Overall GiG Score: 13 ?
Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 6
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +6

SHOC, SLOUGH HOMELESS - OUR CONCERN 

The main activities of SHOC are to provide: Housing Advice and Tenancy Sustainment; Benefits, Grants and Money Management Support, Health Management Programme, Education and Employment Programme and Home Comforts such as hot meals, bathing and laundry facilities, clothing and toiletries. These services are all provided from our daycentre which is a safe and secure environment.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
Established: 26 years

sloughhomeless.org.uk

shoc.serenahall@googlemail.com

01753577747

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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£239£239£0n/an/an/an/an/a30
31/03/22£162£223£-61n/an/an/an/an/a30
31/03/21£235£216£18n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/03/20£130£242£-112n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/03/19£173£229£-56n/an/an/an/an/a50
31/03/18£448£277£171£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17*£190£247£-57£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£217£259£-42£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£174£212£-39£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£195£213£-18£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£246£195£51£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£201£198£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£191£195£-3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10*£173£179£-6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£178£179£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£238£148£90£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£135£142£-7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£106£138£-32£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£139£135£4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04*£158£161£-3£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
What it does
  • Accommodation/Housing
  • Education/Training
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who works here?
  • 30 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Slough,

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
National Lottery Community Fund£304,023
DCMS£40,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£15,000
Wates Family Enterprise Trust£5,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£15,000 12/11/2021
Keeping the Doors Open
Masonic Trust - MCF Matched Funding
£1,500 11/11/2021
Unrestricted matched funding in partnership with the local masonic province
Wates Family Enterprise Trust - Slough Homeless Our Concern-Group Light Touch-Sept 2021
£5,000 23/09/2021
Provide a safe place for people sleeping rough in Slough. A place to come inside out of the elements, to get a hot shower and fresh clothes, hot food and professional help to access treatment and ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - SHOC Day Centre
£304,023 15/03/2021
35
A day centre to support homeless people by providing essential services information and coaching support. It is a warm place for homeless people to come each day and access a hot shower fresh clothes ....more
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£40,000 18/06/2020
"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
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Slough Homeless Our Concern - SHOC
£3,393 04/08/2017
We are seeking funding to provide an outreach service that will help people rejoin the community and recover from homelessness.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Slough Homeless Our Concern
£90,000 08/09/2016
36
towards three years' running costs of the 'A8 Outreach Service', providing practical support, advice and training to homeless people in Berkshire
National Lottery Community Fund - Springboard Plus
£292,898 19/09/2012
48
This Slough project aims to help homeless people to improve their self-esteem, develop new skills and access information to secure paid employment, in addition to traditional drop-in support such as ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Slough Homeless Our Concern
£30,000 29/06/2011
the salary of the Day Centre Manager
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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: 39-82
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 24/07/1998, number: 1070689
  • Registered at Companies House on 11/06/1998, number: 03579654
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
  • Investing charity funds 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
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR17: 0 days late, AR10: 4 days late, AR04: 1 days late,
Main office

74 Ragstone Road
SLOUGH
SL1 2PX

Objectives

TO RELIEVE HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS AMONGST THE HOMELESS AND AMONGST THOSE PERSONS IN NEED WHO ARE LIVING IN ADVERSE HOUSING CONDITIONS IN THE SLOUGH AREA

Defined Area of Benefit:

SLOUGH AREA

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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