Church Homeless Charity

Registered charity 802801 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CHURCH HOMELESS TRUST LTD, CHURCH HOUSING TRUST

To raise funds to benefit homeless people and those in housing need and in particular, those cared for by Riverside Care and Support (formerly English Churches Housing Group)

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ('OBJECTS') ARE TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION AND SUPPORT OF THE HOMELESS FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE OR HAVE BEEN HOMELESS OR SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY INCLUDING BY MEANS OF: (1) PROVIDING FUNDING TO SUPPORT SUCH PEOPLE WHO NEED HELP TO ESTABLISH A HOME AND REINTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY, AND SUCH PEOPLE WHO NEED ONGOING HELP DUE TO DISABILITY AND/OR ILLNESS; (2) FUNDING SUPPORT FOR SUCH INDIVIDUALS WHICH IS NOT PROVIDED BY STATUTORY SERVICES OR GOVERNMENT FUNDING; (3) FUNDING SUPPORT FOR SUCH INDIVIDUALS IN NEED BY WORKING WITH SERVICE PROVIDERS WITH CHARITABLE PURPOSE, IN PARTICULAR RIVERSIDE CARE AND SUPPORT IN THE FIRST INSTANCE, AND OTHER SERVICE PROVIDERS WITH CHARITABLE OBJECTS SIMILAR TO THOSE OF THE CHARITY; AND (4) CHALLENGING, ENCOURAGING AND ENABLING THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND, AND THE WIDER CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY, TO CONTINUE THE CHRISTIAN TRADITION OF HELPING HOMELESS AND SOCIALLY EXCLUDED PEOPLE.FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS CLAUSE, 'SOCIALLY EXCLUDED' MEANS EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PARTS OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF ONE OF MORE OF THE FOLLOWING FACTORS: UNEMPLOYMENT; FINANCIAL HARDSHIP; YOUTH OR OLD AGE; ILL HEALTH (PHYSICAL OR MENTAL); SUBSTANCE ABUSE OR DEPENDENCY INCLUDING ALCOHOL AND DRUGS; DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF SEX, RACE, DISABILITY, ETHNIC ORIGIN, RELIGION, BELIEF, CREED, SEXUAL ORIENTATION OR GENDER REASSIGNMENT; POOR EDUCATIONAL OR SKILLS ATTAINMENT; RELATIONSHIP OR FAMILY BREAKDOWN; POOR HOUSING (THAT IS HOUSING THAT DOES NOT MEET BASIC HABITABLE STANDARDS; CRIME (EITHER AS A VICTIM OF CRIME OR AS AN OFFENDER REHABILITATING INTO SOCIETY).

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 · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income decreased to £420,837 from £621,120 in the prior year, while total expenditure was £554,464, resulting in a net decrease in funds. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £268,609, which the trustees report equate to ten months of general fund expenditure excluding grants, and they believe the charity is a going concern.

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 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
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02453957

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Church Homeless Charity (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.

• HOPGOOD, Kathleen Victoria — director, appointed 21/05/2026on trustee list
• PIDGEON, Jo-Daniel — director, appointed 26/11/2025on trustee list
• BOARDMAN, Richard — director, appointed 20/11/2024on trustee list
• ROBINSON, David John — director, appointed 02/10/2024on trustee list
• DEUTSCH, Andrew Simon — director, appointed 09/02/2022on trustee list
• BAKER, Simon Nicholas Hartland, Reverend — director, appointed 22/09/2021on trustee list
• DAWS, Christopher William — director, appointed 11/11/2010on trustee list
• MORRIS, Miriam Joy — secretary, appointed 20/03/2015

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~5.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 19.6% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Simon Deutschchair
• Christopher William Daws · trustee of 3 other charities
• David John Robinson
• Jo-Daniel Pidgeon
• Kathleen Victoria Hopgood
• Rev Simon Nicholas Hartland Baker
• Richard Boardman

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

Operates in: Throughout England

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 KINGSTON CHURCHES ACTION ON HOMELESSNESS.

• KINGSTON CHURCHES ACTION ON HOMELESSNESS income £1.2m
• CLEAVES CHARITY AND OTHERS income £64k
• WARMING UP THE HOMELESS income £542k
• Churches Housing Action Team (Devon) Ltd income £541k
• CAMBRIDGE CHURCHES HOMELESS PROJECT income £78k
• CHURCH ESTATE OR CHURCH ALMSHOUSES income £41k

Side by side with its peers

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