Encompass

Registered charity 1154210 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as EAST NORTHANTS COMMUNITY SERVICES, EAST NORTHANTS FAITH GROUP

Encompass provides support, resources and advice to those who are facing poverty, homelessness and addiction. We do this through the provision of accommodation services, rehabilitation accommodation, foodbanks and a day centre.

Objects

1. THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED, BY REASON OF YOUTH, AGE, ILL-HEALTH, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE THROUGH THE PROVISION OF ACCOMMODATION AND ASSOCIATED SERVICES TO THOSE FACING HOMELESSNESS AND ADDICTION; FOOD BANKS AND SUPPORT FOR THOSE IN POVERTY; A DAY CENTRE FOR ALL THOSE WHO FACE THESE ISSUES AS WELL AS THOSE WHO ARE MARGINALISED; ADVICE AND SUPPORT FOR INDIVIDUALS IN NEED2. THE PROMOTION OF THE EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF CHARITIES WITH A CHRISTIAN ETHOS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN NORTHAMPTONSHIRE IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE PROVISION OF ADVICE AND SUPPORT TO FAITH GROUPS AND PRACTICAL ASSISTANCE TO VOLUNTARY AND COMMUNITY SECTORS, STATUTORY BODIES AND OTHER AGENCIES.

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 · Accommodation/housing · Economic/community Development/employment · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The charity reported a small surplus of £599 for the year ended 31 March 2026, with total income increasing by 20.8% to £1,680,258. Total expenditure rose by 35.6% to £1,680,258, driven largely by increased staffing and premises costs. Free reserves stood at £341,984, which the trustees consider to be approximately 3.1 months of total expenditure, falling within their stated policy of maintaining between three and five months of expenditure.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Ellacotts Audit Services Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "below" (FY2025) to "within" (FY2026).

Comparing this charity’s FY2025 and FY2026 accounts as analysed 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
• 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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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 — Encompass (matched by registered charity number).

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~4.1 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (78% 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (14/07/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Victoria Elizabeth Barber MBBSchair
• CANON ANDREW ROY PRESLAND BSC HONS · trustee of 2 other charities
• Cheryl Lewis
• Chloe Cooper
• Jeanette Bone
• Julie Elizabeth Robinson
• Kathleen Margaret Franklin
• Rev Paul Robert Needle Dip Th
• Susan Anne Dennis · trustee of 1 other charity
• Terence Paul Johnson
• Vijay Kuman Paul

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

Operates in: Northamptonshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

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 ENCOMPASS CARE ORGANISATION UK.

• ENCOMPASS CARE ORGANISATION UK income £8.4m
• Compass - Services to Improve Health and Wellbeing income £21.3m
• THE CHARING CROSS CENTRE income £148k
• ACCOMMODATION CONCERN income £1.9m
• Trent Compassion Trust income £429k
• NHANCED COMMUNITIES income £182k

Side by side with its peers

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