Registered charity · London
Homeless Link
- 10 trustees
- Income £10m (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Derek HeathTrustee · since 2023
- Eleanor McneilTrustee · since 2024
- Harish Sumanlal BhayaniTrustee · since 2017
- Jamie Andrew Burton KCTrustee · since 2024
- Janice Elizabeth HughesTrustee · since 2023
- Maria IglesiasTrustee · since 2020
- Sara OgilvieTrustee · since 2026
- Scott Andrew RobsonTrustee · since 2023
- Simon Hewett-AvisonTrustee · since 2023
- Thomas CannonTrustee · since 2025
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 Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Accommodation/housing
- Where
- Throughout England
- Website
- www.homeless.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Homeless Link
- Registered
- 2001
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£10m£9.6m
- 2024£10m£10m
- 2023£8.8m£9.0m
Earlier years
- 2022£11m£12m
- 2021£22m£22m
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 6% · Government grants 13%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
THE COMPANY IS ESTABLISHED FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO RELIEVE POVERTY, SICKNESS AND NEED WHICH IS MAINLY, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, CAUSED BY HOMELESSNESS OR THAT MAY RESULT IN HOMELESSNESS BY PROVIDING INFORMATION, EDUCATION, ADVICE, SYSTEMS,PROCESSES, AID AND SUPPORT TO INDIVIDUALS, ORGANISATIONS AND OTHER BODIES.
Grants received
94 grants · £33,285,495 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
- Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities · £16,487,302 (19 grants)
- The National Lottery Community Fund · £5,565,942 (8 grants)
- Comic Relief · £3,610,000 (3 grants)
- Lankelly Chase Foundation · £1,420,988 (11 grants)
- London Councils · £1,174,465 (2 grants)
Most recent
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
- Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
- Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
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
- Derek Heath since 2023
- Eleanor Mcneil since 2024
- Harish Sumanlal Bhayani since 2017
- Jamie Andrew Burton KC since 2024
- Janice Elizabeth Hughes since 2023
- Maria Iglesias since 2020
- Sara Ogilvie since 2026
- Scott Andrew Robson since 2023
- Simon Hewett-Avison since 2023
- Thomas Cannon since 2025
Trustees past 6 years
- Harish Sumanlal Bhayani since 2017
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (9)
- Derek Heath since 2023
- Eleanor Mcneil since 2024
- Harish Sumanlal Bhayani since 2017
- Jamie Andrew Burton KC since 2024
- Janice Elizabeth Hughes since 2023
- Sara Ogilvie since 2026
- Scott Andrew Robson since 2023
- Simon Hewett-Avison since 2023
- Thomas Cannon since 2025
Portfolio (1)
- Maria Iglesias since 2020
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
1.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 0.6 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1089173
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 31ST OCTOBER 2001 AND AMENDED 8 JULY 2003, 28 MARCH 2007 AND BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 17 MARCH 2009.AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 06 DEC 2017 as amended on 02 Dec 2022
- Companies House
- Company number 04313826 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 07958417802 · info@homelesslink.org.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 4th October 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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