SELWOOD CHARITABLE TRUST.

• THE SELWOOD CHARITABLE TRUST income £193k
• SW9 COMMUNITY HOUSING income £13.1m
• WORDSLEY HOUSING SOCIETY income £1.2m
• WITTON LODGE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £4.0m
• SALISBURY TRUST FOR THE HOMELESS LTD income £406k
• WOODLEY SANDFORD AND CHARVIL CHARITABLE TRUST income £166k

Side by side with its peers

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