PHOENIX HOUSE

Registered charity 284880 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PHOENIX FUTURES · also registered in Scotland as SC039008 (OSCR)

The principal activity of the Company, a registered charity and social landlord, is providing services for those suffering addictions relating to drugs and alcohol in residential, community and prison services and working with service users and their families/carers in socially deprived communities to create a range of positive outcomes. To include health, crime, education, employment and housing.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Accommodation/housing · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a total income of £27.7m and reported an operating surplus of £1.2m for the year ended 31 March 2025. Per the trustees' report, the charity maintains free reserves of £21.3m, which is above its stated policy target of £6.8m, and the going concern basis of accounting continues to be adopted.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Beever & Struthers. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01626869

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.

• O'NEILL, Stephen Patrick — director, appointed 11/12/2025on trustee list
• BLACK, Henry — director, appointed 05/12/2024on trustee list
• MATTISON, Marcus, Dr — director, appointed 05/12/2024on trustee list
• WANIGARATNE, Shamil David, Dr — director, appointed 05/12/2024on trustee list
• NORTON, Janina Michelle — director, appointed 13/12/2023on trustee list
• COTTRELL, Alison Mary — director, appointed 13/12/2023on trustee list
• SHORE, Catherine — director, appointed 13/12/2023on trustee list
• HILL, Richard — director, appointed 08/12/2022on trustee list
• KEANEY, Francis, Dr — director, appointed 17/03/2022on trustee list
• WOLLASTON, Helen Ruth — director, appointed 17/03/2022on trustee list
• MACKIE, David Nicol — director, appointed 28/11/2019on trustee list
• WATSON, Ian James — director, appointed 12/12/2017on trustee list

Official officers record.

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

Property (HM Land Registry)

18 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (13 freehold); recorded price paid £2.6m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: Phoenix House — Registered, 9 registered locations, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 06/08/2019.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~9.6 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (90% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Care Quality Commission ratings

CQC inspection ratings for services run by a provider matching this charity’s name (matched by name; verify provider identity on CQC’s site).

• Phoenix Futures National Specialist Family Service: Good (22/01/2019) · CQC record
• Phoenix Futures Wirral Residential Service: Outstanding (24/07/2026) · CQC record
• New Oakwood Lodge, Phoenix Futures Derbyshire Residential Service: Good (02/04/2026) · CQC record

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (30/12/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (06/02/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (05/02/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Richard Hillchair · trustee of 3 other charities
• Alison Cottrell · trustee of 1 other charity
• Catherine Shore
• David Nicol Mackie
• Dr Francis Keaney
• Dr Marcus Mattison
• Dr Shamil David Wanigaratne
• Helen Ruth Wollaston
• Henry Black
• IAN WATSON
• Janina Norton
• Stephen Patrick O'Neill

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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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 PHOENIX COMMUNITY CARE LIMITED.

• PHOENIX COMMUNITY CARE LIMITED income £2.2m
• PHOENIX WOMEN'S AID income £1.2m
• THE PHOENIX TRUST (MILTON) LTD income £256k
• The Alongside Charity income £11.2m
• PHOENIX SOCIAL ENTERPRISE LIMITED income £476k
• RUSH HOUSE LTD income £1.3m

Side by side with its peers

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