The Alongside Charity

Registered charity 1183751 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as JH Bristol, JULIAN HOUSE, SEE CHANGE

Julian House provides a range of services to socially excluded people across the South West; particularly in the areas of homelessness, domestic abuse and community rehabilitation. We operate a range of supported housing projects, emergency hostel accommodation, advice services, assertive outreach support and a number of social enterprises. Not just changing lives. Often saving lives

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Group held free reserves of £1.83m, which the Trustees confirmed was within their stated target range of £1.81m to £2.695m. The Group reported a surplus for the year of £191k and total funds of £4.93m, with the Trustees asserting that resources are adequate 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 Sumer Auditco Limited. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

In the news

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

• “More than words.” How E.ON is putting people first alongside charity partner, Mind news.eonenergy.com · 13/05/2026

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: JULIAN HOUSE TRADING LIMITED Companies House 03450273
• Registered company of the charity Companies House 11791952

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Alongside - Julian House (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Helen Bedser — Chief Executive (source)
• Katie Chesher — Client Services Director (source)
• Zoe Conn — Fundraising & Development Director (source)
• Laura Baxter — Finance Director (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• EVANS, Georgina — director, appointed 08/06/2026on trustee list
• SQUIRE, Sarah Louise — director, appointed 17/09/2025on trustee list
• KOPERSKI, Marek Tadeusz — director, appointed 10/07/2024on trustee list
• BUTTERS, Sonya — director, appointed 01/11/2023not on trustee list
• FERGUSON, Julia Carol, Dr — director, appointed 15/03/2023on trustee list
• DARWISH, Naji Anwaar — director, appointed 14/03/2023on trustee list
• HOUSE, Julian — director, appointed 03/08/2022on trustee list
• PUGH, Clive Anthony — director, appointed 14/05/2020on trustee list
• JOBBINS, David Lloyd — director, appointed 01/01/2020on trustee list
• COOKE, Emma Jayne — director, appointed 28/01/2019on trustee list
• BAXTER, Laura Claire — secretary, appointed 09/08/2021

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

17 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (3 freehold); recorded price paid £1.7m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.0 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (83% 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: 12.0% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/12/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (01/11/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (20/09/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Emma J Cookechair
• Clive Anthony Pugh
• David Lloyd Jobbins
• Dr Julia Carol Ferguson
• Dr Marek Tadeusz Koperski
• Georgina Evans
• Julian House
• Naji Anwaar Darwish
• Sarah Louise Squire
• Sonya Butters FCA
• Timothy William Mitchell

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

Operates in: Bath And North East Somerset · Bristol City · Devon · Dorset · Gloucestershire · Hampshire · North Somerset · Somerset · South Gloucestershire · Wiltshire

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 HOUSING JUSTICE.

• HOUSING JUSTICE income £3.0m
• THE SOCIETY OF ST JAMES income £17.9m
• HOME SERVICES SUPPORT income £212k
• IMPAKT HOUSING & SUPPORT income £6.4m
• EMMANUEL HOUSE SUPPORT CENTRE income £1.0m
• HOPE HOUSING, TRAINING AND SUPPORT LIMITED income £1.6m

Side by side with its peers

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