CAMBRIDGE HOUSE AND TALBOT

Registered charity 265103 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CAMBRIDGE HOUSE

Cambridge House is a social action centre that works with vulnerable individuals, families and communities to tackle the injustice of poverty. Services include1. Education & respite 2. Youth empowerment 3. Employment & volunteering 4. Legal, advice & advocacy 5. Community enterprise facilities, offices, & meeting spaces

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Latest income

£2.2m

Latest spending

£2.1m

Registered

1973

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity returned a financial surplus of £77,714 for the year ended 31 March 2025, reversing previous deficits. Per the trustees' report, free (cash) reserves stood at £892,814, meeting the stated policy target of £893K to provide unrestricted funds for business continuity and disaster recovery needs.

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

What the accounts disclose

Largest income source: Statutory contracts and spot purchasing (38% of income)

“Statutory contracts and spot purchasing generated earned income of £842,589”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Fundraising cost ratio: 1.4% of fundraised income, as disclosed

“Fundraising 3p (4p in 2024)”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Reserves policy: Free (cash) reserves of £893K (held: £893k)

“Trustees completed a risk-based review of our reserves policy during the year to ensure that we establish the following reserve targets which we have achieved: Free (cash) reserves of £893K” — page 25

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Related-party transaction: Macfarlanes LLP provided pro bono legal services worth an estimated £1,360 in the prior year; the current year value is stated as NIL. Stephanie Tidball, a trustee until Sept 2024, is an employee of Macfarlanes LLP.

“Stephanie Tidball (a trustee to September 2024) is an employee of Macfarlanes LLP. During the year Cambridge House and Talbot received pro bono advice and legal services from Macfarlanes LLP worth an estimated NIL (£1,360 in 2024). This has been included in the statement of financial activities under donations.” — page 55

“Simon Latham, Chair of trustees, is an employee of the City of London Corporation and Acting Managing Director of City Bridge Foundation. Cambridge House is currently in receipt of a grant from City Bridge Foundation. Simon Latham has notified City of London Corporation of his trusteeship of Cambridge House, holds no decision-making responsibilities in respect of the City Bridge Foundation grant to Cambridge House, and will recuse himself if matters are raised in respect of Cambridge House’s grant at any relevant management board.” — page 55

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Related-party transaction: Simon Latham, Chair, is an employee of City Bridge Foundation (and City of London Corporation). Cambridge House receives a grant from City Bridge Foundation. Simon Latham recuses himself from decisions regarding this grant.

“Stephanie Tidball (a trustee to September 2024) is an employee of Macfarlanes LLP. During the year Cambridge House and Talbot received pro bono advice and legal services from Macfarlanes LLP worth an estimated NIL (£1,360 in 2024). This has been included in the statement of financial activities under donations.” — page 55

“Simon Latham, Chair of trustees, is an employee of the City of London Corporation and Acting Managing Director of City Bridge Foundation. Cambridge House is currently in receipt of a grant from City Bridge Foundation. Simon Latham has notified City of London Corporation of his trusteeship of Cambridge House, holds no decision-making responsibilities in respect of the City Bridge Foundation grant to Cambridge House, and will recuse himself if matters are raised in respect of Cambridge House’s grant at any relevant management board.” — page 55

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Related-party transaction: Simon Latham, Chair, is a common trustee of London Funders who deliver the London Propel grant. Cambridge House receives a grant from London Propel. Simon Latham recuses himself from decisions regarding this grant.

“Stephanie Tidball (a trustee to September 2024) is an employee of Macfarlanes LLP. During the year Cambridge House and Talbot received pro bono advice and legal services from Macfarlanes LLP worth an estimated NIL (£1,360 in 2024). This has been included in the statement of financial activities under donations.” — page 55

“Simon Latham, Chair of trustees, is an employee of the City of London Corporation and Acting Managing Director of City Bridge Foundation. Cambridge House is currently in receipt of a grant from City Bridge Foundation. Simon Latham has notified City of London Corporation of his trusteeship of Cambridge House, holds no decision-making responsibilities in respect of the City Bridge Foundation grant to Cambridge House, and will recuse himself if matters are raised in respect of Cambridge House’s grant at any relevant management board.” — page 55

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Related-party transaction: Karin Woodley, Chief Executive, is a co-opted member of City Bridge Foundation’s Funding Panel. Cambridge House receives a grant from City Bridge Foundation. Karin Woodley recuses herself from decisions regarding this grant.

