Company Registration Number: CE016169 Charity Registration Number: 1181511
HOLY TRINITY NIGHT SHELTER & COMMUNITY OUTREACH
TRUSTEES’ REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST DECEMBER 2024
HOLY TRINITY NIGHT SHELTER & COMMUNITY OUTREACH T **RUSTEES’ REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2024**
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## **Achievements and Performance**
This year‘s outreach support was provided to individuals who were at risk of becoming homeless and rough sleepers during the months of March to November. Overnight accommodation was opened from November to March. We had 19 guests in total who stayed from one night to the whole season. Six are in settled accommodation, four are in Temporary Accommodation (TA, provided by East Herts Council) three are with friends or Family, two are sleeping rough, one in prison and three whom we have no contact with at present. We did not refuse anyone who was referred, or we brought in off the street. HTNS coordinates with East Herts District Council and their Rough Sleeper Unit.
We gained our Bronze award with Housing Justice and are working towards the silver accreditation. Many of the improvements to gain the silver award are about planning for the future and thinking about future policies and procedures.
Despite its many challenges I feel that the 2024/25 season was a successful one. One of the many challenges we face is having enough volunteers for all the shifts especially night shifts so if you feel you would like to know more about these or are able to help please approach us over some cake later.
Our success is also directly linked to the hard work of our team, both staff and volunteers. We have made many changes this year which always has an impact on everyone. I’d like to personally thank all the staff and all the volunteers for their energy, commitment and consistency. Our volunteers are at the heart of what we do and their generosity with their time is what keeps us open.
HTNS also continues to be well supported by the local community and because of the commitment of our amazing Volunteers, we were able to stay open every night, evening and lunchtime for the duration of the winter months, and also had a beautiful Christmas Day lunch for Guests, those who we have helped and Volunteers, staying open all Christmas, Boxing and New Years days.
HTNS coordinates with East Herts District Council and their Rough Sleeper Unit and we were lucky to have a new clinic with EHDC every other week and our team managed to extend our outreach support to all year round. The complex nature of everyone we helped was evident this year, alcohol and drugs, combined with ever present Mental Health issues, were again at the forefront. We had a CGL (drug/alcohol service) worker, Rebecca, visit on a regular basis which has been a massive asset, and she continues to attend on Mondays. Along with Karen & Georgina, two fantastic Nurses, who have provided medical attention and advice to our Guests, and us! Ben, a social prescriber also treated the guests to a visit and supplied a much appreciated takeaway.
At this moment, we are still supporting all those who have moved into alternative accommodation and those we are still in contact with. In the past year we have found one missing person and got them back into hospital for vital treatment, helped two young people return to their homes, attended numerous Rough-Sleeper alerts through StreetLink, and been on hand to provide essential items to anybody who turns up at HTNS.
## **Public Benefit**
The Trustees confirm that they have referred to the guidance in the Charity Commission’s general guidance on public benefit when reviewing the charity’s objectives and activities and in planning future activities.
It is the judgement of the Trustees that activities in pursuit of the above objectives fully meet the public benefit test, which they have kept in mind in operational planning.
## **Fundraising**
Fundraising statement Section 162a of the Charities Act 2011 requires charities to make a statement regarding fundraising activities.
The legislation defines fundraising as “soliciting or otherwise procuring money or other property for charitable purposes”. Such amounts receivable are presented in our accounts as donations and legacies.
We have not used the services of any professional fundraiser. We rely on the generosity of local business and local people. During this and the previous year no complaints or issues have arisen as a result of fundraising activities.
## **Principal risks and uncertainties**
The principal risk is revenue fund raising as it may prove difficult to identify regular income over the next few years. Fund raising is imperative this year as we will not be receiving a large amount from a closing trust and that we will have to start looking at the possibility of formalising our fundraising such as applying for more and larger grants and possibly using more professional fundraising help.
## **Financial Review**
Total income was £136,608 & total costs were £77,861 in the year ending December 2023.
Donations from individuals went down considerably in 2024.
Donations were in the main from local charitable concerns such as religious bodies, Rotarians and local and international companies.
Costs have risen, extra costs were incurred in 2024 assisting guests into more permanent accommodation.
## **Reserves Policy**
In January 2024, the Trustees agreed to a reserve set to 6 months of expenditure. Mid 2024, following an increase in costs, in particular salaries, a reserve policy of £45,000 was considered to be sufficient. Total cash held as at 31 December 2024 was £164,344.
## **Plans for the future**
It is the intention of the trustees to continue to operate in the next year as may be permitted having regard to the facilities available and to maintain and improve on the building as necessary.
