Finance Score: 8

Governance Score: 6

Support Score: 9

Liabilities <10%: +3
Strong growth: +2
Fundraising costs low: +3

Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +9

Overall GiG Score: 23

WYCOMBE HOMELESS CONNECTION

WHC helps homeless or at-risk people in High Wycombe, Bucks, to rebuild their lives by assisting them not only to find or keep accommodation but also to develop skills to achieve a stable lifestyle. WHC is a community project of local churches. WHC?s first initiative was the Wycombe Winter Night Shelter (WWNS), which provides over 800 bed-nights to around 50 individuals annually.

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Positives:

The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
This charity has a robust balance sheet
There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

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
30/04/23	£542	£580	£-38	£2	£496	£496	10.3	11	25
30/04/22	£587	£476	£111	£69	£535	£535	13.5	10	50
30/04/21	£638	£519	£119	£0	£424	£424	9.8	10	100
30/04/20	£425	£408	£17	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	300
30/04/19	£344	£287	£58	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	500
30/04/18	£267	£243	£24	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/04/17	£245	£204	£41	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/04/16	£220	£173	£47	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
30/04/15	£179	£152	£27	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0.5%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0.4%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 1%
Liabilities/Income: 1%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 100%
Reserves/Spending: 10.3 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 10 months
Quick Ratio: 48.5

Asset Split ?

Established: 10 years

www.wyhoc.org.uk

treasurer@wyhoc.org.uk

01494563663

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Tweets

Listed activities

Accommodation/Housing
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

GiG Classification

Services for homeless & excluded people & ex-offenders

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services

Where it operates

Buckinghamshire,

Who it helps

Other Defined Groups

Who works here?

11 employees
25 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

Rothschild Foundation	£120,000
Lloyds Bank Foundation	£52,250
Heart Of England Community Foundation	£25,004
Crisis UK	£25,000
DCMS	£10,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Lloyds Bank Foundation - One off gift towards cost of living crisis to Wycombe Homeless Connection
£2,250	14/12/2022	One off gift to support with the cost of living crisis
Rothschild Foundation - Grant to Wycombe Homeless Connection
£10,000	21/11/2022	Cost of living supplementary grant
Rothschild Foundation - Grant to Wycombe Homeless Connection
£10,000	09/02/2022	Funding to support Wycombe Homeless Connection and Aylesbury Homeless Action Group scope out future collaboration at an away-day at Windmill Hill.
Rothschild Foundation - Grant to Wycombe Homeless Connection
£15,000	12/01/2022	Funding for Wycombe Homeless Connection's winter night shelter for rough sleepers in south Bucks, and capacity building support to explore collaboration with Aylesbury Homeless Action.
Rothschild Foundation - Grant to Wycombe Homeless Connection
£30,000	23/09/2021	An Advocacy Project for people who are in housing crisis.
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Recovery grant to Wycombe Homeless Connection
£50,000	03/12/2020 24	Unrestricted grant over two years towards the core costs of Wycombe Homeless Connection, awarded under the Foundation's Homeless and Vulnerably Housed funding stream. Part of the Covid Recovery Fund ....more Unrestricted grant over two years towards the core costs of Wycombe Homeless Connection, awarded under the Foundation's Homeless and Vulnerably Housed funding stream. Part of the Covid Recovery Fund to support charities to emerge from the pandemic.
Rothschild Foundation - Grant to Wycombe Homeless Connection
£55,000	14/10/2020 12	To expand Home Legal Clinics into north Buckinghamshire, providing free expert legal advice and support for those at risk of homelessness
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£10,000	09/09/2020	NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots ....more NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots and small organisations who can provide an on-the-ground community response to the crisis; and, support local charitable organisations to mobilise volunteers to enable better targeted support in communities through empowered local groups.
Crisis UK - Grant to Wycome Homeless Connection
£25,000	06/04/2020	Advocacy work to prevent illegal evictions.
Heart Of England Community Foundation - Expansion of advocacy service
£25,004	11/02/2020 11	Wycombe Homeless Connection is looking to expand it's advocacy service into neighbouring district areas which do not have any comparable help avaliable, within Buckinghamshire. Our legal drop in ....more Wycombe Homeless Connection is looking to expand it's advocacy service into neighbouring district areas which do not have any comparable help avaliable, within Buckinghamshire. Our legal drop in sessions and advoacy case work started in High Wycombe in May 2018 in partnership with Hillingdon Law Centre. We prevented 41 evictions from occurring in the first year. We want to build on this and expand the service by hiring a new advocacy worker to work alongside our existing advoacy lead worker. We would like to apply for the cost of hiring this new advocacy worker for the first year.
Lankelly Chase Foundation - SystemsChangers
£3,000	19/07/2016 12	To support a member of staff to attend the Systems Changers development programme for frontline workers

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How is it governed?

Trustees (9)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

DAVID WINDER Appointed: 2014

JANE SPOERRY Appointed: 2023

KATHRYN ELIZABETH ROGERS (Chair) Appointed: 2022

MURIEL REYNOLDS Appointed: 2015

NIA SHERRINGTON Appointed: 2023

DAVID SPARKS Appointed: 2014, Other trusteeships: WYCOMBE TALKING NEWSPAPER, HUGHENDEN SCHOOL FUND, HIGH WYCOMBE METHODIST CIRCUIT,

DAWN SEGRUE Appointed: 2017, Other trusteeship: THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF HIGH WYCOMBE ALL SAINTS,

MARK DYKES Appointed: 2014, Other trusteeship: UNION BAPTIST CHURCH HIGH WYCOMBE,

RICHARD ALEXANDER Appointed: 2020, Other trusteeship: HIGH WYCOMBE METHODIST CIRCUIT,

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 17/03/2014, number: 1156211

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 conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Filing Record

9 returns made; all on time

Main office

Oakley Hall
8 Castle Street
High Wycombe

Objectives

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

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