The Alongside Charity

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

We work with people experiencing social exclusion, providing outreach, accommodation and support.Our clients may be sleeping rough, fleeing abuse, rebuilding after trauma, leaving prison, recovering from addiction, or trying to settle safely in a new community. Whatever their starting point, we work alongside people to help build safety, stability and independence

Objects

3.1 THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ARE TO CARRY ON FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:(A) THE BUSINESS OF PROVIDING AND MANAGING HOUSING, INCLUDING SOCIAL HOUSING, AND PROVIDING ASSISTANCE TO HELP HOUSE PEOPLE AND ASSOCIATED FACILITIES, AMENITIES AND SERVICES FOR PEOPLE IN NECESSITOUS CIRCUMSTANCES, POOR PEOPLE OR FOR THE RELIEF OF AGED, DISABLED (WHETHER PHYSICALLY OR MENTALLY) OR CHRONICALLY SICK PEOPLE;(B) TO RELIEVE UNEMPLOYMENT, HOMELESSNESS AND SOCIAL EXCLUSION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY PROVIDING INDIVIDUALS IN CHARITABLE NEED WITH SUCH TRAINING, SUPPORT AND EMPLOYMENT AND OTHER OPPORTUNITIES, AS MAY BE THOUGHT FIT; AND(C) SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT FROM TIME TO TIME."SOCIAL HOUSING" MEANS LOW COST RENTAL ACCOMMODATION AND LOW COST HOME OWNERSHIP ACCOMMODATION AS DEFINED IN SECTIONS 68 TO 77 OF THE HOUSING AND REGENERATION ACT 2008;

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

Registered contact address: Bath and North East Somerset, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Group reported a surplus of £190,612 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total turnover increasing by 11% to £11.1 million. Free reserves were £1.83 million, which the Trustees confirmed is within their stated target range of £1.81 million to £2.695 million. The auditors confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and reported nothing regarding material uncertainties about the entity'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 Sumer Auditco Limited. 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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events 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
• 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.

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 (3.7%) (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

• David Lloyd Jobbinschair
• Clive Anthony Pugh
• Dr Julia Carol Ferguson
• Dr Marek Tadeusz Koperski
• Emma J Cooke
• 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 AlongSide.

• AlongSide income £1.2m
• ASIST income £1.4m
• Connection Support income £10.1m
• Alongside for His Glory income £33k
• The Teesside Charity income £620k
• THE ASCENSION TRUST income £983k

Side by side with its peers

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