Together Collective
Registered charity 1083390 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BRIGHTON AND HOVE IMPETUS, BRIGHTON AND HOVE COMMUNITY IMPETUS, BRIGHTON AND HOVE COMMUNITY INITIATIVE, BRIGHTON AND HOVE COMMUNITY INITIATIVES, Together Co
We are a loneliness charity that creates connections to change lives. We do this through award winning befriending, social prescribing and a range of volunteering programmes. We help people increase independence, confidence & wellbeing.
Objects
TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN BRIGHTON AND HOVE AND THE COUNTIES OF EAST SUSSEX AND WEST SUSSEX, AND IN PARTICULAR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE FURTHERANCE OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, DISTRESS AND SICKNESS.
Area of benefit: BRIGHTON AND HOVE
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 · Disability · Economic/community Development/employment · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £15,998 for the year, with total incoming resources of £738,963 against expenditure of £754,961. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £211,939, representing approximately 3.4 months of annual expenditure, which is slightly above the stated policy target of three months.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Reserves policy: three months of annual expenditure (reserves figure: £212k)
“Our policy sets the guide level of reserves that we aim to have on hand at around three months of annual expenditure.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
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
- 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.
Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2026
- Volunteers: 460
- Government income: £390,950 — contracts £390,950 (4); 54% of the £717,358 total gross income on the same return
Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2025
- Volunteers: 492
- Government income: £451,499 — contracts £451,499 (8); 61% of the £738,963 total gross income on the same return
Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2024
- Volunteers: 470
- Government income: £618,091 — contracts £618,091 (8); 70% of the £885,957 total gross income on the same return
Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.
Public-sector contracts awarded
From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)
Cost of raising funds
£80k
Reported reserves equal ~3.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 11.2% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).
- Alexander James Tindal · trustee of 1 other charity
- Anne Belinda Grant
- Anthony Charles Sutton
- Clare Helen Cole
- Dr Christopher David Odedun
- Emma-Louise Naef
- Jennifer Brooks
- Jonathan Hyman
- Natalie Orringe
- Stephanie Joy Hubbard
- Vivienne Judith Benson
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Brighton And Hove · East Sussex · West Sussex
Income and spending
Common questions
Is Together Collective financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £15,998 for the year, with total incoming resources of £738,963 against expenditure of £754,961. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £211,939, representing approximately 3.4 months of annual expenditure, which is slightly above the stated policy target of three months. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.
Who funds Together Collective?
Funders whose own accounts filings name Together Collective as a grant recipient include THE EDWARD GOSTLING FOUNDATION, Army Benevolent Fund, THE ANTON JURGENS CHARITABLE TRUST, SCHRODER CHARITY TRUST, LORD BARNBY'S FOUNDATION.
Known funders
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