COMMUNITY WISE

Registered charity 1082841 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as COMMUNITYWISE

Provision of community facilities and activities for the whole community.

Causes: Education/training · Religious Activities · Amateur Sport · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a deficit of £4,006 for the year ended 31 March 2025, compared to a deficit of £641 in the previous year. Per the trustees' report, improved revenues were offset by increased staff costs and spending on repairs and maintenance. The charity maintains a reserves policy of six months and held unrestricted reserves of £124,537 at year-end.

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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Roy Hudson Trust — “2023 Roy Hudson Trust” (source page)
• Chalk Cliff Trust — “2022-23 Chalk Cliff Trust 22-23” (source page)
• Awards for All — “NLCF Awards for All 22-23” (source page)
• N+P Crayford MRF — “N+P Crayford MRF 22-23” (source page)
• The Mayor’s Charities, Eastbourne — “2021-22 The Mayor’s Charities, Eastbourne 21-22” (source page)
• Co-op Local Community Fund — “Co-op Local Community Fund 21-22” (source page)
• Arnold Clark Community Fund — “Arnold Clark Community Fund 2021” (source page)
• John Jackson Charitable Trust — “John Jackson Charitable Trust 2021” (source page)
• Communities Can Community Fund — “Communities Can Community Fund 2020” (source page)
• Sussex Community Foundation — “Sussex Community Foundation 2020” (source page)
• East Sussex County Council Emergency Fund — “East Sussex County Council Emergency Fund 2020” (source page)
• Eastbourne Borough Council Devolved Budget — “Eastbourne Borough Council Devolved Budget 2020” (source page)
• Old Town Area Panel — “Old Town Area Panel 2019” (source page)
• Asda Foundation — “2015-16 Asda Foundation” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (24/04/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Clare Frances Winter
• MARTYN JOHN RELF · trustee of 4 other charities
• PAUL CLIFFORD CARTER
• Robert Alan Kelly · trustee of 1 other charity
• Susan Relf · trustee of 1 other charity
• Tony Pierre Jackson

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

Operates in: East Sussex

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

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

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO.

• West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO income £478k
• DENNIS WISE IN THE COMMUNITY income £142k
• Wisdom Hospice Charity income £2.1m
• EDUCATION FOR LIFE income £231k
• WHITELEY COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £103k
• SHIRLEY COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £200k

Side by side with its peers

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