King's Lynn Night Shelter

Registered charity 1175645 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as KING'S LYNN WINTER NIGHT SHELTER

We provide emergency or temporary single room accommodation on a 24/7 basis to adults in West Norfolk with nowhere else safe to stay. We are funded by grants from other charities and grant-making bodies and donations from churches, community groups and individuals. We do not charge our guests to stay with us but we do support eligible guests to claim Housing Benefit towards the cost of their stay.

Objects

The relief of poverty and prevention and relief of homelessness by providing throughout the year a night shelter and/or provision of sustenance for the benefit of homeless persons in the Borough of King?s Lynn and West Norfolk, and by supporting and assisting those people experiencing homelessness who want to gain respite from homelessness and thereafter progress towards sustainable accommodation.

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: King's Lynn and West Norfolk, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves decreased from £200,928 to £164,570 following a net deficit of £31,358 for the year. The trustees report that grant income significantly decreased while staff costs increased, and the independent examiner has raised concerns about the charity's going concern status due to forecasted significant losses.

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 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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• King’s Lynn Night Shelter to reopen following successful fundraising campaign dioceseofnorwich.org · 29/07/2026

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (29/07/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Nicholas Colemanchair
• Alan William Clark
• Ian Alexander Bell
• Karyn Herd · trustee of 1 other charity
• Lady Felicity Lyons
• Michael Parnell
• Tom Mulready

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

Operates in: Norfolk

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LWS NIGHT SHELTER CIO.

• LWS NIGHT SHELTER CIO income £25k
• THE PURFLEET TRUST RESETTLEMENT PROJECT (KING'S LYNN) LIMITED income £859k
• GRANTHAM ARK income £6k
• WALTHAM FOREST CHURCHES NIGHT SHELTER-WFCNS LIMITED income £858k
• OXFORD WINTER NIGHT SHELTER income £68k
• KING'S LYNN CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP income £217k

Side by side with its peers

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