SANCTUS

Registered charity 1150313 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

PROVIDES FOOD, SHELTER AND AMENITIES TO THE HOMELESS AND VULNERABLE IN CHELMSFORD, ESSEX, ENGLAND. THE CHARITY PRIMARILY OPERATES THE SANCTUS CAFE, FOR THE HOMELESS AND THOSE IN NEED IN THE CENTRE OF CHELMSFORD THE CAFE IS AN ACCESS POINT FOR THE SANCTUS HUB FOR ADVOCACY, SUPPORT, COUNSELLING AND SERVICES FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING.

Objects

(1)RELIEF OF POVERTY WITH FOOD PROVISION OF FOOD FOR THE HOMELESS, DESTITUTE OR THOSE FALLEN ON HARD TIMES.(2)RELIEF OF POVERTY WITH SERVICES AND PROGRAMMES FOR REHABILITATION AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR THE HOMELESS, DESTITUTE AND THOSE FALLEN ON HARD TIMES.(3)RELIEF OF POVERTY THROUGH BUILDING CONFIDENCE, ESTEEM AND SKILLS FOR PREPARATION FOR WORK AND/OR REINTEGRATION INTO SOCIETY OF THE HOMELESS, DESTITUTE AND THOSE FALLEN ON HARD TIMES.(4)RELIEF OF POVERTY THROUGH BUILDING A DAY CENTRE AND OR REFUGE AND WORKSHOP SPACE FOR THE SELF IMPROVEMENT OF THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN KNOCKED BY LIFE AND WOULD LIKE TO BETTER THEMSELVES AND START TO REENGAGE WITH SOCIETY.(5)RELIEF OF POVERTY THROUGH THE DEVELOPMENT OF CRAFT, PRODUCTION AND LABOURING SERVICES FOR THE HOMELESS, DESTITUTE AND THOSE FALLEN ON HARD TIMES.

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

Registered contact address: Chelmsford, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted reserves of £126,830 at the end of the year, which is below its stated policy target of two months' funds. Despite this, the trustees confirm that budgeted income and expenditure are sufficient for the charity to continue as a going concern with no material uncertainties.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 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
• 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 31/12/2025 (received 02/11/2026, 2 days after the 31/10/2026 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Sanctus Homeless Charity (matched by registered charity number).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (19/05/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Diane Rigg · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Tanvi Bagtharia · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nigel David Simon Hardy · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Anthony Robinson · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Essex

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SANKTUS.

• SANKTUS income £55k
• CHICHESTER HEART FOR HOMELESS income £121k
• Emmaus Hertfordshire income £1.3m
• HOMELESS PEOPLE AND THE OXFORD CHURCHES(GATEHOUSE) income £429k
• EMMAUS SHEFFIELD income £659k
• HOMELESS HAMPERS income £23k

Side by side with its peers

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