Overall GiG Score: 7 ?
Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 9
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteers +3
  • Grant maker support: +6

MAIDSTONE CHURCHES WINTER SHELTER 

To provide a Winter Shelter for the homeless in Maidstone. This includes a hot meal and a social evening provided by a host of volunteers; a bed for the night and breakfast in the morning. During their stay, the Guest can obtain advice and help to find permanent housing, making contact with family members and assistance with other inter agency facilities.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of 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
Established: 10 years

www.maidstoneshelter.org.uk

mcwsoffice@maidstoneshelter.org.uk

01580713836

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
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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
31/05/23£61£94£-33n/an/an/an/an/a70
31/05/22£109£77£32n/an/an/an/an/a80
31/05/21£49£41£9n/an/an/an/an/a40
31/05/20£94£64£30n/an/an/an/an/a200
31/05/19*£48£64£-17n/an/an/an/an/a260
31/05/18£76£74£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/05/17?£64£65£-1£0£0£0n/a00
05/04/16£53£36£17£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15*£66£49£17£0£0£0n/a00

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

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
Henry Smith Charity£26,000
Joseph Rank Trust£22,500
Garfield Weston Foundation£6,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Maidstone Churches Winter Shelter
£16,000 05/12/2023
towards two years‘ running costs of an organisation providing shelter and support in winter for homeless people in Maidstone.
Joseph Rank Trust - Maidstone Churches Winter Shelter
£22,500 14/10/2021
To fund the running costs of the charity
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Maidstone Churches Winter Shelter
£10,000 23/09/2021
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towards two years' running costs of an organisation providing shelter and support in Winter for homeless people in Maidstone, Kent.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£6,000 04/09/2019
2019-20 Winter Shelter
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Maidstone Churches Winter Shelter
£10,000 04/12/2014
towards one year's running costs of a project providing shelter and support for homeless people in Kent

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 6/7 persons

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 17/04/2014, number: 1156735
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity 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 expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
9 returns made; AR19: 2 days late, AR15: 16 days late,
Main office

MILL COTTAGE
MILL LANE
SISSINGHURST
CRANBROOK
TN17 2HX

Objectives

TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS AMONG PERSONS IN THE BOROUGH OF MAIDSTONE, KENT WHO ARE HOMELESS, SLEEPING ROUGH OR OTHERWISE ROOFLESS BY: (1)PROVIDING HOSPITALITY AND OVERNIGHT SHELTER FOR HOMELESS PEOPLE IN THE WINTER MONTHS. (2)ENGAGING MEMBERS OF CHURCHES IN MAIDSTONE AND OTHER VOLUNTEERS IN BUILDING SUPPORTIVE RELATIONSHIPS WITH HOMELESS PEOPLE IN MAIDSTONE, WITHOUT DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF RACE, GENDER, DISABILITY, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, OR RELIGION. (3)SUPPORTING HOMELESS PEOPLE TO FIND LONG- TERM ACCOMMODATION. (4)UNDERTAKING SUCH OTHER PURPOSES IN RELATION TO THE NEEDS OF HOMELESS PEOPLE AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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