THIRD HOUSE

Registered charity 253794 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THIRD HOUSE TRUST

To give financial assistance to those small charitable organisations engaged in the positive rehabilitation of ex-offenders or persons with mental health problems, who find it difficult to access funding from the statutory authorities.

Objects

FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING AND THE PROMOTION OF THE MORAL AND SPIRITUAL WELL BEING OF PRISONERS WHICH EXPRESSION SHALL MEAN PERSONS WHO ARE SUFFERING OR HAVE SUFFERED A LEGAL RESTRICTION ON THEIR LIBERTY IN ANY PENAL OR CORRECTIONAL ESTABLISHMENT OR THROUGH ANY MEANS WHATSOEVER AND SHALL INCLUDE PERSONS LATELY DISCHARGED FROM NORMAN HOUSE AND SECOND HOUSE AND SECONDLY AT THE DISCRETION OF THE TRUSTEES IN THE RELIEF OF PERSONS IN NECESSITOUS CIRCUMSTANCES.

Area of benefit: UNRESTRICTED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Economic/community Development/employment · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit for the year, with total expenditure of £36,421 exceeding total receipts of £34,705. However, the fund balance carried forward remains substantial at £888,630, supported by significant investment assets totaling £806,263.

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 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.

• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investment

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, 4 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2024 (received 18/03/2025, 46 days after the 31/01/2025 due date); year ending 31/03/2023 (received 25/03/2024, 54 days after the 31/01/2024 due date); year ending 31/03/2022 (received 31/03/2023, 59 days after the 31/01/2023 due date); year ending 31/03/2021 (received 01/03/2022, 29 days after the 31/01/2022 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• HAROLD JOSEPH BERMAN
• MARK TAYLOR
• Patrick Nicholson

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SUPPORTING COMMUNITIES.

• SUPPORTING COMMUNITIES income £176k
• REHABIT income £53k
• MENTAL HEALTH UK income £3.0m
• THE ALCOHOL AND DRUG SERVICE income £5.4m
• CRH CHARITABLE TRUST income £395k
• SELWORTHY HOUSE ADDICTION RECOVERY ENTERPRISE income £415k

Side by side with its peers

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