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Registered charity · London

Hestia Housing and Support

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £57m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

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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, Accommodation/housing, Economic/community Development/employment and 1 more
Where
Throughout London
Website
www.hestia.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Hestia Housing and Support
Registered
1986

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£57m£56m
  • 2024£54m£52m
  • 2023£48m£47m
Earlier years
  • 2022£42m£41m
  • 2021£37m£37m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 57% · Government grants 6%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

1.1. TO RELIEVE HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS BY PROVIDING SUPPORT AND CARE FOR INDIVIDUALS WHO SUFFER MENTAL OR PHYSICAL INFIRMITY, ARE AFFECTED BY DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, ARE OFFENDERS OR AT RISK OF OFFENDING, ARE IN NEED DUE TO AGE OR YOUTH, ARE HOMELESS, SUFFER SUBSTANCE ABUSE OR ARE OTHERWISE IN NEED OF ASSISTANCE (THE BENEFICIARIES); 1.2. TO PROVIDE HOUSING, HOUSING RELATED SUPPORT OR CARE FOR THE BENEFICIARIES SO THAT THEY CAN LIVE MORE INDEPENDENT LIVES AND FULFIL THEIR POTENTIAL IN THE COMMUNITY; AND 1.3. TO FURTHER SUCH OTHER EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE

Grants received

65 grants · £4,978,177 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

  • Home Office · £1,479,315 (11 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport · £649,712 (2 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £520,229 (2 grants)
  • Department of Health and Social Care · £501,193 (3 grants)
  • City Bridge Trust · £458,640 (5 grants)

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Board analysis for researchers

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

2.8y median 3y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure
1
trustees past 6 years
12.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (11)

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 11Education/training 11General Charitable Purposes 11

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 12Education 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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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£56.8m 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.

3.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 4.9 in 2021

814 from 680 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.
63%
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
294555
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 15/05/1986AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 19/09/1990AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 25/09/1991AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 14/05/1992AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 17/11/1997AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 09/10/1999AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 03/12/2001AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 24/11/2006AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 30/11/2007AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 30/11/2008AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 10/01/2014 as amended on 05 Dec 2017 as amended on 03 Dec 2019 as amended on 07 Dec 2021
Companies House
Company number 02020165 · Active
Contact on the register
02073783100 · info@hestia.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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