HOMELESS OXFORDSHIRE LIMITED

Registered charity 297806 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as JULIAN HOUSING, JULIAN HOUSING PROJECT, LUTHER STREET DROP-IN CENTRE, OXFORD HOMELESS MEDICAL FUND, OXFORD HOMELESS PATHWAYS LIMITED, OXFORD NIGHT SHELTER LTD

Homeless Oxfordshire exists to help homeless people by providing accommodation and support towards independence.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS BY THE PROVISION OF:A)EMERGENCY AND SHORT-TERM ACCOMMODATION FOR HOMELESS PEOPLE;B)SUPPORT TO THE RECENTLY RE-HOUSED PEOPLE WHO WERE FORMERLY HOMELESS IN ORDER TO PREVENT FURTHER HOMELESSNESS.

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 Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Oxford, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a surplus of £1.2m in the year, marking a turnaround from previous deficits. Per the trustees' report, free reserves of £1,797,562 were held, which is approximately £300,000 above the stated policy target range of £1,250,000 to £1,500,000. The trustees confirmed adequate resources 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 Gravita Audit Oxford 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
• Campaigns and political activity 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 — Homeless Oxfordshire (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Simon Hewett-Avison — CEO (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold); recorded price paid £1.7m. 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

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

Reported reserves equal ~6.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (87% 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: 5.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anthony Alexander
• Clare Periton
• David Cryer · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Carol Sweetenham
• Francis Webster
• James Boultbee
• Michael Adam Rudd · trustee of 1 other charity
• Natalie McClean
• Pamela Roberts
• Robin Rogers
• Vanessa Ann Ellis

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

Operates in: Oxfordshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with OXFORDSHIRE HOMELESS MOVEMENT.

• OXFORDSHIRE HOMELESS MOVEMENT income £371k
• HOMELESS PEOPLE AND THE OXFORD CHURCHES(GATEHOUSE) income £429k
• THE CITY OF OXFORD CHARITY LIMITED income £443k
• CHESTER AID TO THE HOMELESS income £425k
• HARROGATE HOMELESS PROJECT LTD income £1.2m
• HOMELESS ACTION income £3.8m

Side by side with its peers

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