PORCHLIGHT

Registered charity 267116 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CANTERBURY CYRENIANS LIMITED, EAST KENT CYRENIANS LIMITED

Porchlight is an independent registered charity working across Kent, East Sussex and Bexley. We help vulnerable and isolated people get support with their mental health, housing, education and employment. We provide children, young people and adults with the advice, guidance and skills to live independently in the future, play an active role in their local community and fulfil their potential.

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £1.4 million for the year, resulting in a reduction of total net assets to £2.6 million. The trustees have confirmed the going concern basis is appropriate, citing secure long-term contracts and property assets, with forecasts predicting a return to surplus in the following year.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by RSM UK Audit LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (79% 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: 5.1% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (24/02/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (22/10/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (07/02/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anna Linstead
• Anne Chapman · trustee of 1 other charity
• Claire Ellis-Waghorn
• Danica McLean
• Dr Jenny Robson
• Dr Nicholas Ward
• Emily Vince
• Patrick Fuller
• Stephanie Goad
• Thomas Abbott
• Timothy Child

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

Operates in: Bexley · East Sussex · Kent

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE PORCH.

• THE PORCH income £394k
• LIGHTHOUSE HOMES income £1.5m
• HOUSE OF LIGHT income £838k
• LIGHTHOUSE - SUPPORTING WOMEN THROUGH STORMY TIMES income £231k
• LIGHTHOUSE (WEST YORKSHIRE) income £164k
• PILOTLIGHT income £1.7m

Side by side with its peers

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