the empty homes agency

This article in the Argus about Brighton Council bringing empty homes back into use includes the observation that

The announcement comes as the Empty Homes Agency reported that the number of homes in the UK standing empty has topped one million.

The Empty Homes Agency? Never heard of them until now. Who are they? Their site says

The Empty Homes Agency was set up as a housing association with charitable status, however we neither own or manage any empty property. The Empty Homes Agency is an independent campaigning charity, which exists to highlight the waste of empty property in England and works with others to devise and promote solutions to bring empty property back into use.

We were set up in 1992 in response to the high number of empty properties and the crisis with homelessness - something had to be done! In the early days we worked on bringing individual empty properties back into use and encouraged local authorities to implement empty property strategies.

Campaigning charity .. .. .. shall we look at the Charity commission homepage for some information about funding?

Except I can't find their registered charity number on their website, the charity commission searches for EHA, Empty Homes Agency and The Empty Homes Agency all throw up nothing. None of their press releases that I've read include their charity number even though they all bear the claim that they are a charity.

So who are the EHA, who funds them and why are they so coy? I smell a fakecharity .. ..