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Registered charity (CIO) · Hants

Home of Comfort

Home of Comfort is a registered charity (number 1163224) based in Hants, governed by 5 trustees and chaired by Margaret Susan Smy since 2015. Latest income £1.8m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 4th October 2026.

The relief of those in need by reason of age, ill health or terminal illness by such means as providing a nursing home and such other services and facilities as the charity trustees may from time to time determine. The charity trustees shall give...

  • 5 trustees
  • Income £1.8m (2025)
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About

What it does
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Where
Portsmouth City
Website
www.homeofcomfort.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2015

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.8m£2.1m
  • 2024£1.9m£2.2m
  • 2023£1.6m£2.0m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.5m£1.8m
  • 2021£1.4m£1.6m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 70%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

The relief of those in need by reason of age, ill health or terminal illness by such means as providing a nursing home and such other services and facilities as the charity trustees may from time to time determine. The charity trustees shall give preference to beneficiaries who are or who were formerly ordained or lay ministers of the Church of England or other workers connected with the Church of England.

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.

5 trustees on the board

7.8y median 8y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

0
company-linked trustees

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

The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 5The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 5

Gaps to watch

  • No commercial or business experience on the board
  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together
  • Narrow spread of causes across 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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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£1.9m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2023 and 2024
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.

3.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 12.6 in 2020

61 from 59 in 2020
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.
61%
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
1163224
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - FOUNDATION REGISTERED 20 AUG 2015 AS AMENDED ON 17 FEB 2020AMENDED ON 12 FEB 2020 as amended on 11 Dec 2020
Contact on the register
02392830063 · email@homeofcomfort.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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