## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 3[rd] October 2023 To 31[st] December 2024** **Charity name: GUISEPPE CONLON HOUSE CIO Charity registration number: 1205029** ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**To relieve poverty, financial hardship and**
**homelessness by providing housing,**
**pastoral and practical support and**
**education of the public on the nature,**
**causes and effects of poverty and**
**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|**The Charity was initially set up to take on**
**the operation of the house of hospitality**
**at 49 Mattison Road N4, and the church**
**building next door at St Augustine’s**
**Church. This main work of this project is**
**to provide accommodation and support**
**for destitute asylum seekers and other**
**homeless migrants. Previously the**
**project was operated by the London**
**Catholic Worker Unincorporated**
**Association (LCW). The property referred**
**to is provided on a peppercorn rent lease**
**by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of**
**Westminster. During the period covered**
**by this report, we were still waiting for**
**Westminster Diocese to provide us with a**
**new lease in the name of the Charity, so**
**that the Charity could take over**
**responsibility for the project. While we**
**were waiting for the new lease, the**
**Charity trustees co-operated with London**
**Catholic Worker to ensure the project and**
**property were in good order to be ready**
**for the handover.**
**Due to delays in the issuance of the lease**
**in the name of the Charity by**
**Westminster Archdiocese, the Charity**
**was not able to begin operating the**
**project during the period of the lease.**
**However, the new lease was issued and**
**signed shortly after the end of the period**
**covered by this report.**
**Consequently, the Charity was not able to**| |||**directly fulfil its objectives during the**
**period of this report, except in as much**
**as it was preparing to do so. This**
**preparation consisted of opening the**
**bank accounts, receiving some initial**
**donations for future use, and supporting**
**the LCW Association in making sure the**
**project was fit for purpose and ready for**
**operation when the charity did take over**
**responsibility for the project.**| |---|---|---| |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, and**
**consider that this is met by the work**
**done to prepare for taking over the**
**Mattison Road project, and in co-**
**operating with the LCW to ensure the**
**good order of that project ready for the**
**Charity to take over its operation.**| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||SORP reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|**n/a**| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|**n/a**| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**Other than the trustees, the Charity did**
**not have any volunteers directly, all**
**volunteering came via LCW during the**
**period of the report. But once the project**
**was transferred to the charity, shortly**
**after the reporting period, the charity**
**relied on a volunteer live-in community,**
**as well as other volunteers, for all the day**
**to day work of the Charity. Other**
**specialised work, for example vital**
**maintenance work, was carried out by**
**contractors, where volunteers were not**
**available.**| |Other||**n/a**| ## **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|**The achievements of the Charity during**
**this period consist primarily in getting**
**ready to take over the work of operating**
**the project at Mattison Road, and**
**supporting the LCW in getting ready for**
**the transfer, so that subsequently, the**
**project, under the control and**
**supervision of the Charity trustees, has**
**been able to continue providing**
**accommodation and support to homeless**
**and destitute asylum seekers and**
**migrants.**
**During 2023-4, the project accommodated**
**between 8 and12 homeless adult men in a**
**community house setting. Shortly after**
**the period of this report, after the new**
**lease had been signed in the name of the**
**Charity, we were able to open a new night**
**shelter in the former church hall, for**
**another 10 men, in addition to the 10**
**accommodated in the community house**
**part of the project.**
**The first and most fundamental level of**
**our work and achievements includes**
**providing accommodation, food and**
**other basic needs for those who stay with**
**us. That foundation enables us to also**
**assist further those we accommodate in a**
**number of ways: we work with their**
**caseworkers to help resolve their**
**housing and immigration issues: we**
**provide personal and emotional support:**
**befriending: signposting to other**
**services: building community to**
**counteract isolation, loneliness and**
**depression: and advocacy. We are also**
**able to provide small destitution**
**allowances so that the men who we**
**accommodate can have the dignity of**
**deciding how best to meet their own**
**needs, and allowing them more**
**possibilities to participate in wider**
**society.**
**The above work constitutes significant**
**achievements on behalf of those we**
**serve. This work provides significant**
**public benefit by meeting the needs of a**
**group of men among the most**
**marginalised and stigmatised groups in**
**our society, who also have no income.**
**Because we rely entirely on volunteers,**
**including a live-in community, with no**
**paid staff, we are able to provide this**
**benefit at extremely good value for our**
**donors and supporters.**| |---|---|---| **Additional information (optional)** ## You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |
Achievements against
