London Homelessness Foundation

Registered charity 270178 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as L H F, LONDON HOUSING FOUNDATION LTD, THE CENTRAL YMCA HOUSING ASSOCIATION LIMITED

Providing grants both capital and revenue to support agencies seeking to assist the single homeless in the Uk and initiating new projects to provide training, education and business efficency for the homeless sector. Through the wholly owned commercial subsidiary Bramah house Limited, LHF provides affordable office accommodation for related charities and project management for LHF initiatives.

Objects

THE OBJECT FOR WHICH THE ASSOCIATION IS ESTABLISHED IS TO FACILITATE THE RELIEF, FOR THE BENEFIT OF ANY COMMUNITY IN WHICH IT CHOOSES TO WORK, OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS BOTH: (A) THROUGH THE PROVISION OF HOUSING, HOSTEL ACCOMMODATION AND ANY ASSOCIATED AMENITIES FOR PERSONS IN NECESSITOUS CIRCUMSTANCES UPON TERMS APPROPRIATE TO THEIR MEANS; AND (B) BY ANY OTHER MEANS THAT THE TRUSTEES MAY DEEM FIT FROM TIME TO TIME INCLUDING, BUT NOT ONLY BY PROVIDING GRANTS, ITEMS AND SERVICES TO INDIVIDUALS IN NEED AND/OR CHARITIES OR OTHER ORGANISATIONS WORKING TO PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS

Area of benefit: LONDON AND ELSEWHERE

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 · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The charity holds substantial free unrestricted reserves of £15.7 million, significantly exceeding its stated policy of maintaining at least £500,000 in liquid deposits. Total net assets stood at £15.7 million, supported by £14.6 million in quoted investments and £1.0 million in cash, against a small pension scheme deficit liability of £77,000. The trustees confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Price Bailey LLP. Discloses 5 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 14/05/2024, 104 days after the 31/01/2024 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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~228.6 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (100% 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: 2.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• CLARE MILLER ACA
• Councillor Eleanor Lesley Stringer · trustee of 1 other charity
• DEREK JOSEPH
• Eloise Catherine Shepherd
• IAN BRADY
• JOHN RICHARD STEBBING · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kendra Schneller · trustee of 1 other charity
• Lydia Lewinson
• NICHOLAS LIONEL HARDWICK · trustee of 4 other charities
• Pamela Joan Orchard
• SIMON DOW

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• THE LOFTHOUSE FOUNDATION income £82.3m
• LANCASTER & DISTRICT HOMELESS ACTION SERVICE LIMITED income £219k
• HOMELESS HAMPERS income £23k
• THE SINGLE HOMELESS PROJECT income £44.0m
• HOMES FOR THE HOMELESS (LEICESTERSHIRE) LIMITED income £37k
• THE LONDON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £9.3m

Side by side with its peers

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