BIRMINGHAM COMMUNITY HOSTING NETWORK
Charity number: 1151763
Charity reporting is up to date (on time)
Charity overview
Activities - how the charity spends its money
Providing support through community hospitality to vulnerable asylum seekers in the West Midlands, including: - Hosting Network: short term accommodation for destitute asylum seekers in the homes of volunteers - Family Befriending: befriending scheme for young refugees living the UK without their families
Income and expenditure
Data for financial year ending 01 April 2025
Total income: £94,953
Total expenditure: £95,600
People
6 Trustee(s)
22 Volunteer(s)
Employees with total benefits over £60,000
No employees have total benefits over £60k for this charityFundraising
No information available
Trading
This charity does not have any trading subsidiaries.
Trustee payments
No trustees receive any remuneration, payments or benefits from the charity.
What, who, how, where
What the charity does:
- General Charitable Purposes
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
- Accommodation/housing
- Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity
Who the charity helps:
- Other Defined Groups
How the charity helps:
- Provides Services
Where the charity operates:
- Birmingham City
- Coventry City
- Dudley
- Sandwell
- Solihull
- Walsall
Governance
Registration history:
- 25 April 2013: Standard registration
Organisation type:
Other
Other names:
- BIRCH (Working name)
Gift aid:
Recognised by HMRC for gift aid
Other regulators:
No information available
Policies:
- Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
- Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
- Complaints handling
- Complaints policy and procedures
- Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
- Financial reserves policy and procedures
- Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
- Internal risk management policy and procedures
- Investing charity funds policy and procedures
- 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
Land and property:
This charity does not own and/or lease land or property
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
6 Trustee(s)
| Name | Role | Date of appointment | Other trusteeships | Reporting status of other trusteeships | ||||
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| Andrew Peter Jolly | Trustee | 22 November 2024 |
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| The Reverend Prebendary David Ellis Newsome | Trustee | 01 March 2024 |
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| Isobel Shirley Knowles | Trustee | 26 July 2023 |
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| Emma Hawthorne | Trustee | 15 May 2022 |
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| Katherine Green | Trustee | 25 August 2021 |
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| Christopher Colin Benfield | Trustee | 09 June 2017 |
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Financial history
Financial period end date
| Income / Expenditure | 01/04/2021 | 01/04/2022 | 01/04/2023 | 01/04/2024 | 01/04/2025 | ||
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Total gross income | £13.69k | £56.76k | £68.68k | £118.19k | £94.95k | |
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Total expenditure | £39.44k | £44.13k | £69.26k | £80.12k | £95.60k | |
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Income from government contracts | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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Income from government grants | N/A | N/A | N/A | £26.78k | N/A |
Accounts and annual returns
This table shows the charity's record of submitting annual returns, accounts and trustees' annual report (TAR) for the last five financial periods.
| Title | Reporting year | Date received | Received | Download |
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| Annual return | 01 April 2025 | 08 October 2025 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 01 April 2025 | 08 October 2025 | On time | |
| Annual return | 01 April 2024 | 08 January 2025 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 01 April 2024 | 08 January 2025 | On time | |
| Annual return | 01 April 2023 | 31 January 2024 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 01 April 2023 | 31 January 2024 | On time | |
| Annual return | 01 April 2022 | 30 January 2023 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 01 April 2022 | 30 January 2023 | On time | |
| Annual return | 01 April 2021 | 23 January 2022 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 01 April 2021 | Not required |