CHICHESTER HEART FOR HOMELESS

Registered charity 1185120 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We work with churches of different denominations to serve homeless people in the city of Chichester. We do this by providing hot meals in church premises, with an emphasis on welcome and hospitality. We have employed an outreach worker and trained volunteers. We work with other charitable and statutory agencies to help direct people who are homeless to appropriate sources of support.

Objects

(1) The prevention or the relief of poverty among people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness in the locality by: (a) identifying and serving their material and social needs; (b) providing advice and support to people who are homeless, including in respect of housing and employment; and (c) supporting and training members of local church communities to further objects (1) (a) and (b). (2) To advance the Christian religion in the locality for the benefit of people who are homeless by: (a) identifying and serving their pastoral and spiritual needs; (b) helping people who are homeless, if they choose to do so, to access and to participate in Christian teaching, worship and ministry; and(c) supporting and training members of local church communities to further objects (2) (a) and (b). (3) In this clause: (a) “the locality” means the City of Chichester and such other areas within England as the charity trustees may decide from time to time; and (b) “people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness” includes any person who is currently homeless, who is insecurely housed or who has previously been homeless.

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 unrestricted reserves stood at £95,167 against a stated policy target of six months' running costs, indicating reserves are above the current policy threshold. The charity reports a net incoming resource of £59,933 for the year and confirms adequate resources to continue in operational existence.

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 policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• Fiona Anne Ellischair
• Andrew Haddow
• Julian Roberts
• Matthew Lee Witts · trustee of 2 other charities
• Revd Canon Vanessa Baron · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: West Sussex

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CHESTER AID TO THE HOMELESS.

• CHESTER AID TO THE HOMELESS income £425k
• Church Homeless Charity income £421k
• HOPE HOUSE (CHESTERFIELD) income £146k
• CHESS Homeless income £4.6m
• PATHWAYS: CHESTERFIELD DAY CENTRE FOR THE HOMELESS income £422k
• HOMELESS PEOPLE AND THE OXFORD CHURCHES(GATEHOUSE) income £429k

Side by side with its peers

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