Finance Score: 5
Governance Score: 2
Support Score: 9
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Qualified accounts: -3
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Mainly male board: -1
  • Overall weighted support: +9
Overall GiG Score: 16 ?

AMICUS TRUST

Supporting single homeless people and enabling them to achieve and sustain an independent life.We provide Supported Accomodation. We provide support to get people into Education & EmploymentWe are also the Corporate Trustee of Charlotte Beaty's Almshouses
Analysis by Giving is Great

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 age

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board is predominantly male

Financial issues to consider:

  • The latest accounts were qualified

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
?31/03/23£7,505£6,878£627£1£5,695£5,4309.5921
31/03/22£6,624£6,141£483£0£4,321£4,1248.1851
31/03/21£6,282£5,328£954£0£3,842£3,6238.2800
31/03/20£5,380£4,715£664£0£2,910£2,3676760
31/03/19£3,980£3,479£501£0£2,947£2,90110690
31/03/18£2,668£2,390£279£0£2,139£2,06310.4490
31/03/17£1,908£1,695£213£1£1,859£1,75312.4430
31/03/16£1,464£1,346£118£2£1,639£1,57214340
31/03/15£1,223£1,188£35£19£1,006£8919350
31/03/14£1,171£1,063£108£5£934£8189.2270
31/03/13*£1,103£1,010£93£6£826£7859.3270
31/03/12£1,050£1,005£45£7£733£7058.4270
31/03/11£1,035£1,066£-31£9£688£6597.4260
31/03/10£1,007£1,048£-41£18£720£6927.9280
31/03/09£1,132£1,064£67£19£760£6977.9270
31/03/08£1,192£1,114£78£7£723£6557.1330
31/03/07£1,161£1,072£89£12£645£1631.8330
31/03/06£1,268£1,119£150n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/05£1,309£1,214£95n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/03/04£1,637£1,487£150n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 9%
Liabilities/Income: 7%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 95%
Reserves/Spending: 9.5 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 8 months
Quick Ratio: 8
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 50 years

www.amicustrust.org

info@amicustrust.org

01234358478

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Accommodation/Housing
GiG Classification
  • Shelter for homeless, vulnerable & excluded people
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Bedford, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Central Bedfordshire, Leicester City, Luton, Northamptonshire,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Defined Groups

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£308,690
Harpur Trust£89,276
Garfield Weston Foundation£50,000
Ministry of Defence£9,500
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£30,000 22/03/2023
Overcoming Homelessness: Prioritising Mental Health
National Lottery Community Fund - Time to Listen
£308,690 16/12/2022
The project will support single homeless individuals access mental health services at their point of need. The funding will be used to provide support for homeless people to overcome the barriers preventing them from engaging with mainstream ....more
Harpur Trust - Grant to Amicus Trust
£30,882 07/09/2022
24
Mental Health support for homeless people
Ministry of Defence - Covenant Fund
£9,500 18/06/2021
For local projects that reduce isolation and promote integration
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000 26/02/2021
Overcoming Homelessness: 1-2-1 Mental Health Support
Crisis UK - Grant to Amicus Trust
£4,000 22/04/2020
Funding for PPE for 4 months
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation - Stream 1 - Delivery or Support Costs
£3,906 17/04/2020
2
Grant to Amicus Trust
Harpur Trust - Amicus Trust
£58,394 10/03/2020
24
Overcoming Homelessness: Managing Mental Health
Heart Of England Community Foundation - Free from homelessness: Northamptonshire
£32,134 01/03/2019
12
Starting life as a soup kitchen in Bedford in 1974, Amicus Trust now offers over 50 houses providing accommodation and support to homeless adults. This project is focused on supporting homeless adults in Northamptonshire with mental health and basic ....more
Bedfordshire and Luton Community Foundation - Grant to Amicus Trust
£7,500 11/12/2018
11
Stepping Stones Project Luton: Overcoming Homelessness
LandAid Charitable Trust - Young People Accommodation Wellingborough
£75,000 25/06/2018
6
Through the renovation of 2 double storey flats (currently unusable), this project will aim to create a 7 bedroom supported accommodation communal areas for young people in Wellingborough. The project will have an office (and staff on-site) and ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£7,500 06/07/2017
Night Owl Mobile Night Shelter
National Lottery Community Fund - Stepping Stones
£495,254 03/09/2013
60
This is a continuation and expansion of a project delivered by Bedfordshire Housing Link Limited (BHLL) to provide homeless vulnerable people living in Bedfordshire with employment support services to enable them to make positive changes in their ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

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

Age Range of Trustees: 48-75
  • ADEJINMI MACAULAY Appointed: 2021
  • JOHN SACKETT Appointed: 2007, Occupation: Consultant Engineer
  • JULIAN MARTIN HOGARTH ARMITAGE Appointed: 2013, Occupation: Retired
  • JOHN DAVID OWEN Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Architect
  • MIRANDA SMYTHE (Chair) Appointed: 2004, Occupation: Consultant
  • NIEL DAVID DANIELS Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Finance
  • STEPHEN JOHN DICKINSON Appointed: 2021
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 11/02/1975, number: 268639
  • Registered at Companies House on 28/08/1974, number: 01182060
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
  • Investment
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR13: 8 days late,
Main office

Amicus Trust Ltd
104 Midland Road
BEDFORD
mk40 1QE

Objectives

The objects for which the Association is established are the relief of poverty, sickness and old age inparticular (but without in any way limiting the generality of the foregoing words) for the relief of poverty ofpersons who by reason of mental or physical infirmity are unable to fulfil their duties as citizens or theirobligations to their employers, in particular but not exclusively, through the provision of social andsupported housing and related activities.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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