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Chichester Heart For Homeless

Country
England & Wales
Charity number
1185120
Status
Registered
Reporting
Up to date Last filed Oct. 21, 2025. Filing history
Registered
Sept. 2, 2019
Legal form
CIO

Address

Address
St. Pancras Church
101 St. Pancras
Chichester
PO19 7LJ

Activities

We work with churches of different denominations to serve homeless people in the city of Chichester. We do this by providing hot meals in church premises, with an emphasis on welcome and hospitality. We have employed an outreach worker and trained volunteers. We work with other charitable and statutory agencies to help direct people who are homeless to appropriate sources of support.

Objects: (1) The prevention or the relief of poverty among people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness in the locality by: (a) identifying and serving their material and social needs; (b) providing advice and support to people who are homeless, including in respect of housing and employment; and (c) supporting and training members of local church communities to further objects (1) (a) and (b). (2) To advance the Christian religion in the locality for the benefit of people who are homeless by: (a) identifying and serving their pastoral and spiritual needs; (b) helping people who are homeless, if they choose to do so, to access and to participate in Christian teaching, worship and ministry; and(c) supporting and training members of local church communities to further objects (2) (a) and (b). (3) In this clause: (a) “the locality” means the City of Chichester and such other areas within England as the charity trustees may decide from time to time; and (b) “people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness” includes any person who is currently homeless, who is insecurely housed or who has previously been homeless.

Classification

How
Provides Services, Provides Advocacy/advice/information
What
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Religious Activities
Who
Other Defined Groups

Geography

Local Authority
West Sussex

Finances

Period end Filed Income Expenditure
March 31, 2025 Oct. 21, 2025On time £120,609 £60,676
March 31, 2024 Sept. 13, 2024On time £81,821 £58,218
March 31, 2023 Jan. 8, 2024On time £62,066 £53,145
March 31, 2022 Jan. 12, 2023On time £19,993 £40,046
March 31, 2021 Jan. 19, 2022On time £49,331 £29,561

Trustees

Name Appointed
Fiona Anne Ellis (Chair) May 2, 2024
Andrew Haddow Sept. 24, 2026
Julian Roberts March 31, 2025
Malcolm Sedgwick Watts Sept. 29, 2020
Matthew Lee Witts June 1, 2026
Revd Canon Vanessa Baron July 19, 2022