DEPAUL UK

Registered charity 802384 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE DEPAUL TRUST · also registered in Scotland as SC049244 (OSCR)

To offer homeless and disadvantaged young people the opportunity to fulfill their potential and move towards a positive and independent future

Objects

The Objects of the Charity are:-1. the prevention and relief of poverty, homelessness and financial hardship; 2. the advancement of education; 3. such other exclusively charitable objects or exclusively charitable purposes as the trustees may from time to time decide can usefully be pursued for the public benefit, nationally and internationally and by such exclusively charitable means as the trustees may determine (the "objects"). Nothing in the articles shall authorise an application of the property of the charity for purposes which are not charitable in accordance with section 7 of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005.

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 · Amateur Sport · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Southwark, 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 £601k and total reserves of £9.0m, with £4.8m in unrestricted funds. The trustees confirm that free reserves of £1.8m are within the stated policy target of £1.5m to £2.2m, and the group is considered a going concern with sufficient liquid resources to meet obligations.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "below" (FY2024) to "above" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). 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
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02440093
• Trading subsidiary: DEPAUL UK TRADING CIC Companies House 08443540
• Trading subsidiary: DEPAUL HOUSING SERVICES Companies House 08561164

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Nicola Harwood — Executive Director of Operations (source)
• Faye Puttock — Executive Director of Finance and IT (source)
• Kristina Hedderly-Perez — Executive Director of Fundraising and Communications (source)
• Helen Bullock — Director of People (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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Computershare — “Computershare’s £200,000 milestone donation supporting young people at risk of homelessness We are delighted to announce that our corporate …” (source page)

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.

• HARESNAPE, Charles William — director, appointed 01/11/2025on trustee list
• THOMPSON, Mark Vernon — director, appointed 30/04/2025on trustee list
• MICKEL, Elizabeth Jane — director, appointed 05/02/2025on trustee list
• BONNARD, Allee — director, appointed 23/10/2024on trustee list
• KIRKPATRICK, Kyla — director, appointed 23/10/2024on trustee list
• TINKLER, Maureen Anne, Sister — director, appointed 22/02/2022not on trustee list
• BHAGAT, Urvashi — director, appointed 21/02/2022on trustee list
• KATWALA, Sandeep Shashikant — director, appointed 01/07/2021on trustee list
• HELLAWELL, Anthony Ian — director, appointed 21/10/2020on trustee list
• CURRAN, Eugene Patrick — director, appointed 21/10/2020on trustee list
• PUTTOCK, Faye Margaret — secretary, appointed 24/10/2024

Official officers record.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (14,573 followers) · instagram (3,720 followers)

Advertised salaries (public job ads)

Roles this charity has advertised on CharityJob, matched on the exact employer name. A different source from the statutory pay bands above: these are asking salaries for vacancies, not what anyone was paid.

• Assistant Services Director — £49,237 per annum · London (On-site) · posted 1 week ago (seen 16/09/2026)
• Senior Finance Officer — £41,484 per annum · London (On-site) · posted 1 week ago (seen 16/09/2026)
• Client Involvement Manager — £39,080 per annum · Multiple Locations (On-site) · posted 1 week ago (seen 16/09/2026)
• Deputy Outreach Manager — £32,606 per annum · Whitley Bay (On-site) · posted 2 days ago (seen 16/09/2026)
• Deputy Outreach Manager — £32,606 per annum · Wallsend (On-site) · posted 1 week ago (seen 16/09/2026)
• Progression Coach — £29,481 per annum · Manchester (On-site) · posted 2 days ago (seen 16/09/2026)
• Young People Support Worker — £11,734.40 per annum (FTE £29,336 per annum) · Multiple Locations (On-site) · posted 2 days ago (seen 16/09/2026)
• Family Support & Mediation Worker — £27,943 FTE, £11,177.20 actual salary · Whitley Bay (On-site) · posted 1 week ago (seen 16/09/2026)

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.9 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (77% 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: 5.3% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (18/10/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• SANDEEP KATWALAchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Allee Bonnard
• Anthony Ian Hellawell · trustee of 1 other charity
• Charles William Haresnape
• Elizabeth Jane Mickel
• Eugene Patrick Curran
• Kyla Kirkpatrick
• Mark Vernon Thompson
• Urvashi Bhagat · trustee of 1 other charity

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

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Caring for Communities and People.

• Caring for Communities and People income £13.0m
• HOMELESS ACTION income £3.8m
• MANCHESTER SETTLEMENT income £1.8m
• FOR CHILDREN & YOUNG PEOPLE income £1.5m
• HELPING DISABILITIES TRUST income £131k
• ST. PAUL'S, FURZEDOWN income £132k

Side by side with its peers

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