BARONS COURT PROJECT

Registered charity 296034 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Project provides services for people vulnerable through mental health problems, homelessness in Hammersmith and Fulham area. The principal activity of The Project is to run a Drop-In Day Center at its operational address and to provide practical, supportive and empowering services to vulnerable people.

Objects

RELIEF OF POVERTY FOR THOSE WITH PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS, HOMELESS PEOPLE WHO ARE POOR.

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: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Hammersmith and Fulham, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state a net surplus of £30,454 for the year, with free unrestricted reserves standing at £130,565. The trustees report that this financial position secures the charity's immediate future for the next 12 months. However, the free reserves are below the stated policy target of three months of running costs.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Homes England. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• 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
• 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 — Barons Court Project (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).

• London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham — “This was achieved by the generous support of London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, as well as many companies and individuals who pledged…” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title 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.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (59% 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: 12.7% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew McColl
• Caryn Van Niekerk
• Edward Simpson
• Michael Edward Pope
• Shauleen Mpofu
• Sian Richards
• Sue Fennimore
• Yvonee Obuaya

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

Operates in: Hammersmith And Fulham

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 THE TOWER PROJECT.

• THE TOWER PROJECT income £4.7m
• THE BROOMGROVE TRUST income £2.7m
• HOUSE PROJECT CENTRE income £160k
• BARNET COMMUNITY PROJECTS income £113k
• THE SOUTHCOURT AND WALTON COURT COMMUNITY PROJECT income £109k
• THE BRADFORD COURT CHAPLAINCY SERVICE income £28k

Side by side with its peers

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