objectives set|
Para 1.41|
**Our objectives for the period reported on**
**were to co-operate with the LCW to**
**ensure the project was working well and**
**ready to be transferred to the Charity: to**
**prepare to take over the project at**
**Mattison Road: and to achieve the**
**transfer of responsibility. The first two**
**were achieved during the reporting**
**period, the third was achieved shortly**
**after the end of the reporting period.**| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|**Our financial objectives were to make**
**sure sufficient funds were available to**
**continue the work of the Mattison Road**
**project, once the transfer was completed.**
**This was achieved. The Charity further**
**received a legacy which has given us an**
**extra degree of financial security during**
**the months after the period being**
**reported on.**| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|**n/a**| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|**At the end of the period, our bank**
**balances totalled approximately £45,000.**
**Due to our co-operation with the LCW, we**
**knew that ongoing income from donors**
**would be sufficient for our needs going**
**forward.**| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**We aim to have financial reserves in the**
**form of bank balances equivalent to 1**
**year of turnover. This is to protect the**
**operation of the Charity against**
**unexpected costs arising, and short term**
**declines in donor income. Because we do**
**not rely mainly on grants or contracts,**
**but on many ongoing individual donors,**
**we believe our income is relatively stable,**
**and so we do not need larger reserves.**| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**£45,000**| |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|**Uncertainties and risks to the future**
**continuance of the charity as a going**
**concern consist of: lack of volunteers,**
**especially the live in community:**
**extraordinary building maintenance costs**
**beyond our capacity to meet: and**
**Westminster Archdiocese not renewing**
**the current peppercorn rent lease on the**
**Mattison Road properties we currently**
**use. At this point, we are confident these**
**circumstances will not arise in the**
**foreseeable future. Of course we cannot**
**predict possible ‘acts of God’ which**
**could severely damage the buildings we**
**use for our work. However, appropriate**
**insurance is in place to mitigate these**
**and other risks.**| ## **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 income for the**
**Charity during the reporting period was a**
**legacy from the estate of John Newell. In**
**the near future, we expect our income to**
**come from: individual donors: an Annual**
**Passionist Partnership grant from the**
**Congregation of the Passion: a grant**
**from the LCW: and a legacy from Brian**
**Arthur.**| |---|---|---| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|**n/a**| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|**As above**| |---|---|---| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**Trust Deed**| |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|**Appointment by vote of existing trustees**| ## **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|
**Due diligence is carried out regarding all**
**new Trustees, as recommended by the**
**Charity Commission. New Trustees are**
**sent and required to read the Charity**
**Commission information regarding the**
**duties and responsibilities of Charity**
**Trustees.**| |---|---|---| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|**The Charity is managed by the Charity**
**Trustees, with the day to day work being**
**carried out and organised by the live-in**
**volunteer community, with the assistance**
**of other volunteers and the Trustees.**
**The Community Leads co-ordinate the**
**work of the live-in community, and report**
**to and co-operate with the Trustees.**
**The Charity is a member of NACCOM (No**
**Accommodation Network): the Housing**
**Justice Night Shelter Network: the**
**Passionist Partners Project .**| |Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|**During the period being reported on, the**
**Charity cooperated with LCW, as stated**
**above, in order to meet our charitable**
**purposes.**| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Giuseppe Conlon House CIO| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|| |Registered charity number|1205029| |Charity’s principal address|49 Mattison Road| |---|---| ||London N4 1BG| ||| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year**|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Martin Newell|Chair||| ||Alison Kerr|Secretary||| ||Barbara Kentish|||| ||Tom Dennehy-
Caddick|||| ||Peter Timmer|Treasurer|From 26 / 2 / 25|| ||Joseph Ryan||From 26 / 2 / 25|| ||Jack Weeks||From 26 / 2 / 25|| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| ## – 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 n/a Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the n/a assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for safe custody and n/a segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** |**Names and**|**addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**addresses of advisers (Optional information)**| |---|---|---| |**Type of**
