HELPING HOMELESS BELIEVE (HHB)

Registered charity 1187141 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HELPING HOMELESS BELIEVE, PREVIOUSLY KNOWN AS HELP HOMELESS BRISTOL

Helping Homeless Believe provide support to the homeless community, those who have experienced homelessness and are at risk of homelessness. Providing a day centre as a safe space, as well as providing basic needs such as washing facilities and laundry. Helping Homeless Believe also provide a weekly outreach service providing food and self care items to the homeless community.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:A) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY BY THE PROVISION OF ADVICE, SUPPORT AND ASSISTANCE FOR PERSONS IN NEED, WHO ARE DEEMED TO BE HOMELESS, VULNERABLY HOUSED OR OTHERWISE SUFFERING THE EFFECTS OF POVERTY. B) TO SECURE THE RESOURCES TO SUPPORT THE RELIEF OF POVERTY THROUGH THE PROVISION OF EMERGENCY AND OTHER ACCOMMODATION,

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 · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: South Gloucestershire, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the financial year in a good position and received a number of grants. The trustees' report indicates that there is no stated policy for holding reserves and no details of funds materially in deficit. The document does not disclose specific financial figures for reserves, income, or expenditure.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• 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)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 01/04/2021 (received 25/02/2022, 24 days after the 01/02/2022 due date).

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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Gemsec — “Gemsec also donated £1000 to help towards the running of the van.” (source page)

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Natalie Reedchair
• Saffron Cottee
• Samantha May McNiven

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

Operates in: Bristol City · South Gloucestershire

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 HOMELESS HAMPERS.

• HOMELESS HAMPERS income £23k
• HELPING CARING TEAM income £89k
• HELP THE HOMELESS LIMITED income £74k
• HOMELESS IN TEIGNBRIDGE SUPPORT income £88k
• HOPE income £53k
• CHORLEY HELP THE HOMELESS income £109k

Side by side with its peers

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