STANDING TALL CIO

Registered charity 1185476 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as STANDING TALL

Standing Tall works alongside people experiencing homelessness and matches them with employment opportunities enabling them to take control of their lives and move away from the streets for good.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:1) THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT OF PEOPLE WHO ARE HOMELESS AND THOSE AT RISK OF HOMELESSNESS IN SUCH WAYS AS MAY BE THOUGHT FIT, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE PROVISION OF SHORT-TERM ACCOMMODATION DELIVERED THROUGH A HOSTING SERVICE AND BY WORKING AND LIAISING WITH OTHER AGENCIES TO PROVIDE LONG-TERM SOLUTIONS.2) THE RELIEF OF UNEMPLOYMENT FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT OF PEOPLE WHO ARE HOMELESS AND THOSE AT RISK OF FACING HOMELESSNESS IN SUCH WAYS AS MAY BE THOUGHT FIT, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO SHORT-TERM WORK PLACEMENTS AND ASSISTANCE TO FIND EMPLOYMENT.

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 · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Birmingham, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a small deficit of £1,231 for the year ended 30 June 2025, with total funds decreasing slightly to £99,211. Unrestricted free reserves were £55,773, which is below the trustees' stated policy target of securing three months of core costs estimated at £60,549. The trustees consider the going concern basis appropriate, citing the current level of unrestricted reserves as sufficient.

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 6 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 policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• 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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Standing Tall (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Mark Ashfieldchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Alexandra Marks
• Anoushka Kenley
• Lee Lam
• Luke Hunter
• Saba Arab
• Simon Day
• Sophia Hollis
• Steve Lappin

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with STANDING TALL FOUNDATION.

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• DISABILITY STOCKPORT CIO income £1.5m

Side by side with its peers

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