ST LUKES ADVICE SERVICE

Registered charity 1094894 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provision of free advice on debt and benefits. Legal representation at benefit appeals

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ARE THE PROVISION OF A CHRISTIAN ADVICE SERVICE FOR THE RELIEF OF PERSONS WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP, OR DISTRESS IN BRIGHTON AND HOVE AND NEARBY DISTRICTS.

Area of benefit: BRIGHTON AND HOVE AND NEARBY DISTRICTS.

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 FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net movement in funds of £12,088 for the year ended 31 March 2026, with total income of £193,171 and expenditure of £149,477. Unrestricted reserves increased to £75,992 at the year-end. The trustees confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Financial Conduct Authority. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (12/01/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• MARTIN POOLEchair · trustee of 4 other charities
• MICHAEL JOHN GRAY
• Monica Thurmond Allen
• Peter Richard Ball · trustee of 1 other charity
• Timothy Drew · trustee of 1 other charity
• Vanda Leary · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: East Sussex

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MONEY ADVICE ST NEOTS.

• MONEY ADVICE ST NEOTS income £77k
• STOCKTON AND DISTRICT ADVICE AND INFORMATION SERVICE income £1.6m
• SOUTH BUCKS. COUNSELLING income £101k
• ST LUKE'S CHURCH income £980k
• ST LUKES TRUST LIMITED income £387k
• ST LUKES COMMUNITY HALL income £31k

Side by side with its peers

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