Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 0
  • Excess reserves: -5
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • No supporters identified
Overall GiG Score: 4 ?

ISLEWORTH & HOUNSLOW CHARITY LIMITED 

Affordable Accommodation / Social Housing and grant giving
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity is not recognised by HMRC for Gift Aid according to its latest published return
  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • This charity has substantial assets and unrestricted reserves of £12,929,961 available, equivalent to 252 months of spending and so may not be able to utilise additional funding

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/12/22£752£615£137£0£12,995£12,930252.220
31/12/21£723£533£190£0£13,156£13,079294.520
31/12/20£723£576£147£0£11,927£11,861247.120
31/12/19*£688£699£-11£0£11,463£11,401195.630
31/12/18£674£828£-154£0£10,415£10,364150.130
31/12/17£652£412£241£0£10,782£10,728312.820
31/12/16£671£379£292£0£9,998£9,948315.220
31/12/15£649£416£233£0£8,926£8,87925620
31/12/14£581£259£322£0£8,527£7,691356.820
31/12/13£478£326£151£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/12£440£321£119£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/11£286£343£-57£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/10£317£278£39£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/09£275£596£-321£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/08£244£402£-158£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/07?£270£362£-92£0£0£0n/a00
30/09/06£0£0£0n/an/an/an/an/a0

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 13%
Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
Liabilities/Assets: 16%
Liabilities/Income: 326%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 99%
Reserves/Spending: 252.2 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 13 months
Quick Ratio: 6.9
Asset Split ?
Established: 18 years

www.iahcharity.org.uk

info@iahcharity.org.uk

02085699200

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
?
Listed activities
  • Accommodation/Housing
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Other facilities management and maintenance
How it operates
  • Makes Grants to Individuals
  • Makes Grants to Organisations
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
Where it operates
  • Hounslow,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 2 employees

Who's supporting them? ?

We have no records of donations from grant makers.

How is it governed?

Trustees (12)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 44-92
  • DAVID WOODS Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Director Of Development, Octavia Housing
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 09/12/2005, number: 1112467
  • Registered at Companies House on 29/09/2005, number: 05577965
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Other Regulators
  • Homes England
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Filing Record
17 returns made; AR19: 9 days late,
Main office

