## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From 1[st] May 2024 To 30[th] April 2025**
## **Charity name: Ealing Churches Winter Night Shelter (ECWNS)**
## **Charity registration number: 1152768**
## **Objectives and Activities**
||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**The relief of hardship and poverty, by**
**facilitating churches and other Christian**
**groups in the London Borough of Ealing**
**to provide shelter and support for**
**people who are homeless or at**
**significant risk of homelessness.**|
|Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or
services identified in the
accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|**Ealing Churches Winter Night Shelter**
**(ECWNS) coordinates a roving shelter**
**between end November to end March,**
**providing homeless adults in the**
**London Borough of Ealing with shelter,**
**food, companionship and one-to-one**
**case support. Our shelters are provided**
**by over 20 churches in the borough who**
**transform their facilities into a warm and**
**welcoming environment. The church-**
**based shelters are supported by 200**
**volunteers from across the London**
**Borough of Ealing.**
**Homeless guests are referred by local**
**outreach agencies and we play a**
**unique, and integral role as part of the**
**borough's response to the critical level**
**of homelessness.**
**ECWNS seeks to support shelter guests**
**into permanent and dignified**
**accommodation and signposts towards**
**essential medical, legal and other**
**services.**
**We provide the borough’s only**
**Christmas and New Year shelter.**|
|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**The trustees have had regard to the**
**guidance issued by the Charity**
**Commission on public benefit.**|
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|---|---|---|
||SORP reference||
|Policy on grant making|Para 1.38||
|Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38||
|Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|•
**Over 200 volunteers across the**
**Borough of Ealing supported the**
**shelter through setting up the**
**shelter each night (preparing**
**beds), cooking, washing up,**
**offering companionship to shelter**
**guests / playing games on the**
**night, providing breakfast,**
**driving bedding to the next venue**
**and carrying out laundry duties.**
•
**An additional team of 20**
**volunteers supported our**
**Christmas and New Year Shelter**
**which operated for 11**
**consecutive nights.**|
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## **Achievements and Performance**
||SORP reference||
|---|---|---|
|Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|**ECWNS has provided shelter for more**
**than 14 previously homeless guests**
**between the winter months of November**
**& March.**
**Our intervention and support resulted in**
**better physical health for our guests and**
**strengthened wellbeing due to the**
**opportunity to enjoy respite from the**
**exhaustion and stress of**
**homelessness.**
**Due to the stability which the shelter**
**provided, some guests found work &**
**permanent accommodation allowing**
**them to regain independence and**
**maintain their well-being without the**
**risk of homelessness.**
**Metrics:**
**- Sourced permanent accommodation**
**for 6 guests**
**- Raised additional funding to enable a**
**hotel stay of 6 weeks for a shelter guest**
**who was**
**attacked and hospitalised - Supported**
**another guest, hospitalised due to**
**health issue - Secured leave to stay for 2**
**guests, sourcing and paying for legal**
**support - Registered 5 with a GP -**
**Registered 1 with a dentist - Sourced**
**Benefits for 2 - Paid for 1 guest to return**
**to his family in his home country -**
**Accompanied 1 guest to the Job Centre**
**- Facilitated meetings and support for 2**
**guests struggling with needs around**
**addiction and poor mental health**
**In addition to the above, our part-time**
**Shelter Worker has supported an**
**additional 30-40 homeless people in**
**Ealing through her day-to-day liaison**
**with partner agencies.**|
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
|Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|**Our objectives were met.**
**Food, shelter, companionship and**
**signposting were delivered for 5 of the**
**coldest months of the year.**
**We facilitated access for our shelter**
**guests to vital medical, legal and other**
**essential statutory services. We secured**|
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**accommodation for some of our shelter**
**guests.**|
|---|---|---|
|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|**We have exceeded our fundraising**
**target, securing over 80% of income**
**from new income streams. We carry out**
**ongoing research towards our funding**
**pipeline to secure sustainable income**
**from a variety of income streams.**|
|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41||
|Other||**We have developed a stronger**
**relationship with one of our key**
**referring partners, the London Borough**
**of Ealing, who describe our service**
**delivery as,“indispensable”. **|
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## **Financial Review**
|**Financial Review**|||
|---|---|---|
|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**The charity has successfully executed**
**its fundraising plan and restored its**
**cash reserves.**|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**No explicit policy is included in the**
**charity’s constitution that requires this.**|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**12 months**|
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**No explicit policy is included in the**
