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Registered charity · Southampton

The Society of ST James

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £18m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 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
Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Accommodation/housing, Other Charitable Purposes
Where
Hampshire, Southampton City, Portsmouth City
Website
www.ssj.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Society of ST James
Registered
1995

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£18m£17m
  • 2024£16m£16m
  • 2023£15m£15m
Earlier years
  • 2022£14m£14m
  • 2021£12m£12m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 50% · Government grants 2%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS, HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY OF PERSONS WHO ARE HOMELESS, UNEMPLOYED OR WHO HAVE DRUG, ALCOHOL OR OTHER SUBSTANCE ADDICTIONS BY THE PROVISION OF HOUSING, REHABILITATION, CARE, SUPPORT, EDUCATION, TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES; IN ORDER TO IMPROVE INDIVIDUALS' OPPORTUNITIES AND QUALITY OF LIFE AND TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE WIDER COMMUNITY.

Grants received

17 grants · £2,167,884 total

360Giving 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 · £1,930,337 (8 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £137,500 (3 grants)
  • Ministry of Defence · £33,333
  • Garfield Weston Foundation · £30,000
  • Vivensa Foundation · £25,000

Most recent

  • The Greggs Foundation £2,0002025-09-11
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £835,6102024-03-27
  • Ministry of Defence £33,3332023-02-10
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £57,6042022-10-28
  • CareTech foundation £2502021-08-04
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.

10 trustees on the board

4.2y median 4y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

10.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Portfolio (2)

9
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Accommodation/housing 10Education/training 10The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 10

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Health and social care 9Business services 3Finance 3

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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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£17.9m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

3.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 1.1 in 2021

319 from 229 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.
51%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1043664
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 13/01/1995AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 20/09/2001AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 07/11/2005AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 22/10/2013 as amended on 17 Oct 2023
Companies House
Company number 03009700 · Active
Contact on the register
02380634596 · info@ssj.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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