Bromley Homeless

Registered charity 1186655 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BROMLEY CHURCHES HOUSING ACTION, LATCH

The charity provides advice, advocacy and support to anyone who is homeless or at risk of becoming homeless in the London Borough of Bromley. Activities include face to face, telephone and email advice service, hosted accommodation and ongoing welfare and tenancy sustainment support.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF POVERTY THROUGH CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES BY THE PROVISION OF ACCOMMODATION, ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE OR ANY SUCH OTHER THINGS AS THE TRUSTEES CONSIDER NECESSARY FOR THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE OBJECTS TO PERSONS IN NEED WHO ARE EITHER HOMELESS, THREATENED WITH HOMELESSNESS OR HAVE INADEQUATE LIVING ARRANGEMENTS.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bromley, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a surplus of £92,221 for the year ended 30 June 2025, driven by a significant increase in income to £432,533, largely from grants for a new night shelter. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted free reserves stood at £277,850, which is within the stated policy target of 10 to 14 months of budgeted expenditure.

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 4 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
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Bromley Homeless (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). 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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (24/08/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (05/05/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Mark James Killickchair
• Angela Catherine Short · trustee of 1 other charity
• Charles John Middleton
• Cynthia Knowles
• David William Ede
• Eileen Marie Hayes
• Ian Scott
• Sandra Jane Taylor

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

Operates in: Bromley

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

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 BROMLEY CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAUX LIMITED.

• BROMLEY CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAUX LIMITED income £946k
• BROMLEY ARTS TRUST income £179k
• HARROGATE HOMELESS PROJECT LTD income £1.2m
• BROMLEY HOUSE LIBRARY income £505k
• CHORLEY HELP THE HOMELESS income £109k
• HOMELESS ACTION income £3.8m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.