SURVIVING CHRISTMAS

Registered charity 1033117 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SURVIVING CHRISTMAS (HASTINGS AND ROTHER DISTRICT)

Each year, we organise a welcoming space over the two-day Christmas period, offering not just a meeting space but also meals, hospitality and essential services to individuals and families facing hardship. In addition to hospitality services, it undertakes the vital work of supplying, to those in need, hampers, filled with essentials and some treats.

Objects

TO RELIEVE IN CASES OF NEED,HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS OF PERSONS WHO ARE RESIDENT WHETHER TEMPORARILY OR NOT IN THE COUNTY BOROUGH OF HASTINGS OR THE ROTHER DISTRICT IN THE COUNTY OF EAST SUSSEX AND IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT SO AS TO LIMIT THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING,THE PROVISION FOR SUCH PERSONS OF FOOD AND SHELTER OR ALLOWANCES OR VOUCHERS THEREFOR,THE PROVISION OF SUCH PERSONS OF CLOTHING AND HEATING OR ALLOWANCES OR VOUCHERS THEREFOR

Area of benefit: IN PRACTICE THE COUNTY BOROUGH OF HASTINGS OR THE ROTHER DIS

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

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Hastings, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £285 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total unrestricted funds of £68,419. The independent examiner confirmed that the accounts accord with the accounting records and comply with the Charities Act 2011, with no matters requiring attention drawn to the trustees.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

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• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures

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

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

Funders the charity credits

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

• Battle Abbey School — “With the generous support of Battle Abbey School, our volunteers, partner agencies, local businesses and the wider community, we delivered m…” (source page)

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Adam Newington
• Amanda Gillis
• Angus Warwick Peters
• Barry Elphick
• Jan Murphy
• LIONEL REGINALD PARR
• Lorna Hilton
• Megan Skinner · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rebecca Hall
• Samantha Louise Moss
• Sara Elizabeth Patricia Fox-Peters
• Stephen Alan Gillis
• Susan Caroline Peck
• Tina Friend
• Trevor Morgan

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

Operates in: East Sussex

Income and spending

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Known funders

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• SUPPORTING LIVES income £134k
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• CLEVELEYS SPIRITUALIST CHURCH income £50k
• THE RECONCILIATION MINISTRIES income £446k
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Side by side with its peers

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