COMMUNITY ACTION SUTTON

Registered charity 1063129 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SUTTON CENTRE FOR THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR CHARITY COMPANY, SUTTON CENTRE FOR VOLUNTARY SECTOR CHARITY COMPANY, SUTTON CENTRE FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE CHARITY COMPANY

Supporting and resourcing the voluntary and community sector in Sutton, Surrey.

Objects

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, PRINCIPALLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF THE LONDON BOROUGH OF SUTTON AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS AND ITS ENVIRONS (HEREINAFTER CALLED THE “AREA OF BENEFIT”) AND, IN PARTICULAR, BUILD THE CAPACITY OF THIRD SECTOR ORGANISATIONS AND PROVIDE THEM WITH THE NECESSARY SUPPORT, INFORMATION AND SERVICES TO ENABLE THEM TO PURSUE OR CONTRIBUTE TO ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE. 4(2) TO PROMOTE, ORGANISE AND FACILITATE CO-OPERATION AND PARTNERSHIP WORKING BETWEEN THIRD SECTOR, STATUTORY AND OTHER RELEVANT BODIES IN THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE ABOVE PURPOSES WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT. 4(3) FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS ARTICLE 4: (A) “THIRD SECTOR” MEANS CHARITIES, VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS AND SOCIAL ENTERPRISES. (B) “CHARITIES” ARE ORGANISATIONS WHICH ARE ESTABLISHED FOR EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES. (C) “VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS AND SOCIAL ENTERPRISES” ARE INDEPENDENT ORGANISATIONS, WHICH ARE ESTABLISHED FOR PURPOSES THAT ADD VALUE TO THE COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE, OR A SIGNIFICANT SECTION OF THE COMMUNITY, AND WHICH ARE NOT PERMITTED BY THEIR CONSTITUTION TO MAKE A PROFIT FOR PRIVATE DISTRIBUTION. VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS AND SOCIAL ENTERPRISES DO NOT INCLUDE LOCAL GOVERNMENT OR OTHER STATUTORY AUTHORITIES.

Area of benefit: LONDON BOROUGH OF SUTTON AND SURROUNDING AREAS

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

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Registered contact address: Sutton, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held £1,757,383 in total funds at the end of the year, with unrestricted reserves of £217,360. The trustees' report notes a reserves policy to maintain sufficient reserves to cover at least three months of operating expenditure, which the current unrestricted general fund meets. The auditor confirmed the financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Kingston Burrowes Audit Ltd. Discloses 3 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

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Community Action Sutton (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Simon Breeze — Chief Executive (source)
• Jenny Sims — Chair (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (93% 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: 0.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (14/03/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (30/03/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• JENNY SIMSchair
• Amie Stace
• Bob Harrison
• Lawrence Imrie
• Louise Kelly · trustee of 1 other charity
• Polly Pereschino
• Vanessa McCain

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

Operates in: Surrey

Income and spending

Common questions

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 SURREY COMMUNITY ACTION.

• SURREY COMMUNITY ACTION income £695k
• SUTTON COMMUNITY WORKS income £423k
• COMMUNITY ACTION ISLE OF WIGHT income £2.0m
• COMMUNITY SOUTHWARK income £1.4m
• COMMUNITY ACTION NORTHUMBERLAND income £886k
• WHITTON COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £365k

Side by side with its peers

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