The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 6th September 2026

Honeycomb Charitable Services Limited

Registered charity 701376 Registered since 1989

Operates: Staffordshire, Stoke-on-trent City, Derbyshire, Cheshire East

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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.

6 trustees on the board

2.2y median 2.5y
average tenure
4y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
7.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

Portfolio (1)

5
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 6Education/training 6The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 6

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

Hospitality 5Health and social care 3Finance 1

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£10.7m 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.

3.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 2.4 in 2021

159 from 144 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.
28%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Connected through a shared trustee

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitewww.honeycombgroup.org.uk
Emailhello@honeycombgroup.org.uk
Phone03300948878
Address308 London Road, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST4 5AB

Finances

£10,694,095 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£6,564,533£6,510,418
2022£7,917,670£8,410,890
2023£8,552,705£8,420,339
2024£10,076,309£9,368,213
2025£10,694,095£9,477,905

What it does

What

Education/trainingThe Prevention Or Relief Of PovertyAccommodation/housingEconomic/community Development/employment

Who

Children/young PeoplePeople Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial OriginOther Defined Groups

How

Provides ServicesProvides Advocacy/advice/information

Charitable objects

The charity’s objects (Objects) are specifically restricted to the following:(I) The education, relief and resettlement of homeless persons of 16 years of age or over within Staffordshire and surrounding areas, in particular by providing short term accommodation, counsel and advice and by assisting in the provision of permanent accommodation with the object of helping such persons to achieve a settled way of life;(II) The advancement of education among persons and agencies who are working with homeless people and in related fields including those who are working in the areas of drug or alcohol dependence, the care of ex-prisoners and with those who are in need of mental care;(III) The prevention of crime and the rehabilitation of offenders through the provision training, care, support and assistance to offenders, ex-offenders, those at risk of offending and their families;(IV) The relief and prevention of distress, suffering and need amongst victims and those at risk of domestic abuse or sexual abuse and their dependents including by providing safe and supportive spaces, temporary accommodations, community support services and education programmes, and working with those responsible to change their behaviour;(V) The provision of housing related services, facilities and amenities, for those in need by virtue of any of the factors mentioned in (VI) below; (VI) The promotion of social inclusion for the public benefit by preventing people within Staffordshire and surrounding areas from becoming or being socially excluded, relieving the needs of those people who are socially excluded and assisting them to integrate into society,provided that in fulfilling these Objects the Company shall operate on a basis of equality of opportunity, regardless of race, sex, creed, sexuality, disability or age.New definition for definition section :"socially excluded" means being excluded from society, or parts of society, as a result of one or more of the following factors: unemployment; financial hardship; youth or old age; ill health (physical or mental); substance abuse or dependency including alcohol and drugs; discrimination on the grounds of sex, race, disability, ethnic origin, religion, belief, creed or sexual orientation or being transgender; poor educational or skills attainment; relationship and family breakdown; poor housing (that is housing that does not meet basic habitable standards); crime either as a victim of crime or as an offender rehabilitating into society.

Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 09/03/1989AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 07/04/1998AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 23/11/2000AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 21/03/2012 as amended on 18 Sep 2019 as amended on 05 Feb 2025

Trustees (6)

6trustees
53median age
1aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

Honeycomb Charitable Services LTD · 02357520 · Active

PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital) · incorporated 09/03/1989

6 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

Connected charities (1)

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