BRIGHTON & HOVE COMMUNITY WORKS

Registered charity 1087481 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE BRIGHTON & HOVE COMMUNITY & VOLUNTARY SECTOR FORUM, THE BRIGHTON & HOVE VOLUNTARY SECTOR FORUM

Develop and strengthen community groups and voluntary organisations to survive and thrive.Build a strong, vibrant base for volunteering and voluntary activity.Promote and support influential and effective partnerships amongst our stakeholders.Develop our organisation to be effective and sustainable.

Objects

1. TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, PRINCIPALLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF BRIGHTON AND HOVE AND ITS ENVIRONS (HEREINAFTER CALLED THE “AREA OF BENEFIT”) AND, IN PARTICULAR, BUILD THE CAPACITY OF THIRD SECTOR ORGANISATIONS AND PROVIDE THEM WITH THE NECESSARY SUPPORT, INFORMATION AND SERVICES TO ENABLE THEM TO PURSUE OR CONTRIBUTE TO ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE.2. TO PROMOTE, ORGANISE AND FACILITATE CO-OPERATION AND PARTNERSHIP WORKING BETWEEN THIRD SECTOR, STATUTORY AND OTHER RELEVANT BODIES IN THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE ABOVE PURPOSES WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT.

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.

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Registered contact address: Brighton and Hove, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated an overall deficit on unrestricted funds of £66,605, resulting in a net reduction in all funds of £130,754. Total incoming resources decreased significantly to £962,421 from £1,587,750 in the previous year, primarily due to the impact of deferred income from NHS Sussex and reduced predicted income from other funders. Despite the deficit, unrestricted reserves stand at £131,657, and trustees describe the immediate financial position as stable and secure for the upcoming year.

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.

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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03895635
• Trading subsidiary: COMMUNITY WORKS CONSULTANCY LIMITED Companies House 09682590

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.

• PENLY, Diana — director, appointed 19/06/2025on trustee list
• SASIDHARAN, Prasad — director, appointed 06/03/2025on trustee list
• SCSAURSZKI, Tamás Ádám — director, appointed 18/02/2025not on trustee list
• JARMAN, Rebecca Louise — director, appointed 28/03/2023on trustee list
• BRETMAN, Ian Morris — director, appointed 23/01/2023on trustee list
• SHANKS, Geoffrey David Lorimer — director, appointed 23/11/2021on trustee list
• BROWN, Geoffrey William — director, appointed 18/11/2021on trustee list
• MITCHELL, Pamela Jean — director, appointed 03/03/2020on trustee list
• SUMNER, Jessica Mary — secretary, appointed 19/07/2017

Official officers record.

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.4 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (94% 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: 0.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Diana Penly
• Geoffrey David Shanks
• Geoffrey William Brown
• Ian Morris Bretman · trustee of 1 other charity
• Pamela Jean Mitchell
• Prasad Sasidharan
• Rebecca Louise Jarman
• Tamas Adam Scsaurszki

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

Operates in: Brighton And Hove · West Sussex

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE TRUST FOR DEVELOPING COMMUNITIES.

• THE TRUST FOR DEVELOPING COMMUNITIES income £3.1m
• Brixton Community Based Ltd income £47k
• BRIGHTON & HOVE WOOD RECYCLING PROJECT LTD income £439k
• THE SUSSEX COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £3.6m
• Sussex Community NHS Charity income £141k
• SUTTON COMMUNITY WORKS income £423k

Side by side with its peers

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