OXFORD WINTER NIGHT SHELTER

Registered charity 1175750 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The provision of sleeping accommodation and snack meals to rough sleepers each night between January and March. Currently twelve venues are providing twenty beds every night in Oxford churches, with over three hundred volunteers enlisted to cover three shifts a night.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE TO:THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AMONGST HOMELESS PEOPLE AND ROUGH SLEEPERS IN THE OXFORDSHIRE AREA BY WORKING WITH CHRISTIAN CHURCHES AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS TO PROVIDE NIGHT SHELTERS, AND OTHER RELEVANT MEANS TO RELIEVE THEIR SUFFERING.

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds ended at £132k, which is just below the £138k required to cover two years of costs under the charity's reserves policy. The charity reported a net decrease in total funds of £493 for the year, with unrestricted reserves decreasing from £137,718 to £131,725.

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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting 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)

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/10/2022 (received 07/09/2023, 7 days after the 31/08/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev MARY GURRchair
• APRIL MELANIE HALL
• Jane Mitchell
• Leslie Elizabeth Topp
• Paul Charles Thompson · trustee of 2 other charities
• Susan Jane Barratt · trustee of 3 other charities
• Zachary Jackman

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

Operates in: Oxfordshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HOLY TRINITY NIGHT SHELTER & COMMUNITY OUTREACH.

• HOLY TRINITY NIGHT SHELTER & COMMUNITY OUTREACH income £79k
• THE CITY OF OXFORD CHARITY LIMITED income £443k
• LWS NIGHT SHELTER CIO income £25k
• Colchester Engagement & Next Steps Ltd income £414k
• The Sleep Charity income £607k
• FIRMFOUNDATION income £468k

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