THE SINGLE HOMELESS PROJECT

Registered charity 287779 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q7523864

Single Homeless Project is London's leading homelessness charity. We prevent homelessness, provide safe places to live and give over 10,000 people the opportunity to rebuild their lives and transform their futures every year. And we never give up.

Objects

TO PROVIDE RELIEF TO PERSONS IN NEED BY REASON OF AGE, FRAILTY, ILL HEALTH, MENTAL, OR PHYSICAL DISABILITY, POVERTY, SOCIAL OR ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES, OR OTHERWISE THROUGH THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT SERVICES AND OTHER WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL DETERMINE.

Area of benefit: GREATER LONDON AREA

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 Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £326,998 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total unrestricted reserves increasing to £5,323,310. Per the trustees' report, the Board is confident that the charity has sufficient funds to continue as a going concern, supported by a cash balance of £7.11 million and total net assets of £6,976,875.

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
• Investment
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Single Homeless Project (matched by registered charity number).

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)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Advertised salaries (public job ads)

Roles this charity has advertised on CharityJob, matched on the exact employer name. A different source from the statutory pay bands above: these are asking salaries for vacancies, not what anyone was paid.

• Homeless Pathway Coordinator — Starting at £34,127.11 and rising incrementally to £36,947.49 per annum (pro-rata) · Greater London (On-site) · posted 5 days ago (seen 02/09/2026)
• Maintenance Operative — Starting at £30,662.86 and rising incrementally to £33,148.61 per annum · London (On-site) · posted 2 weeks ago (seen 02/09/2026)

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.7 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (94% 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: 1.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (10/05/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Meeta Luthrachair · trustee of 1 other charity
• BHAVIN SHAH · trustee of 2 other charities
• Chinyere Ugwu · trustee of 2 other charities
• Emilie McCarthy
• Ian Adams
• Jasmine Basran
• Priya Javeri
• Sadie Daryan
• Wil Lewis

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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 PROJECT 34.

• PROJECT 34 income £723k
• HARROGATE HOMELESS PROJECT LTD income £1.2m
• SANDWELL HOMELESS AND RESETTLEMENT PROJECT LIMITED income £566k
• HOMELESS ACTION income £3.8m
• HOMELESS SUPPORT PROJECT income £251k
• HELP THE HOMELESS LIMITED income £74k

Side by side with its peers

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