The Office
Tolson House
Parthenia Drive
Isleworth
TW7 6GT

Objectives

4. THE PURPOSES OF THE CHARITY ('THE OBJECTS') ARE RESTRICTED SPECIFICALLY TO THE FOLLOWING: 4.1 TO RELIEVE THE NEED OF PERSONS IN NECESSITOUS CIRCUMSTANCES BY THE PROVISION OF ACCOMMODATION, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT LIMITED TO: 4.1.1 IN RELATION TO ALMSHOUSES TRANSFERRED FROM OR HELD ON TRUST FOR THE ISLEWORTH AND HOUNSLOW CHARITY, ACCOMMODATION FOR PERSONS OF GOOD CHARACTER WHO (EXCEPT IN SPECIAL CASES TO BE APPROVED BY THE CHARITY COMMISSIONERS) HAVE BEEN RESIDENT IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF HOUNSLOW FOR NOT LESS THAN TWO YEARS NEXT PRECEEDING THE TIME OF APPOINTMENT WITH A PREFERENCE FOR SUCH PERSONS WHO HAVE SO RESIDED IN THE AREA OF THE ANCIENT PARISH OF ISLEWORTH AND: 4.1.1.1 IN SELECTING NEW RESIDENTS FOR INGRAM'S ALMSHOUSES, PREFERENCE SHALL BE GIVEN TO SINGLE WOMEN AND SINGLE MEN, WHETHER SPINSTERS OR BACHELORS, WIDOWS OR WIDOWERS, SEPARATED OR DIVORCED; 4.1.1.2 IN SELECTING NEW RESIDENTS FOR TOLSON HOUSE PREFERENCE FOR 13 OF THE UNITS SHALL BE GIVEN TO SINGLE WOMEN AND SINGLE MEN, WHETHER SPINSTERS OR BACHELORS, WIDOWS OR WIDOWERS, SEPARATED OR DIVORCED OF NOT LESS THAN 55 YEARS OF AGE AND FOR 7 OF THE UNITS PREFERENCE SHALL BE GIVEN TO MARRIED COUPLES OR THOSE IN CIVIL PARTNERSHIPS OF NOT LESS THAN 55 YEARS OF AGE WHERE THEY CAN HAVE SOME OF THEIR BELONGINGS AND HUSBAND AND WIFE SHALL NOT BE SEPARATED; FOR TWO WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE 2-BED FLATS PREFERENCE WILL BE GIVEN TO MARRIED COUPLES OR THOSE IN CIVIL PARTNERSHIPS OR SINGLE PEOPLE IN WHEELCHAIRS OF NOT LESS THAN 50 YEARS OF AGE; FOR THE REMAINING TWO 2-BED FLATS, PREFERENCE WILL BE GIVEN TO MARRIED COUPLES OR THOSE IN CIVIL PARTNERSHIPS OF NOT LESS THAN 55 YEARS OF AGE OR TO A SINGLE PERSON OF NOT LESS THAN 55 YEARS OF AGE WHOSE SON OR DAUGHTER LIVES IN AS THEIR CARER, AS LONG AS THE CARER IS NOT LESS THAN 40 YEARS OF AGE; 4.1.1.3 IN SELECTING NEW RESIDENTS FOR BUTLER'S ALMSHOUSES PREFERENCE SHALL BE GIVEN TO MARRIED COUPLES OR THOSE IN CIVIL PARTNERSHIPS OF NOT LESS THAN 60 YEARS OF AGE; 4.1.1.4 IN SELECTING NEW RESIDENTS FOR SERMON'S ALMSHOUSES PREFERENCE SHALL BE GIVEN TO WOMEN OF NOT LESS THAN 50 YEARS OF AGE FOR ALMSHOUSES 1-6, TO MEN AND WOMEN AND MARRIED COUPLES OR THOSE IN CIVIL PARTNERSHIPS OF NOT LESS THAN 50 YEARS OF AGE FOR ALMSHOUSES 7 AND 8 AND TO SINGLE MEN AND WOMEN, WHETHER SPINSTERS OR BACHELORS, WIDOWS OR WIDOWERS, SEPARATED OR DIVORCED OF NOT LESS THAN 50 YEARS OF AGE FOR ALMSHOUSE 9; 4.1.1.5 IN SELECTING NEW RESIDENTS FOR THE 26 ALMSHOUSES AT RAYBELL COURT PREFERENCE SHALL BE GIVEN AS FOLLOWS: (A) TO WOMEN OF NOT LESS THAN 50 YEARS OF AGE FOR FIVE SUCH ALMSHOUSES; (B) TO MARRIED COUPLES OR THOSE IN CIVIL PARTNERSHIPS OF NOT LESS THAN 50 YEARS OF AGE FOR TWO SUCH ALMSHOUSES; (C) TO MARRIED COUPLES OR THOSE IN CIVIL PARTNERSHIPS OF NOT LESS THAN 60 YEARS OF AGE FOR TWO SUCH ALMSHOUSES; AND (D) TO SINGLE MEN AND WOMEN, WHETHER SPINSTERS OR BACHELORS, WIDOWS OR WIDOWERS, SEPARATED OR DIVORCED OF NOT LESS THAN 50 YEARS OF AGE FOR 1ST FLOOR ALMSHOUSES AND NOT LESS THAN 55 YEARS OF AGE FOR GROUND FLOOR ALMSHOUSES; 4.1.1.6 IN SELECTING NEW RESIDENTS FOR PRIORY COURT, PREFERENCE SHALL BE GIVEN TO MARRIED COUPLES OR THOSE IN CIVIL PARTNERSHIPS AND SINGLE WOMEN AND SINGLE MEN, WHETHER SPINSTER OR BACHELORS, WIDOWS OR WIDOWERS, SEPARATED OR DIVORCED OF NOT LESS THAN 55 YEARS OF AGE; AND 4.1.2 IN THE CASE OF ANY OTHER PROPERTY THAT THE CHARITY MAY OWN FROM TIME TO TIME, ACCOMMODATION FOR THOSE IN NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS BY REASON OF AGE, POVERTY, DISABILITY OR ANY OTHER REASON; 4.2 THE BENEFIT OF THE RESIDENTS IN THE ALMSHOUSES OWNED OR HELD ON TRUST BY THE CHARITY OR ANY OF THEM IN SUCH MANNER AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT FROM TIME TO TIME; AND 4.3 THE RELIEF IN NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS EITHER GENERALLY OR INDIVIDUALLY OF PERSONS RESIDENT IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF HOUNSLOW

Defined Area of Benefit:

IN THE PARISH OF ISLEWORTH AND SURROUNDING AREAS IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF HOUNSLOW.

Data Sources

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