**adviser**|**Name**
**Address**|| |**Solicitors**||| |**External**
**examiner**
**s**|Andrew Topp|167 Cornwall Road, London, N15 5AX| |||| |||| ## **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** Thomas Frost : Moya Barnett ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details ## **n/a** ## **Other optional information** ## **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** > **Signature(s)** Peter Timmer Martin Newell Peter Robin Timmer **Full name(s)** Martin John Newell **Position (eg Secretary,** Chair Treasurer **Chair, etc) Date** 7/10/25 **GIUSEPPE CONLON HOUSE CIO** **1205029** ## **Receipts and payments accountspts and payments accountsts and payments accountspayments accountsayments accountsyments accountsments accounts** **Receipts and payments accountspts and payments accountsts and payments accountspayments accountsayments accountsyments accountsments accounts CC16a For the period** 03/10/2023 31/12/2024 **To from** ## **Section A Receipts and payments** |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest**
**£**
**40,000**
**5,000**
**23**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**45,023**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**45,023**
**3**
**35**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**38**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**38**
**44,985**
**-**
**-**
**44,985**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**40,000**
**5,000**
**23**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**45,023**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**45,023**
**3**
**35**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**38**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**38**
**44,985**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**40,000**
**5,000**
**23**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**45,023**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**45,023**
**3**
**35**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**38**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**38**
**44,985**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Legacies|**40,000**|||||**-**| |Donations|**5,000**|||||**-**| |Interest|**23**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**45,023**|||||**-**| |||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||| |None|**-**|||||| ||**-**|||||**-**| |**_Sub total_**|**-**|||||**-**| |**_Total receipts_ **
**A3 Payments**||||||| |||||||**-**| |||||||| |Professional fees|**3**|||||**-**| |Bank charges|**35**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| ||**-**|||||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**38**|||||**-**| |||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||| |None|**-**|||||| ||**-**|||||| |**_Sub total_ **|**-**|||||**-**| |**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||| |||||||**-**| |||||||| ||**44,985**|**-**|**-**|**44,985**||**-**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**| ||**44,985**|**-**|**-**|**44,985**||**-**| ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)|**Details**
CAF Bank
Co-Op bank
1|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**42,979**
**2,005**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||CAF Bank|**42,979**|**-**|**-**| ||Co-Op bank
1|**2,005**|**-**|**-**
07/10/2025| ||||**-**||**-**||**-**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**_Total cash funds_**||**44,984**||**-**||**-**| ||(agree balances with receipts and payments||||||| ||account(s))||Agreement Error||OK||OK| ||||**Unrestricted**||**Restricted**||**Endowment**| ||||**funds**||**funds**||**funds**| ||**Details**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**| |**B2 Other monetary assets**|None||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||||**-**||**-**||**-**| ||**Details**||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |**B3 Investment assets**|None||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||**Details**||**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||**Current value**
**(optional)**| |**B4 Assets retained for the**|None||||**-**||**-**| |**charity’s own use**|||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||||**-**||**-**| ||||**Fund to which**||**Amount due**||**When due**| ||**Details**||**liability relates**||**(optional)**||**(optional)**| |**B5 Liabilities**|None||||**-**||| ||||||**-**||| ||||||**-**||| ||||||**-**||| ||||||**-**||| |Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees|Signature||Print|Name|||Date of
approval| ||||||||| ||||||||| CCXX R2 accounts (SS) 07/10/2025 2 CHARITY COMMISSION FOR ENGLAND AND WALES Independent examiner's report on the accounts **• Section A Independent Examingr's Report Report to the trusteesl m6mb&rs of Guiseppe Cor71on House CIO On accounts fr•r the year endèd 3111212024 Charity no lif any) 1205029 Sgt out on pages I report to the trustees on my examination of the a¢¢ounts olthe above charffy I'lhe Tru5t°I for the year ended 3111212024, Responsibilities and As the charity Iruslees of the Trust, you are responsible for the Preparation basis of report of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of tho Charities Act 2011 Iyhg A¢t'i. I report in ￿spect of my examination of the TTUSt's accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Ad and in carrying out my examination. I have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 14515llbl of the Ad. I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause lo 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 Independent ¢xamin9￿$ statement 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 lo be reached. Please delete the words in the brackets rfthey do not apply. Signed: Date: 2410912025 Name: Andrew Topp Relevant professional qualificationlsl or body lif anyl- Address: 167 Cornwall Road London N155AX Section B Dis¢losure Only complete If the examiner needs lo highlight matters of Con￿rn (see CC32, Independent examingtion of charity accounts.. ditsctions and guidance for examinersl_ IER October 2018 IER October 2018 **Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** . 2 **October 2018** **IER**