THE HASTINGS COMMUNITY TRUST

Registered charity 1081252 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as Hastings Centre, KC HASTINGS, KINGS CHURCH HASTINGS, King's Church 1066, THE HASTINGS CENTRE

The Objects of the Charity are to: advance the Christian faith; relieve persons who are in condition of need, hardship or distress; educate and assist young people through their leisure time activities so as to develop their physical, mental and spiritual capacity; advance education in family life, in marriage and family relationships; and advance Christian religious education and training.

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that free reserves stood at £158,573, which the trustees consider to be approximately 3.5 months of regular church income, exceeding their stated policy target of two to three months. The charity reported a net income of £210,664 for the year, with total resources increasing to £2,184,412, and the auditors confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Chariot House Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03990390
• Trading subsidiary: HASTINGS CENTRE TRADING LIMITED Companies House 05222534 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Hastings Foodbank (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Paul Rackstraw — Chair of Trustees (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.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• PHILLIPS, Andrew David — director, appointed 01/07/2026on trustee list
• MUMMERY, Theresa — director, appointed 10/12/2024on trustee list
• RACKSTRAW, Paul — director, appointed 12/05/2022on trustee list
• WILLIAMS, Natalie Anne — director, appointed 03/07/2009on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold); recorded price paid £500k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (67% 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: 25.3% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Paul Rackstrawchair
• Andrew David Phillips · trustee of 1 other charity
• Natalie Anne Williams
• Theresa Mummery

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

Operates in: East Sussex

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with TOGETHER FOR CHRIST HIS KINGDOM AND HIS CHURCH.

• TOGETHER FOR CHRIST HIS KINGDOM AND HIS CHURCH income £141k
• THE CORNERSTONE CHURCH GROUP income £226k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF EMMANUEL, HASTINGS income £165k
• THE CHARIS TRUST income £591k
• KINGS CHURCH CENTRE, LEWES income £1.8m
• HULL COMMUNITY CHURCH income £430k

Side by side with its peers

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