Colchester Engagement & Next Steps Ltd

Registered charity 803328 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as COLCHESTER EMERGENCY NIGHT SHELTER, COLCHESTER NIGHT SHELTER

Colchester Emergency Night Shelter provides short-term emergency accommodation and meals to single homeless persons, normally for up to 28 days. During their stay, staff work intensively with residents to ensure that they receive the right benefits, to help them to access support to address other needs and to find appropriate and sustainable accommodation.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF POVERTY BY THE PROVISION OF EMERGENCY AND OTHER ACCOMMODATION ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE FOR PERSONS WHO ARE DEEMED HOMELESS AND ARE IN NEED OF SUCH ACCOMMODATION, ADVICE OR ASSISTANCE.

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 · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total unrestricted funds were £321,268 against a reserves policy target of covering operating costs for a typical half year. The charity reported a net expenditure of £4,625 for the year, with total funds carried forward at £1,331,973, comprising both unrestricted and restricted funds.

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 3 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
• 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 31/03/2021 (received 13/02/2022, 13 days after the 31/01/2022 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Colchester Engagement & Next Steps (matched by registered charity number).

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 £325k. 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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alison Lovesee-Collis
• Clare Heyes
• Emily Lagadec
• GERRARD O'DRISCOLL · trustee of 1 other charity
• Peter Newell

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

Operates in: Essex · Suffolk

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LWS NIGHT SHELTER CIO.

• LWS NIGHT SHELTER CIO income £25k
• OXFORD WINTER NIGHT SHELTER income £68k
• FOREST CHURCHES EMERGENCY NIGHT SHELTER income £331k
• CHESTER AID TO THE HOMELESS income £425k
• HOLY TRINITY NIGHT SHELTER & COMMUNITY OUTREACH income £79k
• DOORSTEP OF HULL income £2.2m

Side by side with its peers

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