CENTREPOINT SOHO

Registered charity 292411 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CENTREPOINT, END YOUTH HOMELESSNESS

Centrepoint is the UK's leading charity for homeless young people. It supports more than 15,000 homeless 16-25 year olds into a home and a job every year. Centrepoint works directly in London, Manchester, Yorkshire and the North East of England, and partners with other organisations across the UK. We also influence government policy with the overall aim of ending youth homelessness.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net income of £5.2 million for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total unrestricted reserves standing at £37.2 million. Per the trustees' report, the organisation holds cash and cash equivalents of £35.8 million and maintains a strong working capital ratio of 5.7:1. The Board has assessed that the financial position is strong and that there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by BDO LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• The Garfield Weston Foundation — “The Garfield Weston Foundation has donated £300,000 to Centrepoint’s Upstream England — our innovative schools-based prevention programme id…” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

117 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (26 freehold); recorded price paid £11.2m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Trustpilot: Centrepoint scores 2.6/5 from 4 reviews (source) — reviews usually concern the charity’s shops or services, not its charitable performance.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (67,978 likes) · instagram (36K followers)

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.4 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 26.1% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (18/10/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (08/12/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (16/09/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (11/01/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (06/11/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (23/04/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Cheryl Ann Avery
• Christopher Wilkins
• Darren Emanuel Douglas
• Edward Henry Lunt
• Emma Fraser
• Michael Hood
• Orla Gallagher
• Stephen Jefford
• THOMAS FRANCIS WOOD
• Tarek Khlat MBE
• Tsion Ashaye Balcha
• Zafrin Sultana Khan-Wheatley

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

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 CENTREPOINT OUTREACH.

• CENTREPOINT OUTREACH income £224k
• CENTRE FOR HOMELESSNESS IMPACT income £10.0m
• NEW HORIZON YOUTH CENTRE income £4.5m
• Your Place (London) Limited income £7.1m
• CENTRE THIRTY THREE YOUNG PEOPLE'S COUNSELLING AND INFORMATION SERVICE income £3.8m
• THE BOOTH CENTRE income £1.5m

Side by side with its peers

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