ONE ROOF LEICESTER

Registered charity 1159018 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ORL

The objects of the charity are the prevention or relief of poverty in Leicester and Leicestershire by providing support, advice and accommodation to homeless or socially isolated individuals or families, and by supporting other voluntary, faith or community organisations working to prevent or relieve poverty.

Objects

THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY IN LEICESTER AND LEICESTERSHIRE BY PROVIDING SUPPORT, ADVICE AND ACCOMMODATION TO HOMELESS OR SOCIALLY ISOLATED INDIVIDUALS OR FAMILIES, AND BY SUPPORTING OTHER VOLUNTARY, FAITH OR COMMUNITY ORGANISATIONS WORKING TO PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTY.

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 · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a total surplus of £639,566 for the year ended 31 March 2025, driven by significant capital donations and grants. Total funds increased to £1,513,321, with unrestricted reserves of £121,903 and restricted reserves of £1,391,418. The trustees maintain reserves at a level sufficient to operate as a going concern for at least six months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by SKM Chartered Accountants. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "below" (FY2024) to "above" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• 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 — One Roof Leicester (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Salma Ravat — CEO (source)
• Dr Nigel Hewett OBE — Chair of Trustees (source)
• Santok Odedra — Deputy CEO (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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

6 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (5 freehold); recorded price paid £969k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (96% 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).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew David Humberstone
• Anna Marie Maudsley
• Anthony Richard Simpson
• CHRISTINE ASHTON
• Dr Nigel Collington Hewett
• ROBERT FOSTER
• Rev Sarah Gill · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Leicester City · Leicestershire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ONE CHURCH LEICESTER.

• ONE CHURCH LEICESTER income £1.6m
• ONE BIG FAMILY - HELPING THE HOMELESS income £386k
• ONE FOOTSTEP income £546k
• ONE BY ONE income £620k
• ONE CHURCH income £1.2m
• ONE CAUSE LIMITED income £162k

Side by side with its peers

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