HASTINGS ADVICE AND REPRESENTATION CENTRE

Registered charity 1083566 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HARC

HARC provides an accessible information, advice and advocacy service, specialising in welfare benefits and tax credits up to and including the Upper Tier Tribunal. We offer home visits to elderly and housebound people and advice surgeries in Hastings & Rother. Our aim is to relieve local poverty by ensuring the correct benefit is received by people on a low income.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity maintained a good level of unrestricted funds despite limited resources and funding insecurities. The directors consider that reserves are maintained at a level equivalent to between two and three months of expenditure, which they believe ensures continuity of activities in the event of a significant drop in funding.

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.

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

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (75% 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: 14.2% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• CORDELIA ANN WOOLLARDchair
• ANDREW STANLEY BURNETT
• Frances Mary Mapstone
• Michael John Gratton · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rachael Louise Roser
• SHELLEY FELDMAN
• STEPHEN JOHN LEWIS

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

Operates in: East Sussex · West 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).