Rentstart (UK) Ltd

Registered charity 1156746 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ELMBRIDGE RENTSTART, ELMBRIDGE RENTSTART (UK) LIMITED

The Charity is established for the relief of poverty and distress and the protection of health among persons within the borough of Elmbridge by the provision of deposit guarantees to landlords and advice for the benefit of those not entitled to statutory housing or who by special circumstances would not benefit from such statutory rights.

Objects

THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY AMONG PEOPLE LIVING IN THE UK WHO ARE HOMELESS OR AT RISK OF BECOMING HOMELESS BY PROVIDING AND ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF HOUSING, ADVICE, SUPPORT AND PRACTICAL ASSISTANCE AND BY SUCH OTHER MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES MAY IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT

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

Registered contact address: Elmbridge, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a surplus of £32,973, resulting in total unrestricted reserves of £197,403. Per the trustees' report, these free reserves meet the charity's stated policy target, which requires holding between 25% and 50% of total annual expenditure. The auditors confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate 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 Nyman Libson Paul LLP. 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
• 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 — Rentstart (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Helen Watson — Chief Executive (source)
• Helena Horsford — Director of Client Services (source)
• Liz Belok — Head of Operations (source)
• Laura Phillips-Farmer — Head of Community Engagement (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.5 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (74% 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: 1.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Nigel Lucaschair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Clare Louise Forrester
• Leslie Paul Holmes
• Michael Peter Jonathan Farr
• Susan Ann Seery

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

Operates in: Surrey

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 RENTRUST FOUNDATION LIMITED.

• RENTRUST FOUNDATION LIMITED income £168k
• SPELTHORNE RENTSTART income £365k
• CLEVELAND HOUSING TRUST LIMITED income £583k
• LAKELAND HOUSING TRUST income £1.0m
• Shelter Housing Advice and Research Project (Leicester) income £146k
• OSBALDESTON TRUST income £68k

Side by side with its peers

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