“Stephanie Tidball (a trustee to September 2024) is an employee of Macfarlanes LLP. During the year Cambridge House and Talbot received pro bono advice and legal services from Macfarlanes LLP worth an estimated NIL (£1,360 in 2024). This has been included in the statement of financial activities under donations.” — page 55

“Simon Latham, Chair of trustees, is an employee of the City of London Corporation and Acting Managing Director of City Bridge Foundation. Cambridge House is currently in receipt of a grant from City Bridge Foundation. Simon Latham has notified City of London Corporation of his trusteeship of Cambridge House, holds no decision-making responsibilities in respect of the City Bridge Foundation grant to Cambridge House, and will recuse himself if matters are raised in respect of Cambridge House’s grant at any relevant management board.” — page 55

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Pension scheme deficit: £3k

“Present value of provision 31 March 2025 £ 2,929”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

Registered company of the charity Companies House 01050006
Trading subsidiary: ENTERPRISE AT CAMBRIDGE HOUSE LIMITED Companies House 06740813

ENTERPRISE AT CAMBRIDGE HOUSE LIMITED — per its own Companies House accounts

No intra-group transactions or balances are disclosed as the company is dormant.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Karin Woodley — Chief Executive (source)
Simon Latham — Chair (source)
Karen Bayne — Director (source)
Katie Evans — Director (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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.

TROUSDALE, Tara Leigh Joan — director, appointed 14/09/2023on trustee list
ADENAIKE, Felix Aderemi — director, appointed 14/09/2023on trustee list
BRAZELL, Shadi Mireskandari — director, appointed 14/09/2023on trustee list
DELANY, Ivan Matthew — director, appointed 14/09/2023on trustee list
DIAMOND, Patrick — director, appointed 14/09/2023on trustee list
HALL, Suzanne Karen — director, appointed 14/09/2023on trustee list
HUSSAIN, Raja Sagheer — director, appointed 14/09/2023on trustee list
HINES, Clarissa Anne Sara — director, appointed 22/03/2018not on trustee list
LATHAM, Simon David — director, appointed 18/05/2017on trustee list
WOODLEY, Karin — secretary, appointed 27/06/2024

Official officers record.

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

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

Total income

£2.2m

Total spending

£2.1m

Cost of raising funds

£86k

Reserves (reported)

£893k

Employees

52

Reported reserves equal ~5.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (96% 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: 3.9% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

Received assets from another charity (06/04/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

Clarissa Anne Sara Lyons
FELIX ADEREMI ADENAIKE
Ivan Matthew Delany
Patrick Diamond
Raja Sagheer Hussain
Shadi Mireskandari Brazell
Simon David Latham
Suzanne Karen Hall
Tara Leigh Joan Trousdale

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£2.2m	£2.1m
31/03/2024	£1.8m	£1.9m
31/03/2023	£1.7m	£2.1m
31/03/2022	£3.4m	£1.9m
31/03/2021	£2.1m	£2.0m

Common questions

Is CAMBRIDGE HOUSE AND TALBOT financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity returned a financial surplus of £77,714 for the year ended 31 March 2025, reversing previous deficits. Per the trustees' report, free (cash) reserves stood at £892,814, meeting the stated policy target of £893K to provide unrestricted funds for business continuity and disaster recovery needs. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Sayer Vincent LLP.

Who funds CAMBRIDGE HOUSE AND TALBOT?

Funders whose own accounts filings name CAMBRIDGE HOUSE AND TALBOT as a grant recipient include GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' FOUNDATION, THE ACCESS TO JUSTICE FOUNDATION, TRUST FOR LONDON, UNITED ST SAVIOUR'S CHARITY, London Homelessness Foundation.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' FOUNDATION	FY2023	£370k	Impact on Urban Health
THE ACCESS TO JUSTICE FOUNDATION	FY2024	£273k	Grants
TRUST FOR LONDON	FY2023	£102k	This grant funded research into London’s shadow private rented sector
THE ACCESS TO JUSTICE FOUNDATION	FY2023	£44k	Grants & Donations
UNITED ST SAVIOUR'S CHARITY	FY2024	£40k	Funding the RISE Youth Service
UNITED ST SAVIOUR'S CHARITY	FY2023	£22k	Funding the RISE Youth Service for Southwark young people.
London Homelessness Foundation	FY2022	£20k	Agency Support
THE ELIZABETH AND PRINCE ZAIGER TRUST	FY2024	£20k
THE ACCESS TO JUSTICE FOUNDATION	FY2021	£17k
THE ACCESS TO JUSTICE FOUNDATION	FY2022	£12k
CHARTERHOUSE-IN-SOUTHWARK	FY2023	£10k
London Homelessness Foundation	FY2023	£10k
CHARTERHOUSE-IN-SOUTHWARK	FY2022	£10k
THE ELIZABETH AND PRINCE ZAIGER TRUST	FY2022	£4k
THE ELIZABETH AND PRINCE ZAIGER TRUST	FY2023	£4k
Newcomen Collett Educational Foundation	FY2023	£1k	Other Grants
Newcomen Collett Educational Foundation	FY2022	£1k	Projects/Equipment
SIR ROBERT GEFFERY'S ALMSHOUSE TRUST	FY2023	£1k	Grant funding of activities
SIR ROBERT GEFFERY'S ALMSHOUSE TRUST	FY2022	£300	Relief in Need
London Homelessness Foundation	FY2024	£0

