HESTIA HOUSING AND SUPPORT
Registered charity 294555 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register
Hestia delivers high quality & empowering housing, support, protection & care services in partnership with service users & local communities in 22 London boroughs. Hestia provides services to people with mental health needs, physical disability, substance misusers, offenders, women & children fleeing domestic abuse, older & young people, personal budget holders & other wider community groups.
Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Accommodation/housing · Economic/community Development/employment · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity generated an operating surplus of £568,000 and holds total unrestricted reserves of £18.015 million. Per the trustees' report, the actual free reserves of £15.0 million exceed the stated minimum policy target of £13.0 million, which is calculated as three months of operating costs. The auditor confirmed 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
Trading subsidiary: Twining Enterprise Limited
“Twining Enterprise (Twining), the wholly owned subsidiary of Hestia was fully integrated into the Hestia business on 31 March 2025.” — page 5
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.
Corporate structure
Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Hestia Housing and Support (matched by registered charity number).
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.
- WOOD, Charlotte Mary — director, appointed 14/07/2026on trustee list
- BEKBOLET, Zeynep Cagla — director, appointed 02/12/2025on trustee list
- ROMEO, Lynette Pauline — director, appointed 22/10/2024on trustee list
- GOULD, Jessamy Rose — director, appointed 22/10/2024on trustee list
- RAWLINSON, Roger Geoffrey — director, appointed 01/02/2024on trustee list
- GIBB, Moira Margaret, Dame — director, appointed 25/09/2023on trustee list
- CERNICA, Mariana Catalina — director, appointed 13/09/2023on trustee list
- SARSFIELD, Brendan Patrick — director, appointed 23/03/2021on trustee list
- MEEK, Elizabeth Jane — director, appointed 06/10/2020on trustee list
- FERRIERE, Francois — secretary, appointed 01/12/2025
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)
12 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (8 freehold); recorded price paid £1.3m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.
CQC provider record: Hestia Housing and Support — Registered, 10 registered locations, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 06/11/2023.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record
Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (3,060 likes) · instagram (3,991 followers)
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)
Cost of raising funds
£388k
Reserves (reported)
£16.8m
Reported reserves equal ~3.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (97% 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: 0.7% 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).
- Lynton Terrace: Requires improvement (01/11/2023) · CQC record
- Harwood Road: Good (14/12/2023) · CQC record
- Coxley House: Good (24/09/2019) · CQC record
Register events
- Received assets from another charity (09/12/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Received assets from another charity (20/05/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- DAME MOIRA GIBBchair
- Ailsing Thompson
- Brendan Sarsfield
- Charlotte Mary Wood
- Elizabeth Meek
- Jessamy Rose Gould
- Joanna Mark-Richards
- Lynette Romeo
- Mariana Catalina Cernica
- Roger Geoffrey Rawlinson
- Zeynep Cagla Bekbolet
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Throughout London
Income and spending
Common questions
Is HESTIA HOUSING AND SUPPORT financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity generated an operating surplus of £568,000 and holds total unrestricted reserves of £18.015 million. Per the trustees' report, the actual free reserves of £15.0 million exceed the stated minimum policy target of £13.0 million, which is calculated as three months of operating costs. The auditor confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Sayer Vincent LLP.
Who funds HESTIA HOUSING AND SUPPORT?
Funders whose own accounts filings name HESTIA HOUSING AND SUPPORT as a grant recipient include DAVID & RUTH LEWIS FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST, THE EQUINOXE TRUST, THE CAMPDEN CHARITIES TRUSTEE, THE HOBSON CHARITY LIMITED, MERTON VOLUNTARY SERVICE COUNCIL.
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 HOUSING FOR WOMEN.
Side by side with its peers
Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.