SURREY COMMUNITY ACTION

Registered charity 1056527 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SURREY CA

Resourcing voluntary and community action through access to advice, training, funding and advocacy.

Objects

THE PROMOTION OF ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE PRIMARILY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE COUNTY OF SURREY AND SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE WORK IN OTHER GEOGRAPHICAL AREAS WITHIN THE UNITED KINGDOM WHICH ASSIST THE WORK OF STATUTORY AND VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS ENGAGED IN ADVANCING EDUCATION, FURTHERING HEALTH, RELIEVING POVERTY DISTRESS OR SICKNESS, PROMOTING EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY, IMPROVING SKILLS OR ANY OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSE.4.2 TO PROMOTE AND ORGANISE CO-OPERATION IN THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE CHARITABLE PURPOSES BY WORKING WITH CHARITIES AUTHORITIES AND ORGANISATIONS.

Area of benefit: PRIMARILY SURREY

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a net surplus of £28,616, bringing total funds to £482,725. The trustees regard the unrestricted reserves of £278,459 as adequate to meet future needs and fund planned expenditure. While the charity faces financial pressures from reduced local authority funding, it remains on solid financial footing.

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
• 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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~5.0 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (79% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (04/06/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alan Carpenter
• Barbara Steele
• Barbara Teszler
• Christopher Richard Stanton · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jan Rogers
• John Skivington
• MICHAEL CHARLES CANNON
• Peter Downey
• ROGER TAYLOR · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Surrey

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• COMMUNITY ACTION SUTTON income £2.2m
• THE SURREY CARE TRUST income £2.2m
• SURREY COALITION OF DISABLED PEOPLE income £962k
• COMMUNITY SOUTHWARK income £1.4m
• WALNEY COMMUNITY TRUST income £180k
• RIDGEWAY COMMUNITY TRUST income £26k

Side by side with its peers

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