**Holy Trinity Night Shelter & Community Outreach**
**1181511**
**Recei ts and a ments accounts p p y** 1st January 2024 31st December 2024 **For the period from To**
**CC16a**
## **Section A Receipts and payments**
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Unrestricted funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Restricted funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Restricted funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Endowment funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Endowment funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Donations(individual)|**77,861**||**-**||**-**||**21,816**||**-**|
|Donations(organisations)|**35,437**||**-**||**-**||**35,437**||**-**|
|Donations(closure of charitable trust)|**69,828**||**-**||**-**||**69,828**||**-**|
|Investmentprofit|**3,842**||||||**3,842**|||
|Grants|**5,686**||**-**||**-**||**5,686**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**136,608**||**-**||**-**||**136,608**||**59,006**|
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|**A2 Asset and investment sales, (see**
**table).**||||||||||
||**-**|||||||||
||**-**||||||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**|**-**||||||||**-**|
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**||||||||||
||||||||||**59,006**|
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|Temporaryhotel accomodation|**1,092**||**-**||**-**||||**-**|
|Energy& water costs|**5,852**||**-**||**-**||||**-**|
|Maintenance and refurbishment|**9,917**||**-**||**-**||||**-**|
|Wages|**32,628**||**-**||**-**||||**-**|
|Pensions|**1,395**||**-**||**-**||||**-**|
|Supplies|**8,879**||**-**||**-**||||**-**|
|Travel|**1,269**||**-**||**-**||||**-**|
|Insurance|**2,336**||**-**||**-**||||**-**|
|Communications|**982**||**-**||**-**||||**-**|
|Rates & rent|**1,839**||**-**||**-**||||**-**|
|Cleaningcosts|**5,172**||**-**||**-**||||**-**|
|Accountancycharges|**3,060**||**-**||**-**||||**-**|
|Other misc|**3,441**||**-**||**-**||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **|**77,861**||**-**||**-**||||**49,615**|
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**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment purchases,**
**(see table)**||||||||||
|Laptops|**2,080**|||||||||
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|**_Sub total_ **|**2,080**||||||||**-**|
|**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||||||
||||||||||**49,615**|
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||**56,667**||**-**||**-**||**56,667**||**9,391**|
||**-**|
|**-**|
|**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**103,732**||**3,945**||**-**||**107,677**||**-**|
||**160,399**||**3,945**||**-**||**164,344**|||
## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B1 Cash funds**
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)|**Details**
Bank and savings accounts
Savings accounts
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments account(s))
**Details**|**Details**
Bank and savings accounts
Savings accounts
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments account(s))
**Details**|**Unrestricted funds**
**to nearest £**|**Unrestricted funds**
**to nearest £**|**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**|**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||||**86,612**||**3,945**||**-**|
||||**73,787**||**-**||**-**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||||**160,399**||**3,945**||**-**|
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**funds**
**to nearest £**|
||||**-**||**-**||**-**|
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the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**
**B4 Assets retained for the charity’s**
**own use**
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**Details**
**Details**
Laptops
Office furniture||**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
Unrestricted
**-**
Unrestricted
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which liability**
**relates**
**Amount due (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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Print Name
Michelle Jackson||||**Current value**
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
10/30/2025
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CHARITY COMMISSION
FOR ENGLAND AND WALES
Independent examiner's
report on the accounts
Section A
Independent Examiner's Report
Report to the trusteesj
members of
Holy Trinity Night Shelter & Communty Outreach
On accounts for the year
ended
31 December 2024
Charity no
(if any)
1181511
Set out on pages
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounls of the above
charity (Ihe Trusf) for the year ended
Responsibilltles and As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation
basis of report of the accounts in accordance wtth the requirements of the Charilies Act
2011 ('the Acf).
I report in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried out
under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carying out my examination, I
have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission
under section 14515){bl of the Act.
I have completed my examination. I confimi thal no material matters have
come to my attention {
') in connection with
the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material
respect..
accounting records were not kept in accordance wilh section 130 of
the Act or
the accounts do not accord wilh the accounting records
Independent
examinevs statement
I have no concems and have come across no olher 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 brackats rf they do not apply.
Signed:
Date:
TuAL2os
Name:
Relevant professional
qualification{s) or body
(if any):
l*/ £r14L4AD WAL£S ) .
Address:
lJJLLrÉT
IER
October 2018
Section B
Disclosure
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32,
Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for
exarniners).
Give here brief detalls of
any items that the
examiner wishes to
disclose.
IER
October 2018