COLIN BENNETT CHARITABLE TRUST FOR THE HOMELESS

Registered charity 1168571 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To relieve poverty of homeless people, those at risk of becoming homeless or those in insecure accommodation

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY (‘THE OBJECTS’) ARE TO RELIEVE POVERTY OF HOMELESS PEOPLE, THOSE AT RISK OF BECOMING HOMELESS OR THOSE IN INSECURE ACCOMMODATION BY:-1)PROVIDING THEM WITH SHELTER AND A BASE TO REBUILD THEIR LIVES;2)PROVIDING FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE; AND 3)PROVIDING ASSISTANCE TO ANY REGISTERED CHARITY IN ENGLAND AND WALES WHO IS ESTABLISHED TO FURTHER THE SAME PURPOSE.(THING IN THIS DEED SHALL AUTHORISE AN APPLICATION OF THE PROPERTY OF THE CHARITY FOR PURPOSES WHICH ARE NOT CHARITABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 7 OF THE CHARITIES AND TRUSTEE INVESTMENT (SCOTLAND) ACT 2005 AND/OR SECTION 2 OF THE CHARITIES ACT(NORTHERN IRELAND) 2008.].

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 · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the trust reported a surplus of £6,043 for the year ended 25 July 2025, bringing unrestricted funds to £1,146,451. The trustees confirm that the trust has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. The trust has no employees and incurred no fundraising costs during the period.

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 3 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
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• COLIN NELSON BENNETTchair · trustee of 3 other charities
• Dr IAN GAINSFORD DEWIS
• NIGEL GORDON HUMPHREYS · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Essex

Income and spending

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