Registered charity · Essex
The Outhouse
- 6 trustees
- Income £145k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Arts/culture/heritage/science
- Where
- Essex
- Website
- www.theouthouse.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 1991
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£145k£323k
- 2024£281k£275k
- 2023£258k£275k
Earlier years
- 2022£661k£173k
- 2021£265k£138k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 6%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
A) TO SUPPORT PEOPLE WHO MAY BE EXPERIENCING MENTAL, EMOTIONAL OR OTHER CRISIS DUE TO THEIR HOMOSEXUAL, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENDER NATURE, OR WHO MAY BE IN DOUBT AS TO THEIR SEXUAL IDENTITY, AND TO WORK TO PREVENT THEIR ISOLATION AND HELP THEM REALISE THEIR FULL POTENTIAL. B) TO SUPPORT PEOPLE WHO ARE AFFECTED OR INFECTED BY HIV OR AIDS. C) TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC ABOUT HOMOSEXUALITY, GENDER ISSUES, HIV OR AIDS. D) TO PROVIDE TELEPHONE COUNSELLING, ADVICE AND INFORMATION FOR THE ABOVE PURPOSES. E) TO OFFER SUPPORT TO CARERS, PARTNERS AND FAMILIES OF THE ABOVE. F) TO BE A POINT OF CONTACT FOR HOMOSEXUAL, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENDERED PEOPLE AND ANYONE AFFECTED BY HIV OR AIDS.
Grants received
22 grants · £1,929,453 total360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.
Top funders
- The National Lottery Community Fund · £1,740,588 (10 grants)
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £73,204
- Essex Community Foundation · £63,411 (8 grants)
- Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales · £52,250 (2 grants)
- People's Health Trust · £0
Most recent
- The National Lottery Community Fund
- The National Lottery Community Fund
- The National Lottery Community Fund
Board analysis
Board DNA
How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.
6 trustees on the board
- Steve Mannix Chair since 2022
- Benjamin Michael Woods since 2025
- Faye Nora Edwards since 2023
- Jordan Newell since 2023
- Lindsey Ilsley since 2024
- Nicola Goodchild since 2023
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (1)
- Jordan Newell since 2023
Portfolio (5)
- Steve Mannix Chair since 2022
- Benjamin Michael Woods since 2025
- Faye Nora Edwards since 2023
- Lindsey Ilsley since 2024
- Nicola Goodchild since 2023
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Gaps to watch
- No commercial or business experience on the board
Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.
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Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1006244
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 29/04/1991AS AMENDED ON 28/10/1991AS AMENDED ON 21/10/1992AS AMENDED ON 08/08/1993AS AMENDED ON 01/07/2000AS AMENDED ON 23/05/2012 as amended on 12 Jul 2021
- Contact on the register
- 01206871394 · info@theouthouse.org.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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