CAMROSE CENTRE BASINGSTOKE

Registered charity 1188693 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CAMROSE

Up to 5 days a week, up to 4 hours a day, in a drop in day centre offering; temporary shelter, hot meals, showers, clean clothing, food packs to homeless (rough sleeping, sofa-surfing, B&B) and vulnerably housed people as appropriate. Offering a non-judgemental listening ear and guidance towards improving personal circumstances. Assisting with access to other agencies to improve their situations.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE: 1) TO RELIEVE THE CHARITABLE NEEDS OF HOMELESS PEOPLE AND THOSE WHO ARE AT RISK OF HOMELESSNESS IN BASINGSTOKE, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY: A) ESTABLISHING A SHORT TERM CRISIS RELIEF DAY CENTRE PROVIDING SUCH PEOPLE WITH SUPPORT, COMPANIONSHIP, ADVICE, INFORMATION, FOOD, CLOTHING, SLEEPING EQUIPMENT, HAIRCUTS, SHOWERING FACILITIES AND ACCESS TO TELEPHONES AND IT EQUIPMENT FOR THE PURPOSES OF COMMUNICATION; B) RAISING AWARENESS OF HOMELESSNESS IN BASINGSTOKE, ADVOCATING FOR HOMELESS PEOPLE AND THOSE AT RISK OF HOMELESSNESS WITH THE AIM OF BETTER MEETING THEIR NEEDS AND IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS. 2) TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PREVENTING PEOPLE FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY. FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE ?SOCIALLY EXCLUDED? MEANS BEING EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PART OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF BEING A MEMBER OF A SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DEPRIVED COMMUNITY.

Area of benefit: LOCAL

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 · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Basingstoke and Deane, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The charity reported a net income of £23,904, resulting in total funds carried forward of £231,355. The accounts state that the charity received a £20,000 grant which turned a forecast annual deficit to beyond break even. The financial review notes increased pressures on costs due to strategic development, including a significant additional expense for security.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• 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)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Camrose Centre Basingstoke (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Beth Neal
• Charles Wood
• Dr Andrew Taylor BSc DPhil
• Ian Baker
• Jeannette Welton
• MICHAEL BROWNING
• Saffron Cordery OBE

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

Operates in: Hampshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Maidstone Homeless Care.

• Maidstone Homeless Care income £215k
• QUEENSBURY SUPPORT CENTRE income £57k
• CAPE COMMUNITY CARE DAY CENTRE income £136k
• THE CHARING CROSS CENTRE income £148k
• HARROGATE HOMELESS PROJECT LTD income £1.2m
• BASINGSTOKE NEIGHBOURCARE income £192k

Side by side with its peers

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