YORK ROAD PROJECT

Registered charity 1162835 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We help a homeless person have a place to call home by providing: 1. Immediate, safe, short-term accommodation; they should never need to sleep rough!2. Experienced, compassionate staff; trained to understand the causes of homelessness3. Skilled support, tailored to their precise situation, that helps them find a long-term home. Only York Road Project provides all 3 things in our locality

Objects

The Objects of York Road Project are to relieve need, distress and financial hardship among homeless people over the age of 18 within the Borough of Woking and environs, without discrimination, by:  i) Providing temporary housing to assist those who are homeless, at risk of being homeless or recovering from homelessness ii) Providing housing related support such as information, advice, training and onward referral or signposting to enable them to live more independent lives in the communityiii) Assisting homeless people’s integration into the community by educating the local community concerning the nature, causes and effects of homelessness.”

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

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £92,749 for the year ending 31 March 2025, with total income of £832,318 against expenditure of £739,569. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £276,778, which exceeds the stated policy target of holding no less than the cost of winding up plus up to three months of operating costs.

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
• 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
• 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
• 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 — York Road Project (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).

• National Lottery Community Fund — “York Road Project is proud to be supported by the National Lottery Community Fund” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). 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 ~4.5 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 (50% 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: 4.9% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (13/04/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Timothy Hentychair
• Andrea Norman-Walker
• David Oliver
• Filippo Zanasi
• Fraser Robert McIntyre · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nathan Bennett
• Victoria Maggie Ward

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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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with YELLOW BRICK ROAD PROJECTS.

• YELLOW BRICK ROAD PROJECTS income £344k
• BETTER WAY RECOVERY income £566k
• PARK LODGE PROJECT income £2.4m
• HOMELESS ACTION income £3.8m
• STREET STORAGE income £353k
• YORK CARES income £326k

Side by side with its peers

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