HOUSING JUSTICE

Registered charity 294666 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q16845039 · also known as C H A S, CATHOLIC HOUSING AID SOCIETY CHURCHES NATIONAL HOUSIN, CATHOLIC HOUSING AID SOCIETY DEVELOPMENT FUND, CHAS THE CATHOLIC HOUSING AID SOCIETY, HOUSING JUSTICE (CATHOLIC HOUSING AID SOCIETY) · also registered in Scotland as SC053819 (OSCR)

Supports churches, agencies and individuals to engage with homelessness and housing issues and equips them with the skills and knowledge required to develop the capacities necessary to respond meaningfully to the needs of people who are homeless as well as others who are in housing need.

Objects

TO RELIEVE POVERTY AND DISTRESS (FOR FURTHER DETAILS, SEE CLAUSE 3 OF MEMORANDUM AMENDED 20TH FEBRUARY 1995)

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 · Accommodation/housing · Religious Activities · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a surplus of £426,378, resulting in total unrestricted reserves of £990,201. Per the trustees' report, these general reserves of £690,201 are above the newly adopted policy range of £429,072 to £612,893. The trustees confirmed that the financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Dux Advisory Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "within" (FY2024) to "above" (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.

• 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 — Housing Justice (matched by registered charity number).

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.2 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 2.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (21/02/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (26/08/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev ROB WICKHAMchair
• Aidan Dwan
• Bishop John David Edward Davies · trustee of 1 other charity
• Glynys Litten Sykes
• James Evans · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jane Marie Fowler
• Nanou Thassinda
• Sarah Howard-Jones
• Suzanne Catherine Davis
• Zoe Rossi

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

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 JUSTUS.

• JUSTUS income £47k
• HOMELESS ACTION income £3.8m
• JUSTICE income £1.7m
• JUST HOMES CHARITY income £1.9m
• CHELTENHAM HOUSING AID CENTRE income £252k
• SOCIAL CARE HOUSING TRUST income £831k

Side by side with its peers

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