GILLINGHAM STREET ANGELS

Registered charity 1184311 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE STREET ANGELS

We support people living in Medway affected by homelessness, financial hardship & food poverty. We deliver our support holistically through free foodbanks, community soup kitchens & school uniform banks on top of a wide range of other food initiatives & services. We have charity stores, recycling programmes, inclusive volunteering schemes and a selection of other free health & wellbeing services.

Objects

TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF PEOPLE IN GILLINGHAM, KENT WHO ARE HOMELESS OR AT RISK OF HOMELESSNESS AND ARE IN FINANCIAL HARDSHIP IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT, IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BYA) PROVIDING EMERGENCY FOOD, BEDDING, AND OTHER HOUSEHOLD ITEMS TO INDIVIDUALS IN NEEDB) SUCH OTHER MEANS, INCLUDING (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT OR SIGNPOSTING TO RELEVANT INFORMATION AND OTHER ADVISORY SERVICES.

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 · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2023 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's unrestricted reserves at year-end were £107,107, which is below the stated policy target of £100,000 (representing three months' running costs). The trustees reported significant internal control failures and inadequate financial records, leading to the dismissal of a Finance Officer and the appointment of new accountants to review the figures.

Automated summary of the FY2023 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 3 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls 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)

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

2 annual returns are past their due date with no recorded received date (Charity Commission register).

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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~3.8 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (67% 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: 0.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (14/12/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Angela Yates
• Daniel Henderson
• ISITOA CHUKWUMA UWAECHIA
• Karen Elisabeth Ann Macklin

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

Operates in: Kent · Medway

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE MEDWAY STREET ANGELS.

• THE MEDWAY STREET ANGELS income £49k
• STREET ANGELS UK income £27k
• HOMELESS STREET ANGELS LIMITED income £147k
• WOKING STREET ANGELS income £26k
• ANGELS INTERNATIONAL income £355k
• GRANGE OVER SANDS COMMUNITY FOODSHARE income £113k

Side by side with its peers

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