CAMBRIDGE CYRENIANS LIMITED

Registered charity 261994 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Providing accommodation and support to single, homeless, men and women in Cambridge.

Causes: Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Latest income

£1.7m

Latest spending

£1.6m

Registered

1971

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a surplus of £56.5k, allowing general reserves to build up to £361k. Per the trustees' report, this reserve level is within the stated target range, providing financial resilience despite ongoing challenges in securing specialist funding.

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

What the accounts disclose

Largest income source: none

“Grants and rents fully covered the costs of our core housing services. Additional grant funding of £89k was received for the Personal Budgets Trial, however grant income for some of our other special projects reduced and donations for general purposes fell to £40k.”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Reserves policy: within our target range (held: £361k)

“This result has allowed us to build our general reserves back up to £361k which is within our target range to give us financial resilience.”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

Registered company of the charity Companies House 00992199

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Cambridge Cyrenians (matched by registered charity number).

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

SMITH, Charlotte Alexandra — director, appointed 03/09/2026on trustee list
COOPER, Michelle Claire — director, appointed 26/02/2026on trustee list
SPINAZZOLA, Maria — director, appointed 13/02/2026on trustee list
MCALLISTER, Helen Louise — director, appointed 27/02/2025on trustee list
BISSET, Elizabeth Ellen — director, appointed 27/02/2025on trustee list
ALEXANDER, Christina Dorothy — director, appointed 05/09/2024on trustee list
HAYDEN, Rachel Dorothy Louise — director, appointed 22/07/2024on trustee list
DAFFARN, John Oliver — director, appointed 27/10/2022on trustee list
ROBERTSON, Richard — directoron trustee list
MARTIN, James Derek — secretary, appointed 20/02/2019

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £390k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

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

Total income

£1.7m

Total spending

£1.6m

Cost of raising funds

£60k

Reserves (reported)

£361k

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~2.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (97% 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: 3.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

Elizabeth Ellen Bissetchair
Charlotte Smith
Christina Alexander
Helen McAllister
John Daffarn
Maria Spinazzola
Michelle Cooper
RICHARD ROBERTSON
Rachel Dorothy Louise Hayden

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£1.7m	£1.6m
31/03/2024	£1.6m	£1.5m
31/03/2023	£1.4m	£1.4m
31/03/2022	£1.2m	£1.2m
31/03/2021	£1.3m	£1.2m

Common questions

Is CAMBRIDGE CYRENIANS LIMITED financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity achieved a surplus of £56.5k, allowing general reserves to build up to £361k. Per the trustees' report, this reserve level is within the stated target range, providing financial resilience despite ongoing challenges in securing specialist funding. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds CAMBRIDGE CYRENIANS LIMITED?

Funders whose own accounts filings name CAMBRIDGE CYRENIANS LIMITED as a grant recipient include THE EVELYN TRUST, THE BRITFORD BRIDGE TRUST, THE HOBSON CHARITY LIMITED, THE STRANGWARD TRUST, THE TALISMAN CHARITABLE TRUST.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
THE EVELYN TRUST	FY2023	£87k	Brighter Futures project
THE EVELYN TRUST	FY2022	£87k	Brighter Futures project
THE BRITFORD BRIDGE TRUST	FY2024	£21k	Primary
THE BRITFORD BRIDGE TRUST	FY2025	£15k	Primary
THE HOBSON CHARITY LIMITED	FY2022	£5k	Homeless
THE STRANGWARD TRUST	FY2023	£4k
THE TALISMAN CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2025	£3k
MILLS AND REEVE CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2022	£3k
THE TALISMAN CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2024	£2k
THE TALISMAN CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2022	£1k
THE COLE CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2023	£1k	Care and Social Welfare
THE COLE CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2024	£1k	Care and Social Welfare
THE STRANGWARD TRUST	FY2022	£1k

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
The National Lottery Community Fund	07/11/2024	£19k	Meaningful Activities Project (MAP)
The National Lottery Community Fund	04/11/2021	£281k	Brighter Futures
The National Lottery Community Fund	23/01/2020	£950	Allotment Project Socials
The National Lottery Community Fund	27/06/2019	£10k	Cambridge Cyrenians Community Focus
The National Lottery Community Fund	22/02/2017	£153k	Alternative Futures
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	28/04/2009	£30k	"Homelessness in Cambridge"
The National Lottery Community Fund	27/04/2009	£9k	Ceramics Workshop
The National Lottery Community Fund	09/08/2006	£79k	Older Homeless Project

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' FOUNDATION	1	£370k
THE ACCESS TO JUSTICE FOUNDATION	1	£347k
TRUST FOR LONDON	1	£102k
THE JOHN APTHORP CHARITY	1	£100k
UNITED ST SAVIOUR'S CHARITY	1	£62k
London Homelessness Foundation	1	£30k
THE ELIZABETH AND PRINCE ZAIGER TRUST	1	£28k
PETER SOWERBY FOUNDATION	1	£25k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with COVENTRY CYRENIANS LIMITED.

COVENTRY CYRENIANS LIMITED income £2.3m
CAMBRIDGE HOUSE AND TALBOT income £2.2m
ROYAL CAMBRIDGE HOME LIMITED income £1.6m
JIMMY'S CAMBRIDGE income £2.5m
Cambridgeshire Deaf Association income £1.4m
UNITED CHARITIES OF CAMBRIDGE income £387k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
CAMBRIDGE CYRENIANS LIMITED	£1.7m	—	0	within	—	no doubt
COVENTRY CYRENIANS LIMITED FY2025	£2.3m	£80,001 - £90,000	1	above	—	no doubt
CAMBRIDGE HOUSE AND TALBOT FY2025	£2.2m	—	—	unclear	1.4%	no doubt
ROYAL CAMBRIDGE HOME LIMITED FY2025	£1.6m	£80,001 - £90,000	1	unclear	—	no doubt
JIMMY'S CAMBRIDGE FY2025	£2.5m	more than £60,000	1	unclear	—	no doubt
Cambridgeshire Deaf Association FY2025	£1.4m	£70,001 - £80,000	1	above	—	no doubt

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