Government & lottery funding

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

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
City Bridge Foundation	10/03/2025	£56k	Grant to Cambridge House and Talbot
The National Lottery Community Fund	22/01/2025	£512k	Propel NDYP Cambridge House and Talbot
London Borough of Southwark	31/03/2023	£4k	Grant to Cambridge House
London Borough of Southwark	31/03/2023	£18k	Grant to Cambridge House
City Bridge Foundation	17/10/2022	£110k	Grant to Cambridge House and Talbot
London Borough of Southwark	31/03/2022	£18k	Grant to Cambridge House
London Borough of Southwark	31/03/2022	£3k	Grant to Cambridge House
UK government	23/07/2020	£72k	Coronavirus Community Support Fund
London Borough of Southwark	01/04/2020	£2k	Grant to Cambridge House
London Borough of Southwark	01/04/2020	£5k	Grant to Cambridge House
London Borough of Southwark	01/04/2020	£10k	Grant to Cambridge House
London Borough of Southwark	01/04/2020	£5k	Grant to Cambridge House
London Borough of Southwark	01/04/2020	£18k	Grant to Cambridge House
The National Lottery Community Fund	02/03/2020	£205k	Pathways to Empowerment: Navigating Southwark's Care System
Greater London Authority	29/01/2020	£5k	Grant to Cambridge House
City Bridge Foundation	18/10/2019	£2k	Eco audit to Cambridge House and Talbot
London Borough of Southwark	01/04/2019	£18k	Grant to Cambridge House
Greater London Authority	01/10/2018	£140k	Young Londoners Fund
City Bridge Foundation	06/07/2018	£147k	Grant to Cambridge House and Talbot
London Borough of Southwark	01/04/2018	£14k	Grant to Cambridge House
London Borough of Southwark	01/04/2017	£14k	Grant to Cambridge House
London Borough of Southwark	01/04/2016	£14k	Grant to Cambridge House
Greater London Authority	12/01/2015	£2k	Grant to Cambridge House
City Bridge Foundation	20/10/2011	£45k	Grant to Cambridge House and Talbot
City Bridge Foundation	11/11/2010	£5k	Grant to Cambridge House and Talbot

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
THE EVELYN TRUST	2	£262k
MILLS AND REEVE CHARITABLE TRUST	2	£10k
THE JOHN APTHORP CHARITY	1	£100k
THE BRITFORD BRIDGE TRUST	1	£36k
PETER SOWERBY FOUNDATION	1	£25k
THE TALISMAN CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£6k
THE HOBSON CHARITY LIMITED	1	£5k
THE STRANGWARD TRUST	1	£5k

Charities like this

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

CAMBRIDGE CYRENIANS LIMITED income £1.7m
ROYAL CAMBRIDGE HOME LIMITED income £1.6m
UNITED CHARITIES OF CAMBRIDGE income £387k
THE ROYAL CAMBRIDGE HOME income £12.4m
JIMMY'S CAMBRIDGE income £2.5m
THE CAMDEN SOCIETY income £8.5m

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
CAMBRIDGE HOUSE AND TALBOT	£2.2m	—	—	unclear	1.4%	no doubt
CAMBRIDGE CYRENIANS LIMITED FY2025	£1.7m	—	0	within	—	no doubt
ROYAL CAMBRIDGE HOME LIMITED FY2025	£1.6m	£80,001 - £90,000	1	unclear	—	no doubt
UNITED CHARITIES OF CAMBRIDGE FY2025	£387k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
THE ROYAL CAMBRIDGE HOME FY2025	£12.4m	£80,001 - £90,000	1	unclear	—	no doubt
JIMMY'S CAMBRIDGE FY2025	£2.5m	more than £60,000	1	unclear	—	no doubt

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