NIGHTWATCH

Registered charity 274925 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Nightwatch provides food, clothing and resettlement goods to homeless and otherwise very poor and vulnerable people.

Objects

CARE AND TREATMENT OF PERSONS IN NEED WHO ARE HOMELESS ROOTLESS OR OTHERWISE THROUGH ADVERSE CIRCUMSTANCES ARE IN NEED OF HELP IN ACQUIRING A SETTLED WAY OF LIFE. ESTABLISHING HOSTELS AND ASSOCIATING WITH OTHER GROUPS IN FURTHERANCE OF THE ABOVE OBJECTS.

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total reserves increased to £139,495, which exceeds the charity's stated policy target of maintaining funds equivalent to nine months' unrestricted expenditure (£67,000). The charity reported a net surplus for the year, with total receipts reaching a record £169,464 against total payments of £108,757.

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

What the accounts disclose

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

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: going-concern doubt noted (FY2024) → no going-concern doubt (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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.

• Complaints handling
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• MR JAD ADAMS MA FRHISTSchair
• Fiona Satiro
• Nana Nketiaa Aquah
• Nicola Louise Edwards
• ROGER DAVIES · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Croydon

Income and spending

Common questions

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 GREENWICH HOMELESS PROJECT.

• GREENWICH HOMELESS PROJECT income £202k
• SUTTON NIGHT WATCH HOMELESS income £264k
• RENEWED HOPE TRUST income £303k
• WARMING UP THE HOMELESS income £542k
• HEALTHWATCH CITY OF LONDON income £98k
• HOLY TRINITY NIGHT SHELTER & COMMUNITY OUTREACH income £79k

Side by side with its peers

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