ASHLEY HOUSE HOSTEL

Registered charity 1182930 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To provide approved premises under the provisions of the Courts & Criminal Services Act 2000

Objects

1. THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE THAT THE ASHLEY HOUSE HOSTEL INCLUDING ANY BUILDINGS HEREAFTER TO BE ERECTED THEREON SHALL BE HELD FOR THE PURPOSES OF MAINTAINING AN APPROVED HOSTEL, APPROVED HOME, APPROVED SCHOOL OR OTHER INSTITUTION APPROVED FOR RECEIVING, SUPERVISING, EDUCATING AND OTHERWISE PROVIDING FOR ALL OR ANY PERSONS REFERRED TO ASHLEY HOUSE HOSTEL UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE ACT 2000 OR ANY LEGISLATION OR ORDER REPLACING OR AMENDING THE SAME AND FOR SUCH PURPOSES ANCILLARY TO THE PURPOSES HEREINBEFORE DESCRIBED, INCLUDING THE PROVISION AND EQUIPMENT OF SUCH RECREATION ROOMS (INCLUDING A GYMNASIUM) AND CLUBS (IF ANY) AS IN THE OPINION OF THE CHARITY TRUSTEES SHALL BE NECESSARY OR DESIRABLE TO FURTHER SUCH PURPOSES AS AFORESAID.

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred an in-year deficit of £131,052, reducing total funds carried forward to £1,790,738. The trustees confirm that operations ceased in the post-year-end period, but the charity retains freehold property and sufficient free reserves with minimal ongoing costs. The auditors confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Randall & Payne LLP. 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• 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

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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~16.2 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (100% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (25/01/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• NICK GOUGHchair
• ANGELA MARY LONG
• Glynthea Modood
• MR NICK STROUD
• MR WILL HULL

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

Operates in: Bristol City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with PROGRESS TO CHANGE.

• PROGRESS TO CHANGE income £2.5m
• CHARMINSTER PRE-SCHOOL income £189k
• ACCESS COMMUNITY TRUST income £5.9m
• BIRCH HOUSING LIMITED income £1.8m
• ASYLUM WELCOME income £1.6m
• CROWNHOST LIMITED income £167k

Side by side with its peers

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