WYCOMBE HOMELESS CONNECTION

Registered charity 1156211 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WYCOMBE WINTER NIGHT SHELTER

Wycombe Homeless Connection serves people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness in south Bucks, working with volunteers, partner organisations and local authorities.Motivated by our Christian faith, we provide free advice and support to prevent homelessness and to reduce the harm it causes. We help people find a home and defend the rights of people who are homeless or facing homelessness.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF POVERTY BY THE PROVISION OF EMERGENCY AND OTHER ACCOMMODATION, ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE FOR PERSONS IN NEED WHO ARE DEEMED HOMELESS AND REQUIRE SUCH ACCOMMODATION, ADVICE, OR ASSISTANCE.

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 · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves were £448,822, which is above the stated policy target of maintaining between 3 and 6 months of operating expenditure plus sufficient funds for legal liabilities. The charity reported a net deficit for the year, with total income of £650,554 and total expenditure of £605,268, resulting in a decrease in net assets from the previous year.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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
• 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
• 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.

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 30/04/2024 (received 05/03/2025, 5 days after the 28/02/2025 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 — Wycombe Homeless Connection (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• UK Government’s Ending Homelessness in Communities Fund — “are delighted that our partnership has been awarded almost £555,000 over three years through the UK Government’s Ending Homelessness in Comm…” (source page)
• Arnold Clark Fund — “Grant makers and wider support Arnold Clark Fund” (source page)
• BP Collins — “Grant makers and wider support Arnold Clark Fund BP Collins” (source page)
• B&Q Foundation — “Grant makers and wider support Arnold Clark Fund BP Collins B&Q Foundation” (source page)
• Frodsham Evangelistic Trust — “Grant makers and wider support Arnold Clark Fund BP Collins B&Q Foundation Frodsham Evangelistic Trust” (source page)
• Garfield Weston Foundation — “Grant makers and wider support Arnold Clark Fund BP Collins B&Q Foundation Frodsham Evangelistic Trust Garfield Weston Foundation” (source page)
• Heart of Bucks — “Grant makers and wider support Arnold Clark Fund BP Collins B&Q Foundation Frodsham Evangelistic Trust Garfield Weston Foundation Heart of…” (source page)
• Homeless Link — “Grant makers and wider support Arnold Clark Fund BP Collins B&Q Foundation Frodsham Evangelistic Trust Garfield Weston Foundation Heart of…” (source page)
• King/Cullimore Trust — “Grant makers and wider support Arnold Clark Fund BP Collins B&Q Foundation Frodsham Evangelistic Trust Garfield Weston Foundation Heart of…” (source page)
• Kop Hill Climb — “Grant makers and wider support Arnold Clark Fund BP Collins B&Q Foundation Frodsham Evangelistic Trust Garfield Weston Foundation Heart of…” (source page)
• Lloyds Bank Foundation — “Grant makers and wider support Arnold Clark Fund BP Collins B&Q Foundation Frodsham Evangelistic Trust Garfield Weston Foundation Heart of…” (source page)
• MCKS Charitable Foundation UK — “Grant makers and wider support Arnold Clark Fund BP Collins B&Q Foundation Frodsham Evangelistic Trust Garfield Weston Foundation Heart of…” (source page)
• National Women's Register (NWR) — “Grant makers and wider support Arnold Clark Fund BP Collins B&Q Foundation Frodsham Evangelistic Trust Garfield Weston Foundation Heart of…” (source page)
• Nightingale Charitable Trust — “Grant makers and wider support Arnold Clark Fund BP Collins B&Q Foundation Frodsham Evangelistic Trust Garfield Weston Foundation Heart of…” (source page)
• NPT UK — “Grant makers and wider support Arnold Clark Fund BP Collins B&Q Foundation Frodsham Evangelistic Trust Garfield Weston Foundation Heart of…” (source page)

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/04/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.0 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (93% 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: 19.9% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (03/06/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Kathryn Elizabeth Rogerschair
• DAVID SPARKS · trustee of 1 other charity
• DAVID WINDER
• Dawn Segrue
• Edward Atwell
• Jane Spoerry
• Mark Dykes · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nia Sherrington
• Richard Alexander · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Buckinghamshire

Income and spending

Common questions

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

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WYCOMBE REFUGEE PARTNERSHIP.

• WYCOMBE REFUGEE PARTNERSHIP income £62k
• Connection Support income £10.1m
• SUTTON COMMUNITY WORKS income £423k
• WHITECHAPEL CENTRE income £9.8m
• COMMUNITY CONNEX LTD. income £2.5m
• ROCHDALE CONNECTIONS TRUST income £618k

Side by side with its peers

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