SUSSEX COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1094905 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NCDA, NEWHAVEN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION ( N C D A ) LIMITED

Employability, Advice & Inclusion, Health & Wellbeing, Care & Support, Community Development

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income decreased by 4% to £4,863,006, while total expenditure decreased by 6% to £4,861,042, resulting in a net surplus for the year. Free reserves stood at £800,284, which is 123% of the trustees' stated policy target of £650,000, indicating the charity is operating above its required financial resilience threshold.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by TC Group. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £70,000 - £79,999 (FY2024) to £70,001 - £80,000 (FY2025).
• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "below" (FY2024) to "above" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Penny Shimmin — Chief Executive (source)
• Amber Upton — HR Director (source)
• Jo Rees — Finance Director (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• East Sussex County Council — “Lewes District Food Partnership is funded by East Sussex County Council and Public Health England.” (source page)
• Public Health England — “Lewes District Food Partnership is funded by East Sussex County Council and Public Health England.” (source page)

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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (96% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (01/09/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• JOHN CORNISHchair
• Andrew Jonathan Shields
• Daniel James Bamfield Stewart-Roberts · trustee of 1 other charity
• Donna Martinez-Claras
• Edward Wagstaff
• Helen Macaulay · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ioni Anne Sullivan
• Manal Ahmed

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

Operates in: Brighton And Hove · East Sussex · West Sussex

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SOUTHMEAD DEVELOPMENT TRUST.

• SOUTHMEAD DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £4.3m
• Sussex Community NHS Charity income £141k
• NHANCED COMMUNITIES income £182k
• HAMPSTEAD COMMUNITY ACTION LIMITED income £421k
• SOUTH MANCHESTER SPORTS CLUB LIMITED income £113k
• DEESIDE COMMUNITY TRUST income £599k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.