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.

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Latest income
£2.2m
Latest spending
£2.3m
Registered
1997
Accounts read
FY2025

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

Trading subsidiary: Creative Payroll Solutions Limited
The company’s investment in its subsidiary company represents the cost of acquisition of the whole of the ordinary share capital of Creative Payroll Solutions Limited, which provides payroll services previously provided by Community Action Sutton Charity Company. — page 32
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Kingston Burrowes Audit Ltd. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

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)

Total income
£2.2m
Total spending
£2.3m
Cost of raising funds
£11k
Reserves (reported)
£479k
Employees
10

Reported reserves equal ~2.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

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Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Surrey

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£2.2m£2.3m
31/03/2024£2.3m£2.3m
31/03/2023£1.9m£2.0m
31/03/2022£865k£837k
31/03/2021£884k£1.0m

Common questions

Is COMMUNITY ACTION SUTTON financially healthy?

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. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Kingston Burrowes Audit Ltd.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
Greater London Authority (GLA)01/10/2022£18kSafer Neighbourhood Boards Contribution
Greater London Authority18/06/2021£10kGrant to Hill House Community Garden
Greater London Authority10/05/2021£10kHill House Community Garden
The National Lottery Community Fund11/08/2020£100kSutton Giving – The National Lottery Community Fund Application
The National Lottery Community Fund23/01/2020£1kDiwali. Eid and Christmas celebrations
The National Lottery Community Fund22/01/2009£201kAll Aboard

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

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
COMMUNITY ACTION SUTTON£2.2munclearno doubt
SURREY COMMUNITY ACTION FY2025£695k£60,001 - £70,0001aboveno doubt
HOME-START SUTTON FY2025£284k0unclearnoted
VOLUNTARY ACTION SOUTH WEST SURREY FY2025£601k0withinno doubt
THE THOMAS WALL CENTRE FY2024£179k0aboveno doubt
COMMUNITY SOUTHWARK FY2025£1.2mbelowno doubt

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