IMPAKT HOUSING & SUPPORT

Registered charity 801035 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as Y M C A BEDFORDSHIRE

Area of work:Housing homelessness people and women and children fleeing domestic abuse.Skills4 courses providing help, training, and practical support. F4YP support for marginalised kids4mation - social enterprise helping to alleviate poverty by supplying affordable furniture.Food 4 - providing fruit, veg & bakery items to people on benefits from a broad cross section.

Objects

3.1 TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION AND OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION FOR ALL PERSONS WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.3.2 TO PROVIDE HOUSING, INCLUDING SOCIAL HOUSING, AND ASSISTANCE TO HELP HOUSE PEOPLE AND ASSOCIATED FACILITIES, AMENITIES AND SERVICES FOR POOR PEOPLE OR FOR THE RELIEF OF AGED, DIFFERENTLY-ABLED (WHETHER PHYSICALLY OR MENTALLY) OR CHRONICALLY SICK PEOPLE.3.3 TO CARRY OUT ANY OTHER CHARITABLE OBJECT THAT MAY BE CARRIED OUT FROM TIME TO TIME BY A CHARITABLE COMPANY WHICH IS ALSO REGISTERED AS A PROVIDER OF SOCIAL HOUSING WITH THE REGULATOR.

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 Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Amateur Sport · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bedford, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a net surplus of £159,148 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with unrestricted reserves totaling £1,685,446. Per the trustees' report, these reserves are equivalent to 3.5 months of annual operating expenditure, meeting the stated policy target of three months. The auditors confirmed that the financial statements are 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 Rawlinson Pryde Ltd. 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
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 05/02/2024, 5 days after the 31/01/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• IMPAKT Housing & Support steps in to secure homes for over 180 residents in Northamptonshire northamptonchron.co.uk · 01/09/2025

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02337961

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — IMPAKT Housing & 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.

• KOHLER, David Anthony — director, appointed 29/09/2025on trustee list
• LYMER, Mark Arthur — director, appointed 19/12/2023on trustee list
• HUNT, Paul — director, appointed 01/07/2022not on trustee list
• BEAN, Sue — director, appointed 05/03/2018on trustee list
• HUNT, Lisa Jane — director, appointed 18/09/2017on trustee list
• MCKEAN, Andrew — director, appointed 14/09/2014not on trustee list
• MAGGS, Deborah — director, appointed 09/09/2013on trustee list
• HUNT, Paul — secretary, appointed 04/07/2008

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

26 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (7 freehold); recorded price paid £3.6m. 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 ~3.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (96% 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: 0.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (24/07/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (16/01/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Deborah Maggschair · trustee of 2 other charities
• David Kohler
• Mark Arthur Lymer
• Sue Bean

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

Operates in: Bedford · Cambridgeshire · Central Bedfordshire · Luton · Northamptonshire

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

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with IMPACT INITIATIVES.

• IMPACT INITIATIVES income £3.4m
• IMPACT FAMILY SERVICES income £453k
• IMPACT FAMILY CENTRE income £28k
• INGOL AND TANTERTON COMMUNITY TRUST LIMITED income £479k
• ACTION HOUSING AND SUPPORT LIMITED income £6.9m
• SHAREDIMPACT income £347k

Side by side with its peers

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