MAGGS DAY CENTRE

Registered charity 700852 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Maggs provides a centre and ancillary support for people in material or emotional need, and/or who feel socially isolated, and/or who are homeless, or at risk of becoming homeless, in Worcester and its surrounding area.

Objects

For the public benefit to promote the relief of suffering in such ways as the Charity shall from time to time think fit, and in particular (but without prejudice to the generality of such object):- a) to promote by the establishment of care and support and counselling the relief of persons irrespective of their gender, age, sexual orientation, religion or ethnic origin who are suffering from loneliness or from poverty or from any disability or disease attributable to loneliness and to establish maintain and manage a shelter or centre and all ancillary services for such persons including, for the avoidance of doubt, persons who are homeless.b) by conducting or promoting or encouraging research into care and treatment of persons suffering from loneliness, poverty, disability or disease as aforesaid and particularly into the care and treatment of persons so suffering and to disseminate the results thereof. c) by promoting or encouraging or assisting in the teaching or training of counsellors and advisers for the treatment and care of persons suffering from loneliness and the effects thereof.d) by working collaboratively with and for those suffering from the conditions of loneliness and / or poverty by providing and signposting services which help alleviate the effects attributable to those conditions in order to encourage longer term independence.

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: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Worcester, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that Maggs Day Centre reported a net deficit of £120,865 for the year, a reduction from the previous year's deficit of £133,180. Total free reserves stood at £140,662, which the trustees acknowledge is below their stated policy target of three to six months of expenditure, though they attribute the reduction to investment in tangible assets intended to sustain the organization long-term.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Richards Sandy Audit Services Limited. Discloses 5 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
• 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
• 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)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold); recorded price paid £437k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.6 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 7.4% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (23/06/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Helen Thompson
• Ian David Smith
• Jenny Sawyer
• John Curtis
• Stephen Collman

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

Operates in: Herefordshire · Worcestershire

Income and spending

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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

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Maidstone Homeless Care.

• Maidstone Homeless Care income £215k
• TOGS CENTRE income £124k
• HOMELESS ACTION IN BARNET income £548k
• SUICIDE CRISIS income £12k
• THAXTED DAY CENTRE income £49k
• MAGPAS income £5.6m

Side by side with its peers

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