Finance Score: -5

Governance Score: 6

Support Score: 6

Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
No PartB

Good trustee age range: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +6

Overall GiG Score: 7

CANTERBURY HOUSING ADVICE CENTRE

PROVISION OF AN ADVICE SERVICE ON HOUSING ISSUES INCLUDING MATTERS OF HOUSING LAW

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending

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
31/03/23		£96	£128	£-32	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	3
31/03/22		£112	£119	£-7	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	4
31/03/21		£165	£127	£38	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	3
31/03/20		£149	£117	£33	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	8
31/03/19		£101	£115	£-14	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	4
31/03/18		£126	£116	£10	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/17		£82	£111	£-29	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/16		£113	£122	£-9	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/15		£100	£125	£-25	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/14	*	£249	£226	£23	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/13		£217	£205	£11	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/12		£217	£207	£10	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/11		£226	£205	£22	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/10		£274	£240	£34	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/09		£248	£271	£-24	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08		£218	£217	£1	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/07		£221	£216	£5	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/06		£222	£230	£-8	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05	*	£236	£234	£2	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04		£217	£233	£-16	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 32 years

www.chac.co.uk

adviceteam@chac.co.uk

01227762605

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Tweets

Listed activities

Accommodation/Housing

GiG Classification

Services for homeless & excluded people & ex-offenders

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information

Where it operates

Kent,

Who it helps

Other Defined Groups

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
3 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years

Garfield Weston Foundation	£45,000
Access to Justice Foundation	£31,823
London Legal Support Trust	£10,000
DCMS	£7,045
Co-Operative Group	£5,748
CAF	£5,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
London Legal Support Trust - Centres of Excellence 2021
£10,000	14/12/2021	Long term core funding for specialist free legal advice organisations, along with in-kind help and support with ongoing development. Aiming to support a sustainable and robust specialist advice ....more Long term core funding for specialist free legal advice organisations, along with in-kind help and support with ongoing development. Aiming to support a sustainable and robust specialist advice sector.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Canterbury Housing Advice Centre - Herne Bay Drop-in
£2,093	23/10/2021	Our Herne Bay drop-in centre will help those facing housing issues during Covid-19 and beyond, providing free support to prevent homelessness, repossession, and benefit problems.
Access to Justice Foundation - Joint Initiative Flexible COVID-19 Grant
£21,000	09/08/2021	A flexible grant as part of wave 2 of the Community Justice Fund. A pooled fund to support the specialist legal welfare advice sector in its response to COVID92
Access to Justice Foundation - Joint Initiative Flexible COVID-19 Grant
£10,823	13/10/2020	A flexible grant as part of wave 1 of the Community Justice Fund. A pooled fund to support the specialist legal welfare advice sector in its response to COVID19
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£7,045	25/09/2020	"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more "The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to operate, thereby reducing the burden on public services.2) To ensure essential services are provided to vulnerable people, both in the short and long term through increased community support through the work of charitable organisations."
CAF - Grant to Canterbury Housing Advice Centre
£5,000	01/05/2020 3	Grant to Canterbury Housing Advice Centre to support the organisation through COVID19
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (3 Years) award
£45,000	14/02/2020	Core Costs / Unrestricted Grant
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Canterbury Housing Advice Centre
£3,655	15/11/2019	We want to provide a free drop-in service, offering specialist housing advice to combat and prevent homelessness in and around Whitstable.
National Lottery Community Fund - Outreach Project
£7,287	24/01/2019 12	This organisation will continue to provide outreach support to vulnerable people at risk of homelessness. The project aims to provide early intervention support and improve their service though ....more This organisation will continue to provide outreach support to vulnerable people at risk of homelessness. The project aims to provide early intervention support and improve their service though enhanced service user involvement and feedback.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000	28/11/2017	Canterbury Housing Advice Centre Revenue Costs
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Canterbury Housing Advice Centre
£10,000	17/09/2015 12	towards one year's running costs of a project in Kent that provides housing advice, support and representation to disadvantaged residents
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Canterbury Housing Advice Centre
£20,000	12/09/2012 24	towards two years' running costs of a charity in Kent providing support to homeless people

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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 40-71

JOHN ANDREW WIGHTMAN Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Semi-Retired University Academic

JON KING Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Accountant

NICK JACKSON Appointed: 1998, Occupation: Lecturer

SARAH ELIZABETH SLOWE Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Head Of Scholarly Communication University Of Kent

TESSA LOUISE O'SULLIVAN Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Rural Housing Enabler

VIVIEN RUTH GAMBLING Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Solicitor

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 27/11/1991, number: 1006386
Registered at Companies House on 03/09/1991, number: 02642776

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

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 expenses policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Filing Record

20 returns made; AR14: 36 days late, AR05: 19 days late,

Main office

CANTERBURY HOUSING ADVICE CENTRE
2nd FLOOR
24 BURGATE
CANTERBURY
CT1 2HA

Objectives

TO RELIEVE POVERTY AND HOMELESSNESS AMONG PERSONS IN NEED WITHIN CANTERBURY AND ITS SURROUNDING AREAS AND ASSIST THOSE PERSONS WHO ARE DISPOSSESSED OF THEIR ACCOMMODATION FOR WHATEVER REASON FIND ALTERNATIVE ACCOMMODATION.

Defined Area of Benefit:

CANTERBURY AND ITS SURROUNDING AREAS

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