Overall GiG Score: 10 ?
Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 7
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Grant maker support: +7

BEACON HOUSE MINISTRIES 

Primary healthcare and holistic support for those who are homeless or in insecure accommodation. Nurse-led clinics; smoking cessation; showers; provision of toiletries and food; a laundry service; cooked meals; a computer suite; a craft and activities room; and a range of occupational and therapeutic activities to build skills and confidence.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers, including a Community Foundation, recently
  • Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Established: 28 years

www.beaconhouseministries.org.uk

office@beaconhouseministries.org.uk

01206761960

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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
31/03/23£470£444£26n/an/an/an/an/a25
31/03/22*£474£437£37n/an/an/an/an/a20
31/03/21£509£409£100£0£899£50114.71425
31/03/20£471£347£123n/an/an/an/an/a45
31/03/19£431£337£94n/an/an/an/an/a58
31/03/18£370£313£57£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£378£325£53£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£268£237£31£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£210£203£7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£169£175£-6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£174£182£-8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£198£204£-7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£176£172£4£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10*£164£175£-11£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£157£151£6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£150£142£9£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07£145£133£12£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£172£160£11£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£136£164£-28£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£150£138£12£0£0£0n/a00

Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 18%
Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
What it does
  • Education/Training
  • Recreation
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who works here?
  • 25 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Essex,

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
Essex Community Foundation£78,363
Department of Health£55,186
Garfield Weston Foundation£45,000
CAF£10,000
Lloyds Bank Foundation£7,093
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Essex Community Foundation - Grant to Beacon House Ministries
£9,000 02/03/2023
to support the operating costs of a charity helping people who are homeless in Colchester
Essex Community Foundation - Grant to Beacon House Ministries
£6,000 14/02/2023
to help meet the core costs of a charity supporting individuals who are homeless in Colchester
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£15,000 01/07/2022
The Cafe Plus Project
Essex Community Foundation - Grant to Beacon House Ministries
£100 20/04/2022
providing primary healthcare and wellbeing services to people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness in Colchester
Essex Community Foundation - Grant to Beacon House Ministries
£20,000 07/04/2022
towards the core costs of an organisation supporting homeless people in Colchester
Essex Community Foundation - Grant to Beacon House Ministries
£6,048 10/02/2022
to support an advocacy service working with homeless offenders in Colchester
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£15,000 09/07/2021
The Cafe Plus Project
Essex Community Foundation - Grant to Beacon House Ministries
£15,000 25/03/2021
to enable recruitment of a housing specialist and extend other staff hours to meet the demands on a charity supporting the homeless in Colchester
Essex Community Foundation - Grant to Beacon House Ministries
£100 15/03/2021
providing primary healthcare and wellbeing services to people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness in Colchester
Essex Community Foundation - Grant to Beacon House Ministries
£7,015 18/02/2021
to support an advocacy service for people who are homeless in the Colchester area to reduce offending behaviours
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Variation grant to Beacon House Ministries
£7,093 23/07/2020
Grant to Beacon House Ministries meeting the additional costs of adapting services, premises or implementing other safety measures in response to the Covid pandemic.
CAF - Grant to Beacon House Ministries
£10,000 09/04/2020
3
Grant to Beacon House Ministries to support the organisation through COVID19
Essex Community Foundation - Grant to Beacon House Ministries
£15,000 08/04/2020
to provide an emergency response to support the homeless community of Colchester during COVID19
Essex Community Foundation - Grant to Beacon House Ministries
£100 03/04/2020
Providing primary healthcare and wellbeing services to people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness in Colchester
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£15,000 20/03/2020
Café Plus Project
Department of Health - Beacon
£55,186 01/04/2019
Beyond Places of Safety
Essex Community Foundation - Move-On Accommodation
£49,992 01/03/2019
24
To employ a Tenancy Support Worker for two years to manage move-on accommodation for marginalised and previously homeless people in Colchester
Essex Community Foundation - Advocacy to reduce offending behaviours
£5,000 08/02/2019
11
To support an advocacy service for people who are homeless in the Colchester area to reduce offending behaviours
National Lottery Community Fund - Occupational Therapy response to Homelessness
£221,790 01/10/2018
36
This project provides a drop-in service for homeless people and those living in temporary or insecure housing, including the offer of showers, laundry, clothing, toiletries. It also provides ....more
Essex Community Foundation - Grant to Beacon House Ministries
£61,400 25/09/2018
36
towards three years' salary and on costs of a Co-ordinator at the 'Cafe Plus' project providing a holistic support service for homeless people in Colchester, Essex.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Beacon House Ministries
£61,400 12/09/2018
36
towards three years' salary of the Co-ordinator at the 'Cafe Plus' project providing a holistic support service for homeless people in Colchester, Essex
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Beacon House Ministries
£62,326 06/04/2018
36
running services for homeless people from the day centre, enabling support of their basic needs and then address any issues that prevent them from securing and maintaining accommodation and also ....more
Essex Community Foundation - Beyond the Gates
£4,808 07/02/2018
11
To support the employment cost of a part-time co-ordinator of services aimed at changing anti-social behaviour by homeless individuals in Colchester
National Lottery Community Fund - Beacon House relocation
£9,250 06/09/2017
12
The project will carry out a questionnaire to help with their move to a new location, bringing both buildings to the standard needed to provide services to homeless and marginalised people.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000 10/05/2017
Frontline Services
Essex Community Foundation - Going the extra mile
£8,519 04/11/2016
11
To support homeless people with mental ill-health to access healthcare in Colchester.
Sport England - Improving physical outcomes
£5,580 19/04/2016
21
Funding under Sport England's Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled Improving physical outcomes. This project lists its main activity as Multi Sports
National Lottery Community Fund - Development of Clinical IT system
£10,000 24/02/2016
12
This charity will use the funding to purchase a new nationally used computer system. This will improve access to health care services for homeless people, improving their mental and physical health ....more
Tudor Trust - Grant to Open Door Ministries
£10,000 30/07/2015
12
over one year towards a resilient resettlement and community integration project for ex-homeless people in Colchester
National Lottery Community Fund - Occupational Therapy Project
£90,465 18/05/2015
36
This is a new projectthat aims to provide a holistic approach to breaking the cycle of homelessness, offering primary healthcare and wellbeing facilities to those who are homeless, in temporary or ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Beacon House Ministries
£62,326 06/05/2015
36
running services for homeless people from the day centre, enabling support of their basic needs and then address any issues that prevent them from securing and maintaining accommodation and also ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Beacon House
£34,200 12/09/2013
36
towards three years' salary of a part-time Health and Wellbeing Assessor and running costs of a project providing support and facilities to homeless people in Essex
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Beacon House
£11,078 01/06/2011
Towards a new bridging group that will enable more entrenched, hard to reach homeless clients to engage in support and development services.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 43-78
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 02/05/1996, number: 1055109
  • Registered at Companies House on 26/03/1996, number: 03177916
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Other Regulators
  • Care Quality Commission
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
  • 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; AR22: 9 days late, AR10: 16 days late,
Main office

BEACON HOUSE
24 Crouch Street
COLCHESTER
CO3 3ES

Objectives

THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND SICKNESS AMONGST PEOPLE WHO ARE HOMELESS OR HAVE NO PERMANENT ACCOMMODATION BY THE PROVISION, ACCORDING TO CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES AND FAITH, OF HEALTHCARE, COUNSELLING AND OTHER SUPPORT SERVICES.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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