CENTRAL LONDON SAMARITANS

Registered charity 1171330 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

CENTRAL LONDON SAMARITANS PROVIDES A SAFE PLACE FOR PEOPLE TO TALK, ROUND THE CLOCK, EVERY SINGLE DAY OF THE YEAR. PEOPLE CAN GET IN TOUCH BY PHONE, EMAIL, TEXT, LETTER OR BY VISITING A BRANCH. VOLUNTEERS ALSO DO OUTREACH WORK, FOR EXAMPLE AT FESTIVALS, PRISONS AND SCHOOLS.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE:1) TO ENABLE PERSONS IN CENTRAL LONDON AND THE SURROUNDING AREA AS WELL AS ELSEWHERE WHO ARE EXPERIENCING FEELINGS OF DISTRESS OR DESPAIR, INCLUDING THOSE WHO MAY BE AT RISK OF SUICIDE, TO RECEIVE CONFIDENTIAL EMOTIONAL SUPPORT AT ANY TIME OF THE DAY OR NIGHT IN ORDER TO IMPROVE THEIR EMOTIONAL HEALTH AND TO REDUCE THE INCIDENCE OF SUICIDE;2) TO PROMOTE A BETTER UNDERSTANDING IN SOCIETY OF SUICIDE, SUICIDAL BEHAVIOUR AND THE VALUE OF EXPRESSING FEELINGS WHICH MAY OTHERWISE LEAD TO SUICIDE OR IMPAIRED EMOTIONAL HEALTH; AND3) TO COLLABORATE WITH AND SUPPORT SAMARITANS CENTRAL CHARITY AND ITS AFFILIATED BRANCHES IN FULFILLING THESE OBJECTS.

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 Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Westminster, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £197,465 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds. The trustees note that the free reserve of £256,604 represents 6.0 months of expenditure, which is at the bottom of their stated policy target range of six to twelve months. Despite this, the auditors confirmed that the charity has adequate resources to continue as a going concern for the foreseeable future.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Hartley Fowler LLP. 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
• 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 — Central London Samaritans (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £3.2m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~8.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.9% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Ian Bassfordchair
• Bethan Alice Davies
• Claire Anne Marie Justin
• Helen Elizabeth Buck
• Hitesh Kanji Mistry
• Jane Sheila Little
• Jeremy Paul Marcus
• John Trimbos
• Nathan Paul Coffey
• Sham Singh

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

Operates in: City Of Westminster

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 CENTRAL LONDON FORERUNNERS.

• CENTRAL LONDON FORERUNNERS income £31k
• SAMARITANS income £24.6m
• CAMBRIDGE SAMARITANS income £85k
• NORTHAMPTON SAMARITANS income £119k
• NOTTINGHAM SAMARITANS income £18k
• SAMARITANS OF LANCASTER & DISTRICT income £67k

Side by side with its peers

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