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Registered charity · Stoke on Trent

Empowering People Inspiring Communities Limited

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £6.9m (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Accommodation/housing, Economic/community Development/employment, Other Charitable Purposes
Where
Staffordshire, Stoke-on-trent City
Website
www.epichousing.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Empowering People Inspiring Communities Limited
Registered
2007

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£6.9m£6.0m
  • 2024£6.2m£5.8m
  • 2023£5.9m£5.6m
Earlier years
  • 2022£5.5m£5.0m
  • 2021£4.7m£3.4m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2024: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

3.1 THE COMPANY'S OBJECTS SHALL BE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY,3.1.1 THE PROVISION OF:(1) HOUSES, HOSTELS OR ANY OTHER HOUSING ACCOMMODATION AND ANY ASSOCIATED AMENITIES, SERVICES, ADVICE OR ASSISTANCE FOR PERSONS;IN NECESSITOUS CIRCUMSTANCES UPON TERMS APPROPRIATE TO THEIR MEANS;WHO ARE AGED, DISABLED OR HANDICAPPED (WHETHER MENTALLY OR PHYSICALLY), OR CHRONICALLY SICK, AND ARE IN NEED OF THE ACCOMMODATION OR OTHER BENEFITS PROVIDED BY VIRTUE OF THE CONDITION;(2) SERVICES, ADVICE OR ASSISTANCE UPON TERMS APPROPRIATE TO THEIR MEANS TO AGED, DISABLED OR HANDICAPPED (WHETHER MENTALLY OR PHYSICALLY) OR CHRONICALLY SICK PERSONS IN NEED THEREOF IN ARRANGING OR CARRYING OUT WORKS OF IMPROVEMENT REPAIR OR MAINTENANCE TO HOMES OCCUPIED BY THEM AND PROVIDING ANY ASSOCIATED AMENITIES SPECIALLY DESIGNED OR ADAPTED TO MEET THE DISABILITIES AND REQUIREMENTS OF SUCH PERSONS;(3) FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE OR RECREATION, WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE COMMUNITY;3.1.2 THE UNDERTAKING OF ANY OTHER CHARITABLE OBJECT THAT CAN FROM TIME TO TIME BE CARRIED OUT BY A COMPANY REGISTERED AS A SOCIAL LANDLORD WITH THE HOUSING CORPORATION; AND 3.1.3 THE PROMOTION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT OF URBAN OR RURAL REGENERATION IN AREAS OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEPRIVATION (AND IN PARTICULAR STAFFORDSHIRE) BY ALL OR ANY OF THE FOLLOWING MEANS:(1) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY IN SUCH WAYS AS MAY BE THOUGHT FIT;(2) THE RELIEF OF UNEMPLOYMENT IN SUCH WAYS AS MAY BE THOUGHT FIT, INCLUDING ASSISTANCE TO FIND EMPLOYMENT;(3) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, TRAINING OR RETRAINING, PARTICULARLY AMONG UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE AND PROVIDING UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE WITH WORK EXPERIENCE;(4) THE PROVISION OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE, TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE, OR BUSINESS ADVICE OR CONSULTANCY IN ORDER TO PROVIDE TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE IN CASES OF FINANCIAL OR OTHER CHARITABLE NEED THROUGH HELP:(1) IN SETTING UP THEIR OWN BUSINESS, OR(II) TO EXISTING BUSINESSES;(5) THE CREATION OF TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES BY THE PROVISION OF WORKSPACE, BUILDINGS AND/OR LAND FOR USE ON FAVOURABLE TERMS;(6) THE PROVISION OF HOUSING FOR THOSE WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED AND THE IMPROVEMENT OF HOUSING IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR OR IN CHARITABLE OWNERSHIP PROVIDED THAT SUCH POWER SHALL NOT EXTEND TO RELIEVING ANY LOCAL AUTHORITIES OR OTHER BODIES OF A STATUTORY DUTY TO PROVIDE OR IMPROVE HOUSING;(7) THE MAINTENANCE, IMPROVEMENT OR PROVISION OF PUBLIC AMENITIES;(8) THE PROVISION OR ASSISTANCE IN THE PROVISION OF RECREATIONAL FACILITIES FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE AND/OR THOSE WHO, BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES, HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES;(9) THE PROTECTION OR CONSERVATION OF THE ENVIRONMENT;(10) THE PROMOTION OF PUBLIC SAFETY AND PREVENTION OF CRIME; AND(11) SUCH OTHER MEANS AS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME BE DETERMINED SUBJECT TO THE PRIOR CONSENT OF THE CHARITY COMMISSIONERS FOR ENGLAND AND WALES.

Grants received

1 grant · £476,000 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

  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities · £476,000

Most recent

  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities £476,0002020-04-01
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.

11 trustees on the board

2.6y median 3y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
9.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (2)

11
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 11The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 11Economic/community Development/employment 10Education/training 1

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

Property 12Health and social care 4Construction 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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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£6.9m 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.

59.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 62.4 in 2021

33 from 21 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.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1118644
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ON 14 MARCH 1997 AS AMENDED ON 22 MARCH 2007 AND 27 MARCH 2007 as amended on 06 Sep 2022 as amended on 31 Oct 2024 as amended on 31 Oct 2024 as amended on 31 Oct 2024
Companies House
Company number 03333405 · Active
Contact on the register
01782252575 · mailbox@epichousing.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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