**charity’s constitution that requires this.**|
|Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**N/A**|
|Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|**None**|
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
|The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|**Our principal source of funds comprises**
**grants from Trusts and Foundations and**
**other grant making bodies. The**
**remainder consists of income from**
**community fundraising efforts (eg Ealing**
**Half Marathon, quizzes etc) and**
**donations from churches.**|
|---|---|---|
|Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|**The key risks in the project comprise:**
**1. Shelter Venue provision**
**Mitigation:**
**a) We regular seek and identify**
**potential new venues to secure**
**and ensure sufficient sustainable**
**shelter provision**
**b) We maintain a large group of**
**volunteers who are able to deliver**
**provision at venues outside of**
**their usual venue, thus enabling**
**the use of the required number of**
**shelter venues.**
**2. Maintenance of finance to support our**
**operational strategy**
**Mitigation:**
**(a) One of our Trustees is a**
**professional fundraiser who**
**applies for funding**
**(b) We are approaching funders**
**to secure additional roles.**
**(c) We are looking for volunteer**
**resource in fundraising**
**3. Retention of staff**
**We operate with a staff turnover of a two**
**to three-year cycle, not least due to the**
**part time nature and nature of yearly**
**contracts attached to our roles.**
**Mitigation:**
**(a) We strive to deliver good staff**
**management practice**
**including monitoring of**|
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**opportunities and appropriate**
**financial remuneration.**
**We review risks quarterly unless issues**
**arise. We recognise we need to improve**
**risk management training for Trustees.**|
|---|---|---|
|A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46||
|Other|||
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## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s
trusts:|||
|---|---|---|
|Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|
Para 1.25|**Constitution**|
|How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**CIO**|
|Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|**Trustees are appointed through**
**nomination by existing trustees.**
**Nominations are assessed based upon**
**the skills, knowledge and experience**
**needed for the effective administration**
**of the charity.**|
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
|Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction
and training of trustees|Para 1.51|**Trustees are onboarded over a period of**
**3-6 months. We are reviewing our**
**procedures around the training of**
**trustees and looking to strengthen this.**|
|---|---|---|
|The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|**Ealing Churches Winter Night Shelter is**
**governed by a Chair and team of**
**voluntary Trustees.**
**During this financial year. staff**
**comprised a part-time Shelter Worker**
**and a part-time Administrator.**
**ECWNS is affiliated with Housing**
**Justice, the national network**
**comprising over 170-night shelters**
**across England.**|
|Relationship with any
related parties|Para 1.51|**During the financial year Ms Gillian**
**Coombe, a serving trustee resigned**
**from the CIO and entered into a contract**
**with the CIO for the supply of services**
**that was permitted by its constitution**
**and in accordance and subject to the**
**conditions in sections 185 to 188 of the**
**Charities Act 2011. Payment of £2,000**
**was made for services rendered & the**
**contract expired. Ms Gillian Coombe re-**
**joined the CIO as a trustee following the**
**completed contract.**|
|Other|||
## **Reference and Administrative details**
Charity name
Ealing Churches Winter Night Shelter
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|Other name the charity uses|ECWNS|
|---|---|
|Registered charity number|1152768|
|Charity’s principal address|Haven Green Baptist Church Castlebar Road London W5
2UP|
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**Director name**
Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity
**Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year**
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## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**
Description of the assets held in this capacity
Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets
## **Additional information (optional)**
## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
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**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
## **Exemptions from disclosure**
Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details
## **Other optional information**
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## **Declarations**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
## **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s)** ~~Fonsi[Biers]~~ **Full name(s)** James Gillespie **Position (eg Secretary, Chair, etc)** Trustee **Date** 23 / 02 / 2026
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**Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
## **Section A Independent Examiner’s Report**
**Report to the trustees/** Charity Name EALING CHURCHES WINTER NIGHT SHELTER **members of On accounts for the year** 30[TH] APRIL 2025 **Charity no 1152768 ended (if any) Set out on pages** (remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets)
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended **30/04/2025** .
