THE SARA LEE TRUST FUND

Registered charity 1055048 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

An independent, local charity providing complementary therapies, counselling and creative therapies to people in Hastings and Rother living through cancer and other serious illness; with support for their families and carers.

Objects

TO PROVIDE SUPPORT AND RELIEF FOR PEOPLE LIVING WITH LIFE THREATENING CONDITIONS, THEIR FAMILY AND CARERS THROUGH THE PROVISION OF COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOLOGICAL SUPPORT AND/OR COMPLIMENTARY THERAPY CARE, TREATMENT AND ADVICE IN PARTICULAR (BUT NOT TO THE EXCLUSION OF ELSEWHERE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM) IN EAST SUSSEX

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 · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Trust ended the financial year with a non-recurrent surplus of £48,692, resulting in total funds of £2,332,914. However, the trustees report an annual funding gap of over £250,000 and note that the unpredictable financial environment presents a considerable ongoing challenge to sustainability. The charity aims to reach a sustainable breakeven position by 2029, relying on securing additional funding to avoid interim cost-cutting measures.

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 5 of 6 completeness components.

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Sara Lee Trust Fund (matched by registered charity number).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/04/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~4.0 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 7.1 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 12.7% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 3.0%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• MICHAEL LEARchair
• ANNIE JEANETTE CRYAR
• Cara Grant
• DEBORAH ANNE HARGREAVES
• Gaby Hill
• Marcus Baughurst
• Mary Midgley
• Mike Morton
• Stephen Robinson
• Sue Morton
• Tim Lee

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

Operates in: East Sussex

Income and spending

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• SUE YOUNG CANCER SUPPORT IN LEICESTERSHIRE AND RUTLAND income £225k
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• BRACKEN TRUST LIMITED income £250k
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Side by side with its peers

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