THE GRACE EYRE FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1020192 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity works with and supports 650 people with learning disabilities and/or autism. The main activities are 1 - Choices supported living schemes & community support, 2 - housing, 3 - shared lives scheme and 4 - Active Lives, day time opportunities such as supported employment, travel buddy scheme, friendship groups, education, training , creative arts and sports and leisure.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE TO SUPPORT AND ASSIST PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES, MENTAL HEALTH NEEDS, PHYSICAL OR SENSORY DISABILITIES, OLD AGE OR ANY OTHER SIMILAR SUPPORT NEED BY ARRANGING, PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN PROVIDING ACCOMMODATION, EMPLOYMENT, EDUCATION, TRAINING, RECREATION, OCCUPATIONAL ACTIVITIES AND SIMILAR SERVICES.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Disability · Accommodation/housing · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Brighton and Hove, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a surplus of £113,287 for the year ended 31 March 2025, reversing a loss from the previous year. The trustees report that the level of free reserves is currently slightly above the stated policy target of £750,000. However, the charity faces financial pressures from low local authority fee increases and increased costs for staff wages and National Insurance.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by TC Group. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• ReThink Disability – The Grace Eyre Foundation thelatest.co.uk · 07/01/2022

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02806429

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Grace Eyre Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Brighton & Hove Buses — “Long-time supporter of our Travel Buddy project” (source page)
• The Joker — “We are proud to be The Joker's charity partner” (source page)
• The Modern Funeral — “Supporter of our Artists Open House exhibition” (source page)
• The Paint Club — “Supporter of our Artists Open House exhibition” (source page)
• Brighton & Hove Estate Agents Association — “as their charity of the year 2025” (source page)
• Brighton and Hove Golf Club — “This donation as a member of Brighton and Hove Golf Club and friend of Peter Groves” (source page)
• Kingsbury Estate Brighton Ltd — “Building on the Founder's insight” (source page)
• Pier Investment Management — “Proud to help the great work of Grace Eyre” (source page)
• Diversified Communications — “did a charity auction” (source page)

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• GUBBIONI, Natalia — director, appointed 29/04/2026on trustee list
• GROVER, Mark Francis — director, appointed 29/04/2026on trustee list
• MCMAHON, Dominic James — director, appointed 07/07/2025on trustee list
• HORNE, Andrew Fraser — director, appointed 31/05/2024on trustee list
• SMITH, Stephanie — director, appointed 15/03/2023on trustee list
• DHOL, Baldeep Singh — director, appointed 15/03/2023on trustee list
• PUGLIA, Joshua Daniel — director, appointed 15/03/2023on trustee list
• RYAN, Lisa — director, appointed 15/03/2023on trustee list
• COOLEY, Anna Marie — director, appointed 29/03/2021on trustee list
• OWEN, Simon Jonathan — director, appointed 13/11/2017on trustee list
• BETTANY, Jane Hayward — secretary, appointed 01/04/2026

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

11 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold); recorded price paid £657k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: The Grace Eyre Foundation — Registered, 9 registered locations, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 07/11/2022.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram · linkedin

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.8 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (97% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 1.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Care Quality Commission ratings

CQC inspection ratings for services run by a provider matching this charity’s name (matched by name; verify provider identity on CQC’s site).

• Grace Eyre Choices Sussex: Good (24/12/2022) · CQC record
• Grace Eyre Shared Lives Sussex: Good (11/11/2022) · CQC record

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (20/09/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Fraser Horne
• Anna Marie Cooley
• Dominic James McMahon
• Dr Madhubanti Bhattacharyya
• Joshua Daniel Puglia
• Katie Alice Green
• Lisa Ryan
• Mark Francis Grover
• Natalia Gubbioni
• Sasha Mae Marina Campbell
• Stephanie Smith

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Brighton And Hove · East Sussex · West Sussex

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with PEOPLE IN ACTION.

• PEOPLE IN ACTION income £11.4m
• GRACE ORGANISATION income £654k
• THE GRACE DEAR TRUST income £146k
• GRACE ENTERPRISES NOTTINGHAM LTD income £608k
• GRACE HOUSE NORTH EAST income £584k
• REACH LEARNING DISABILITY income £3.9m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.