CAMBRIDGE HOUSE AND TALBOT

Registered charity 265103 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q5025449 · Wikipedia · 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

Objects

TO PROVIDE, PROMOTE, ASSIST AND ENCOURAGE WORK FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OR OF RELIGION, THE RELIEF OF NEED AND OTHER CHARITABLE SOCIAL WORK BENEFICIAL TO THE COMMUNITY, INCLUDING THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF GOOD HEALTH BY RECREATION OR OTHERWISE.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

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

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, which is slightly below the stated policy target of £893,000. The charity reports no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• 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.

Corporate structure

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

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)

Reported reserves equal ~5.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 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 (5.3%) (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

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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

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 UNITED CHARITIES OF CAMBRIDGE.

• UNITED CHARITIES OF CAMBRIDGE income £387k
• CRAWFORD HOUSE COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP income £44k
• CAMBRIDGE RE-USE income £180k
• CAMBRIDGE CANCER HELP CENTRE income £67k
• ROYAL CAMBRIDGE HOME LIMITED income £1.6m
• CAMBRIDGE ONLINE income £166k

Side by side with its peers

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