ROUTES TO ROOTS (POOLE) CIO

Registered charity 1155945 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as R2R

Routes to Roots is a drop-in centre for those experiencing homelessness, newly homed and vulnerably housed adults in Poole. R2R provides a drop in centre and hot lunch Mon-Fri, showers, washing facilities and offers signposting to other agencies.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF ROUGH SLEEPERS AND VULNERABLY HOUSED PEOPLE IN THE BOROUGH OF POOLE BY FURTHERING SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AS ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND THE RELIEF OF UNEMPLOYMENT. FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE, THE TERM 'ROUGH SLEEPERS AND VULNERABLY HOUSED' MEANS ANYONE WITHOUT A HOME, THOSE LIVING ON THE STREETS, THOSE WITH NO FIXED ABODE, THOSE IN MAKESHIFT ACCOMODATION, THOSE IN EMERGENCY ACCOMODATION, THOSE WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED HOMELESSNESS AND THOSE WHO ARE AT RISK OF BECOMING HOMELESS.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the financial year with a deficit of £44,000, largely driven by £87,000 in necessary building repairs. Although cash reserves of £62,000 are in line with the stated policy, the trustees note that this leaves the charity with very little room to manoeuvre financially.

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

What the accounts disclose

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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting 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 31/03/2023 (received 14/03/2024, 43 days after the 31/01/2024 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 — Routes to Roots (Poole) CIO (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £300k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (04/07/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (28/02/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev LUCINDA JANE HOLTchair · trustee of 4 other charities
• Rev LUCINDA JANE HOLTchair · trustee of 4 other charities
• Martin Finch
• Rebecca Parsons
• Rev Canon Pamela Wise
• Richard Alan Charles Phillips
• Sara Louise Turner

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

Operates in: Poole

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).

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ROOTS RADICAL LEARNING.

• ROOTS RADICAL LEARNING income £127k
• THE ROOTS FOUNDATION WALES income £246k
• NEW ROOTS LIMITED income £82k
• LIVERPOOL ROOTS TRUST LIMITED income £78k

Side by side with its peers

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