The Project
Charity overview
Activities - how the charity spends its money
The Project is an Advice Quality Standard accredited information, advice and guidance provider. We provide advice and casework relating to homelessness and income maximisation. We are members of Advice UK, the Institute of Money Advisors, CPAG and are Financial Conduct Authority regulated.
Income and expenditure
Data for financial year ending 31 March 2024
Total income includes £107,289 from 2 government contract(s)
People
4 Trustee(s)
3 Volunteer(s)
Employees with total benefits over £60,000
No employees have total benefits over £60k for this charityFundraising
Trading
Trustee payments
What, who, how, where
- Education/training
- Disability
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
- Accommodation/housing
- Economic/community Development/employment
- Children/young People
- Elderly/old People
- People With Disabilities
- The General Public/mankind
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Birmingham City
- Worcestershire
Governance
- 04 December 1992: Standard registration
- S B Y H P (Working name)
- SOUTH BIRMINGHAM YOUNG HOMELESS PROJECT (Previous name)
- Financial Conduct Authority
- Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
- Complaints handling
- Complaints policy and procedures
- Conflicting interests
- Financial reserves policy and procedures
- Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
- Internal risk management policy and procedures
- Investing charity funds policy and procedures
- Paying staff
- Risk management
- Safeguarding policy and procedures
- Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
- Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
- Social media policy and procedures
- Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
- Trustee expenses policy and procedures
- Volunteer management
Trustees
Trustees are the people responsible for controlling the work, management and administration of the charity on behalf of its beneficiaries. Generally trustees are treasurer, chair, board member etc. The trustees are responsible for keeping this list up to date and can do this by updating their details as they happen through the online service
4 Trustee(s)
| Name | Role | Date of appointment | Other trusteeships | Reporting status of other trusteeships | ||||
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| PAUL MASON | Chair |
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| Catherine Groom | Trustee | 06 May 2025 |
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| Lucy Loveless | Trustee | 05 June 2016 |
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| PHILIP OSBORN | Trustee |
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Financial history
Financial period end date
| Income / Expenditure | 31/03/2020 | 31/03/2021 | 31/03/2022 | 31/03/2023 | 31/03/2024 | ||
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Total gross income | £255.47k | £340.72k | £302.32k | £278.90k | £348.49k | |
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Total expenditure | £238.93k | £312.56k | £361.65k | £256.36k | £243.40k | |
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Income from government contracts | N/A | N/A | N/A | £69.18k | £107.29k | |
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Income from government grants | £25.00k | £25.00k | £50.00k | £2.00k | N/A |
Accounts and annual returns
| Title | Reporting year | Date received | Received | Download |
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| Annual return | 31 March 2024 | 10 February 2025 | 10 days late | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2024 | 10 February 2025 | 10 days late | |
| Annual return | 31 March 2023 | 11 April 2024 | 71 days late | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2023 | 11 April 2024 | 71 days late | |
| Annual return | 31 March 2022 | 25 May 2023 | 114 days late | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2022 | 25 May 2023 | 114 days late | |
| Annual return | 31 March 2021 | 19 January 2023 | 353 days late | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2021 | 19 January 2023 | 353 days late | |
| Annual return | 31 March 2020 | 06 January 2021 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2020 | 06 January 2021 | On time |