Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: -4
Support Score: 7
  • No PartB
  • No conflicts policy: -1
  • Static board: -3
  • Large volunteer base +3
  • Overall weighted support: +4
Overall GiG Score: 3 ?

HELPING HOMELESS BELIEVE (HHB)

Helping Homeless Believe provide an outreach service as well as one to one advocacy services to the homeless community.
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Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy
  • The Board composition appears to be rather static

Financial issues to consider:

  • There has been a change of accounting period recently, so trends may be hard to determine
  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
N.B. data has been adjusted to reflect year end change
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income Spending Surplus/
Deficit
Volun-
teers
30/09/23£39£41£-2n/a
30/09/22?£66£54£12n/a
01/04/21*£29£17£11n/a
Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 5 years

www.helpinghomelessbelieve.co.uk

hhb@helpinghomelessbelieve.co.uk

07704674241

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Community food services
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Bristol City, South Gloucestershire,
Who it helps
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

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

Major supporters in last 5 years
National Lottery Community Fund£9,500
Quartet Community Foundation£8,500
Co-Operative Group£4,446
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Helping Homeless Believe
£2,646 21/10/2023
We would like to provide good quality hot meals, snack packs, clothing, toiletries, sleeping bags to those experiencing homelessness or food poverty.
Quartet Community Foundation - Grant to Helping Homeless Believe
£8,500 11/05/2023
For support worker costs to ensure set opening hours for the group's safe place and for staff training.
National Lottery Community Fund - Survival packs
£9,500 08/07/2022
The funding will be used to provide winter survival packs. The project aims to throw a lifeline to those who are homeless.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Helping Homeless Believe (HHB)
£1,800 23/10/2021
Our aim is to ensure those deemed most vulnerable in society have their voices heard and basic needs met by delivering food for the homeless, emergency accommodation, and temporary housing.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (3)
Current Trustees appointed

  • NATALIE REED (Chair) Appointed: 2019
  • SAFFRON COTTEE Appointed: 2019
  • SAMANTHA MAY MCNIVEN Appointed: 2019
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 23/12/2019, number: 1187141
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
3 returns made; AR21: 24 days late,
Main office

Ground Floor
Mulberry House
The Kingswood Estate
Britannia Road
Bristol

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:A) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY BY THE PROVISION OF ADVICE, SUPPORT AND ASSISTANCE FOR PERSONS IN NEED, WHO ARE DEEMED TO BE HOMELESS, VULNERABLY HOUSED OR OTHERWISE SUFFERING THE EFFECTS OF POVERTY. B) TO SECURE THE RESOURCES TO SUPPORT THE RELIEF OF POVERTY THROUGH THE PROVISION OF EMERGENCY AND OTHER ACCOMMODATION,

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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