GREATER CHANGE FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1188164 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as GCF

The Greater Change Foundation provides flexible financial support to people experiencing homelessness, helping them take big long-term steps out of homelessness.We work with partner charities and their support workers to empower our clients to create a plan for how they want to get out of homelessness; and work to enable this plan by helping them to overcome the financial barriers they face.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY IN ENGLAND BY PROVIDING: GRANTS, ITEMS AND SERVICES TO INDIVIDUALS IN NEED AND/OR CHARITIES, OR OTHER ORGANISATIONS WORKING TO PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTY.

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 · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total operational costs were £182,068 with £1m released directly to clients, maintaining a cost-effective model. The charity holds free reserves of £326,429, which the trustees confirm represents just over three months of projected expenditure, meeting their stated policy target. The trustees express confidence in the organization's financial resilience and ability to sustain operations.

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

What the accounts disclose

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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• 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
• Paying staff
• 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

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.

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: GREATER CHANGE COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY Companies House 11914487

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Greater Change Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Jonathan Tan — CEO (source)
• Paul Radziwill — Chair (source)
• Katie O'Connor — Director (source)
• Fadzai Dzimwasha — Director (source)
• Amelia Hopkins Phillips — Director (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Funders the charity credits

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

• The Greater Change Foundation — “Greater Change Community Interest Company (registered name) also known as Greater Change (company no: 11914487, Registered Address: 82 St Jo…” (source page)
• LandAid — “At LandAid, we try to support initiatives that have an evidence base to them – it's one of the reasons we champion the End it with Evidence …” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (99% 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: 0.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Theodore James Stevenson-Hillchair
• Alexander John McCallion
• John Arthur Gapper
• Jonathan Hong Kai Tan
• Juliet Emily Keirsten Patterson
• Paul Colbeck Murray
• Richard James Whalley
• Sophie Dufouleur

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

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

• FOUNDATION FOR CHANGE income £243k
• CHANGE PLEASE FOUNDATION income £1.6m
• THE CHANGE FOUNDATION income £1.3m
• GREATER MANCHESTER IMMIGRATION AID UNIT income £2.3m
• BIG CHANGE CHARITABLE TRUST income £2.2m
• POWER TO CHANGE TRUST income £938k

Side by side with its peers

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