Finance Score: -6
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 9
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Fundraising costs high: -5
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +9
Overall GiG Score: 12 ?

THE HOUSE OF ST BARNABAS 

The House of St Barnabas has been supporting those affected by homelessness for over 160 years, helping them to bring about a positive change in their lives by offering a unique Life Skills Programme.The Programme provides participants with personal development coaching, therapies focused on mental and physical well-being, practical and classroom-based hospitality training.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • More than half of total income was derived from trading and fees in the latest year
  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
  • Fundraising costs are extremely high relative to funds raised
Established: 62 years

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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£3,050£3,500£-450£390£1,259£1,0933.75734
31/03/22£2,872£2,777£95£1,991£1,749£1,5966.94829
31/03/21£1,614£1,754£-140£1,005£1,653£1,49510.22931
31/03/20£2,213£2,189£24£1,223£1,793£1,64192755
31/03/19£2,306£2,278£28£1,149£1,769£1,6718.82748
31/03/18£2,094£1,969£125£1,056£1,740£1,6139.8260
31/03/17£2,091£1,766£325£999£1,615£1,48110.1240
31/03/16£1,684£1,554£130£771£1,280£1,0958.5200
31/03/15£1,431£1,162£269£694£1,198£1,02710.6140
31/03/14£2,020£1,099£920£700£929£8599.4120
31/03/13£958£996£-38£384£8£-162-280
31/03/12£917£920£-3£793£46£-24-0.370
31/03/11£614£675£-61£428£49£-22-0.460
31/03/10£754£710£44£419£111£390.750
31/03/09*£291£412£-121£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08*£135£183£-48£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07*£178£268£-90£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06?£940£873£66£0£0£0n/a00
31/12/04£658£800£-143£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 49.7%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 11.1%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 7%
Highest pay band: £80,000-£90,000
Liabilities/Assets: 54%
Liabilities/Income: 48%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 87%
Reserves/Spending: 3.7 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 1 months
Quick Ratio: 0.7
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout London,
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
Who works here?
  • 57 employees
  • 34 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
Trust for London£265,643
Garfield Weston Foundation£150,000
The Grocers' Charity£64,160
Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government£50,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Grocers' Charity - 2023 Grant - House of St Barnabas
£5,000 15/03/2023
to part fund the delivery of two 8-week Employment Preparation Programmes supporting up to 24 participants.
Trust for London - House of St Barnabas
£87,000 04/07/2022
The funding is for the consolidation of the Better Work Project. As well as directly supporting people who have experienced homelessness to progress into better roles, the project will work with ....more
The Grocers' Charity - 2022-The House of St Barnabas
£52,380 04/01/2022
Supporting those who find themselves homeless into employment and accommodation
Trust for London - House of St Barnabas - in - Soho
£7,500 06/09/2021
This funding is for the Employment Academy, which this year will enable 40 people to get and retain work. Together with our Accommodation Pathway support, our strategy of ‘Good Home and Good ....more
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund - Grant to House of St Barnabas
£10,000 07/12/2020
12
Covid additional main grant unrestricted core costs
The Charity of Sir Richard Whittington - Covid-19 Rapid Response Fund Grant
£8,858 23/11/2020
12
To support the transition of their delivery model and bring their hospitality function in-house.
The Earl of Northampton's Charity - Covid-19 Rapid Response Fund Grant
£1,142 23/11/2020
12
To support the transition of their delivery model and bring their hospitality function in-house.
The Grocers' Charity - 2021 - House of St Barnabas
£1,780 30/09/2020
Empowering those who experience homelessness
Trust for London - House of St Barnabas - in - Soho
£47,143 04/09/2020
7
The funding is for a contribution to the CEO and Director of Impact salary costs to enable HoSB to reopen and recommence its services to vulnerable homeless people following Covid19. This is to ....more
Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government - MHCLG Homelessness Fund
£50,000 07/05/2020
Organisations supporting homelessness
Mark Leonard Trust - COVID-19 relief aid
£5,000 07/04/2020
Towards an emergency fund for out-of-work graduates from the catering and hospitality Employment Academy, in response to the loss of livelihood as a result of the COVID-19 national lockdown.
The Grocers' Charity - 2020 The House of St Barnabas
£5,000 18/03/2020
Working to increase social mobility through training courses, better facilities or parenting support; Empowering those who experience homelessness
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (3 Years) award
£150,000 28/02/2020
Core Costs/Unrestricted Grant
Trust for London - House of St Barnabas - in - Soho
£124,000 13/06/2019
36
The funding is to pay for the costs of a new Progression Support worker over the next three years, to support a minimum of 36 homeless people with their progression within work into better paid, more ....more
Wates Family Enterprise Trust - House of St Barnabas
£15,000 26/04/2018
Funding for three participants to take part in the 2018 Employment Preparation Programmes, plus 12 months of progression support afterwards.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£25,000 18/04/2018
The House of St Barnabas Employment Academy
Hazelhurst Trust - Grant
£400 07/11/2017
Homeless education programme
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to House of St Barnabas
£25,000 23/10/2017
Refurbishment for a charity which works with homeless people in London
Hazelhurst Trust - Grant
£1,800 04/09/2017
Homeless education programme
Hazelhurst Trust - Grant
£1,800 21/04/2017
Watts Gallery launch event support
Comic Relief - Steps away from the street: The House of St Barnabas Employment Academy
£40,000 30/11/2016
24
The House of St Barnabas operates a not-for-profit members’ club in beautiful Georgian buildings in the heart of Soho. Income from the members’ club supports an Employment Academy for people with ....more
Hazelhurst Trust - Grant
£5,000 14/10/2016
Homeless education programme
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to House of St Barnabas
£120,000 04/12/2014
36
towards three years' salary of the Employment Preparation Programme Manager supporting development and learning opportunities for those affected by homelessness in London
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 36-61
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 22/09/1962, number: 207242
  • Registered at Companies House on 12/03/2009, number: 06845128
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 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 conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
19 returns made; AR09: 11 days late, AR08: 20 days late, AR07: 42 days late,
Main office

EVELYN PARTNERS LLP
45 GRESHAM STREET
LONDON
EC2V 7BG

Objectives

TO RELIEVE THE NEED OF PERSONS IN NECESSITOUS CIRCUMSTANCES, IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY PROVIDING TEMPORARY HOUSING, ADVICE, TRAINING AND SUPPORT.

Defined Area of Benefit:

UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, LONDON.

Data Sources

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360 Giving
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