## **Trustees’ Annual Report (including Directors’ report) for the period**
**From: 1 July 2025 to 30[th] June 2026**
**Charity name: Bexhill & Rother Homeless Unity Group (HUG) CIO**
**Charity registration number: 1182306**
**Company number: N/A**
## **Objectives and activities**
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|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**The objects of the CIO are for the**
**public benefit and are based on**
**the Christian principles of loving,**
**caring, and standing with those**
**most in need:**
**1. To relieve the charitable needs**
**of people who are homeless, at**
**risk of homelessness or**
**recovering from homelessness**
**and who either have a local**
**connection to Rother District or**
**who are currently present in**
**Bexhill Town Wards, East**
**Sussex, by working with such**
**people and others to provide or**
**support the provision of support**
**services, including where**
**appropriate, for their pet**
**animals.**
**2. For the avoidance of doubt**
**‘homelessness’ is understood to**
**mean a lack of safe, secure,**
**affordable and permanent**
**accommodation.**|
|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|**HUG runs a ‘drop in’ centre at St**
**Barnabas church in Sea Road Bexhill on**
**three days a week, where Homeless**
**people can get a meal, a shower and**
**change of clothes if required.**
**HUG also helps in trying to get homeless**
**people accommodation, so they do not**
**have to live on the streets and those at**
**risk of losing their home.**|
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|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**The Trustees confirm that they have had**
**regard to the Charity Commission’s**
**guidance on public benefit.**|
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## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
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SORP reference||
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|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|**With only one part time paid employee,**
**the hours undertaken by volunteers are**
**essential to keep the charity running**|
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## **Achievements and performance**
|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|Para 1.20|**We have about 10 to 15 volunteers that**
**help to run the charity.**
**We have kept going the drop-in centre at**
**St Barnabas Church in Bexhill on three**
**days a week.**
**Once guests are known to HUG, the**
**charity would continue to help them,**
**wherever possible, on a ‘one to one’**||
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benefits to society as a **basis.** whole. **The charity has helps with the welfare of any pets the homeless keep and try and see that the pets are inoculated and any of their health needs are also met.**
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## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
Para 1.41 Achievements against objectives set Para 1.41 Performance of fundraising activities against objectives set Para 1.41 Investment performance against objectives Other
## **Financial review**
|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**The charity has to do all its own**
**fundraising, till any alternative sources of**
**funding can be found.**
**This is a great challenge as it diverts**
**resources away from our main objective**||
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|||**i.e. helping the homeless and their pets**
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|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**The charity tries to hold about 12 months**
**expenses in reserve, in case of need.**|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**At the reporting date reserves were :-**
**Unrestricted Reserves £27377**
**(Restricted funds £0)**
**(Against total Expenses this year £41258)**|
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**N/A**|
|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|**The charity needs to fundraise to keep**
**going.**
**The charity also needs to recruit and**
**maintain sufficient volunteers, with the**
**necessary skills, to properly run the**
**charity. This is steadily getting more**
**urgent as the existing volunteers grow**
**older.**|
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## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
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The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|
Para 1.47|
**Donations from the public**
**Grants**
**Fund raising activities**|
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|Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46||
|A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46||
|Other|||
## **Structure, governance and management**
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trusts:|||
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|Type of governing document:
for example,trust deed,
memorandum and articles of
association etc|Para 1.25|**The Charity is governed by its**
**constitution document**|
|How is the charity
constituted?
for example limited company,
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|**The Trustees would appoint any new**
**Trustee, having regard to the skills they**
**could bring, against the needs of the**
**Charity.**|
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## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
Para 1.51 Policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees Para 1.51 The charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works Para 1.51 Relationship with any related parties Other
## **Reference and administrative details**
|Charity name|**Bexhill & Rother Homeless Unity Group (HUG) CIO**|
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|Other name the charity uses|**It also uses its shortened name‘HUG’**|
|Registered charity number|**1182306**|
|Charity’s principal address|**56A Haslam Crescent Bexhill-on-Sea TN40 2QH**|
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**year**|**Name of person (or body)**
**entitled to appoint trustee(if any)**|
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||Neil Hobden|Treasurer & acting
Chairperson|||
||Councillor Gareth
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||Pauline Goubert|Project Manager|||
||John Price||||
||Joyce Streeter||||
||Benjamin Gibson||||
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## – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved
## **Director name**
Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity
**Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year**
## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**
|Description of the assets
held in this capacity|Nil|
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|Name and objects of the
charity on whose behalf the
assets are held and how this
falls within the custodian
charity’s objects|N/A|
|Details of arrangements for
safe custody and
segregation of such assets
from the charity’s own assets|Any such funds are segregated in the accounts|
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## **Names and addresses of advisers (optional information)**
|Type of adviser|Name
Address|Name
Address|
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|**Independent**
**Scrutineer**|David Winchester||
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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**
## **Declarations**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report (including directors’ report) above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees/directors**
Neil Hobden **Signature(s)** Pauline Goubert Neil Hobden **Full name(s)** Pauline Goubert **Position (for example** Project manager Treasurer & Acting Chairman **Secretary, Chair, etc)**
**Date** 22[nd] August 2026