Your Place (London) Limited

Registered charity 1147794 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ANCHOR HOUSE, CARITAS - ANCHOR HOUSE, Your Place

Your Place (London) Limited provides a home and support for people experiencing homelessness in London. We work collaboratively with residents to build a better future for themselves, through the provision of personalised support, education and life skills opportunities. Our goal for all residents is to move on from homelessness for good.

Objects

THE CHARITY'S CHARITABLE OBJECTS (THE OBJECTS) ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING: TO FURTHER THE GENERAL CHARITABLE WORKS OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH BY PROVIDING SERVICES AND FACILITIES FOR THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND SUFFERING, THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE PROMOTION OF SOCIAL JUSTICE, THE PROVISION OF RESIDENTIAL ACCOMMODATION INCLUDING SOCIAL HOUSING AND OTHER CHARITABLE ACTS WHICH PROMOTE THE DEVELOPMENT OF ALL INDIVIDUALS AND COMMUNITIES IN NEED FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT OF PEOPLE OF ALL FAITHS AND NONE. TO THIS END THE CHARITY'S ACTIVITIES WILL BE DIRECTED TOWARDS HOMELESS PEOPLE, SEAFARERS, FORMER PRISONERS, FAMILIES AND CHILDREN, PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES AND COMMUNITIES AND GROUPS IN NEED IN ORDER TO RE-ESTABLISH THEMSELVES SPIRITUALLY AND SOCIALLY. NOTHING IN THE ARTICLES SHALL AUTHORISE AN APPLICATION OF THE PROPERTY OF THE CHARITY FOR PURPOSES WHICH ARE NOT CHARITABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 7 OF THE CHARITIES AND TRUSTEE INVESTMENT (SCOTLAND) ACT 2005 AND/OR SECTION 2 OF THE CHARITIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 2008.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED.

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 · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Newham, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £2,371,490 for the year, with unrestricted reserves standing at £12,192,851. The trustees have determined that the appropriate level of reserves required is in the range of £1.2 million to £1.5 million, meaning current free reserves significantly exceed this policy target. The auditor confirmed that the financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Homes England. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Your Place (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

8 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (8 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 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (65% 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: 4.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anil Kumar Sharma
• Anna Beach
• Catherine Mary Kirkbride
• Edward Sparrow
• Emer Christina Delaney
• Graeme Alexander McLean
• John Giesen · trustee of 1 other charity
• Joseph Ogundemuren · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kevin Maxwell MBE
• Laura Elizabeth Curtis
• MARY TOLUWALOPE OGUNSAKIN
• Rose Elizabeth Soffel

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with The Places Foundation.

• The Places Foundation income £996k
• SOMEWHERE TO GO LIMITED income £266k
• STREETS OF LONDON income £482k
• HARROGATE HOMELESS PROJECT LTD income £1.2m
• LONDON PLAY income £148k
• SAFER LONDON income £3.4m

Side by side with its peers

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