- **Responsibilities and** As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation **basis of report** of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”).
I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
**Independent** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have **examiner's statement** come to my attention (other than that disclosed below *) in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:
- accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or
- the accounts do not accord with the accounting records
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
* _Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply._
**Signed: Date:** 24 / 02 / 2026 ~~|~~ **Name:** Hannah Consterdine-Moore ~~Ps~~ **Relevant professional** ACA **qualification(s) or body (if any):**
**Address:** 53 Addison Gardens, W14 0DP
**Section B Disclosure** ~~Pe~~ Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).
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||**Ealing Churches Winter Night Shelter**|**Ealing Churches Winter Night Shelter**|**Ealing Churches Winter Night Shelter**|**Ealing Churches Winter Night Shelter**||||**1152768**|**1152768**|||||
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|**Section A Receipts and payments**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**Endowment**
**funds**
**Total funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**to the nearest £**
**to the nearest £**
**to the nearest £**
**A1 Receipts**
**01/05/2024**
**30/04/2025**
**Receipts and payments accounts**
Period start date
Period end date
**To**
**For the period**
**from**
ee ee ee||||||||||||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**
**CC16a**||
|Donations Legacies and Grants|30,060||51,813||**-**|**-**|**-**||**81,873**|**81,873**||**36,690**|**36,690**|
|Fundraising Events|36,502||-||**-**|**-**|**-**||**36,502**|**36,502**||**711**|**711**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|_AR)_**66,562**||**51,813**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**118,375**|**118,375**||**37,401**|**37,401**|
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total receipts_**
**66,562**
**51,813**
**-**
**118,375**
**37,401**
**A3 Payments**
————~~——~~||||||||||||||
|Wages/Salaries National Insurance &
Pension Costs|**5,364**||**27,557**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**32,920**|**32,920**||**34,089**|**34,089**|
|Guest Hotel, Food, Telephone &
Transport Costs
Administrative Costs|**8,158**
**5,366**||**4,640**
**555**||**-**
**-**|**-**
**-**|**-**
**-**||**12,798**
**5,921**|**12,798**
**5,921**||**13,916**
**1,881**|**13,916**
**1,881**|
|Telephone, internet and postage|**911**||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**911**|**911**||**494**|**494**|
|Subscriptions|**411**||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**411**|**411**||**611**|**611**|
|Insurance|**603**||**-**||||||**603**|**603**||**576**|**576**|
|Laundry & Guest Consumables|**876**||**-**||||||**876**|**876**||**364**|**364**|
|Rent Support|**-**||**-**||||||**-**|**-**||**4,888**|**4,888**|
|Donations and giving|**-**||**-**||||||**-**|**-**||**250**|**250**|
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||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**21,688**||**32,752**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**54,439.94**|**54,439.94**||**57,070**|**57,070**|
|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**
**Purchase of fixed assets**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total payments_**
**21,688**
**32,752**
**-**
**54,440**
**57,070**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**44,873**
**19,061**
**- 63,935**
**- 19,668**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**- -**
**-**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**23,737**
**- -**
**23,737**
**43,405**
**_Cash funds this year end_**
**68,610**
**19,061**
**- 87,671**
**23,737**
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
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