ACORNS CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 1090804 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as EAST SUSSEX COMMUNITY TRUST, LANGNEY PLAYING FIELD COMMITTEE, LANGNEY PLAYING FIELDS

Provision and maintenance of a playing field and recreation ground and to provide other facilities for the benefit of the community at large and for persons who by reason of youth, age, infirmity, disability, poverty, social or economic circumstances have special need for such facilities, with a view to improving their health and well-being.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE TO USE THE PROPERTY AS A PLAYING FIELD AND RECREATION GROUND AND TO PROVIDE OTHER FACILITIES FOR THE BENEFIT OF BOTH THE COMMUNITY AT LARGE AND THE PERSONS WHO BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY, DISABILITY, POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES HAVE SPECIAL NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES, WITH A VIEW TO IMPROVING THEIR LIFE.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Amateur Sport · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state a surplus for the year of £15,416.58, contributing to accumulated reserves of £1,115,471.46. The entity holds current assets of £74,623.46, primarily in bank deposit accounts. No specific reserves policy target is stated in the provided text.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 2 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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew John Millerchair
• Abigail Shepherd
• Jeanette Linda Coleman
• John Daly
• Karen Donna Peskett
• Lee Edward James Smith
• MICHAEL FREDERICK GRIMER
• ROBERT COLEMAN
• STEPHEN GEORGE CARTER
• Stephen Lochan-Grimer · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: East Sussex · Hampshire · Kent · Surrey · Throughout London · West Sussex

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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