Lancaster & District Homeless Action Service Limited

Analysis

Lancaster & District Homeless Action Service Limited is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Lancaster. It was registered in July 2002, 24 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the prevention or relief of poverty and accommodation/housing, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 03722790). It says it provides human resources, provides services and provides advocacy/advice/information.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Lancaster & District Homeless Action Service Limited reported income of £219k and spending of £227k, spending 104% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £184k to £219k (+19%), an average of +4.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income rose by 90%. Over the whole period it spent 84% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Lancaster & District Homeless Action Service Limited sits at the 77th percentile: it is larger than about 77% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 82nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Chortkov Trust (£219k), Power Praise and Deliverance Ministries International (£219k) and The United Kingdom Turkish Islamic Cultural Centre (£219k).