GEORGE HOUSE TRUST

Registered charity 1143138 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

George House Trust provides services to people living with HIV, which enable them to feel empowered and better able to live healthily with HIV. We raise awareness of HIV and encourage all sexually active people in the North West to know their HIV status. We challenge HIV stigma and discrimination and promote a better understanding of HIV.

Objects

• The relief of need of people living with, and affected by, HIV by the provision of responsive and relevant services;• To advance the education of the general public in all areas relating to HIV.

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 · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £79,179 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £1,202,492 and total expenditure of £1,281,671. Per the trustees' report, free unrestricted reserves of £319,033 are below the stated optimum target of £476,000, although the charity maintains a total net asset position of £1,447,333.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Barlow Andrews LLP. 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — George House Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold); recorded price paid £210k. 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 ~7.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (82% 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: 6.9% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (11/08/2011) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Sloanchair
• David Lockhart
• Dr Michelle Croston · trustee of 1 other charity
• John Gerald Hutton
• John Lucas · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kieran Stuart Yates
• NICHOLAS ANTHONY WILLIAMS · trustee of 1 other charity
• Paul Lundbeck
• Vanessa Gahagan

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

Operates in: Bolton · Bury · Manchester City · Oldham · Rochdale · Salford City · Stockport · Tameside · Trafford · Wigan

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ST GEORGE'S HOUSE CHARITY.

• ST GEORGE'S HOUSE CHARITY income £274k
• NATIONAL AIDS TRUST income £1.1m
• ST. GEORGE'S HOUSE TRUST (WINDSOR CASTLE) income £1.3m
• THE TERRENCE HIGGINS TRUST income £12.8m
• THE GEORGE FAMILY FOUNDATION income £175k
• ST GEORGE'S HOSPITAL CHARITY income £3.0m

Side by side with its peers

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