FRIENDS OF THE HOMELESS IN FAREHAM AND GOSPORT

Registered charity 1194360 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FAREHAM AND GOSPORT BASICS BANK, FRIENDS OF THE HOMELESS IN FAREHAM & GOSPORT

Provision of short run food support through two food banks

Objects

THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AMONGST HOMELESS PERSONS, THOSE AT RISK OF HOMELESSNESS, AND THOSE ON LOW INCOME WHO ARE SUFFERING FINANCIAL HARDSHIP (HEREINAFTER CALLED "THOSE IN NEED") PRIMARILY WITHIN THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES OF AREA OF FAREHAM AND GOSPORT IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY:FURTHERING AND PROMOTING THE STUDY OF AND RESEARCH INTO ALL ASPECTS AND METHODS OF THE PREVENTION OF HOMELESSNESS, AND TO OBTAIN AND MAKE RECORDS OF AND DISSEMINATE INFORMATION CONCERNING THE SAME.PROMOTING, SUPPORTING OR CARRYING ON EITHER ALONE OR IN CO-OPERATION WITH ANY BODY, AUTHORITY OR PERSON, ANY PROJECT OR SCHEME TO OVERCOME HOMELESSNESS AND TO RELIEVE HARDSHIP OF "THOSE IN NEED".

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: Fareham, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £1,765 for the year ended 31 May 2025, resulting in a decrease in net assets from £168,488 to £166,723. Despite a decline in food and toiletry donations, the charity remained self-sufficient due to generous financial support from donors. The independent examiner confirmed that the accounts accord with the accounting records and comply with the Charities Act 2011.

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
• 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
• 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.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (08/07/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Elizabeth Jayne Dent
• JENNIFER ANN BROBEN-DARNEY
• Jane Chamberlain · trustee of 1 other charity
• Julie Rood
• KENNETH DOUGLAS GULSON
• PHILIP LANGLEY RUTT · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Hampshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with FRIEND AND FAMILY OF HIGHFIELDS AND/OR F.F.H.

• FRIEND AND FAMILY OF HIGHFIELDS AND/OR F.F.H income £35k
• GIFTINGHUMANITY income £95k
• FRIENDS OF FIRS FARM income £27k
• FURNESS HOMELESS SUPPORT GROUP income £285k
• FRIENDS FOUNDATION income £103k
• THE FRIENDS OF MOAT MOUNT CAMP SITE income £54k

Side by side with its peers

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