HELP FOR HOMELESS

Registered charity 1189539 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Help for Homeless provides vital support to the homeless on the streets of towns or cities in the South West. With help from its network of volunteers help for HOMELESS goes onto the streets and distributes from a van essentials including; bedding, tents, clothing, sanitaryware and food.

Objects

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, THE RELIEF OF POVERTY BY PROVIDING ASSISTANCE TO PEOPLE IN NEED IN THE SOUTH WEST OF ENGLAND IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY WHO ARE STREET HOMELESS PEOPLE AND THOSE IN NEED WHO LIVE IN SHORT TERM/TEMPORARY ACCOMMODATION SUCH AS HOSTELS, SHELTERS AND SUPPORTED HOUSING BY PROVIDING 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 · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £20,480 for the year ended 30 September 2025, with unrestricted income of £66,031 against total expenditure of £45,551. Net assets increased to £182,931, comprising £115,421 in unrestricted funds and £67,510 in restricted funds. The trustees confirmed that accounting records were kept and the accounts accorded with those records during the independent examination.

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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• 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

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 30/09/2022 (received 31/07/2023, 1 day after the 30/07/2023 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Help For HOMELESS (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

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

• The Country Food Trust — “The Country Food Trust Nutritious cassaroles and curries in a pouch.” (source page)

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (17/04/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Peter Francis Whitechair
• Emma Bleaney
• Rosanna Iona White

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

Operates in: Bath And North East Somerset · Bristol City · Cornwall · Devon · Dorset · North Somerset · Somerset · South Gloucestershire · Wiltshire

Income and spending

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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 HOMELESS ACTION.

• HOMELESS ACTION income £3.8m
• HELP THE HOMELESS LEICESTER income £289k
• HELP THE HOMELESS LIMITED income £74k
• CHESTER AID TO THE HOMELESS income £425k
• HOMELESS HAMPERS income £23k
• HARROGATE HOMELESS PROJECT LTD income £1.2m

Side by side with its peers

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