THE SUSSEX SNOWDROP TRUST

Registered charity 1096622 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Sussex Snowdrop Trust - Care at Home for local children with life-threatening or terminal illnesses, providing nursing, emotional and financial support for the children and their families

Objects

(A) TO ALLEVIATE THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE AMONGST PEOPLE WHO ARE CARING OR WHO HAVE CARED FOR CHILDREN OR YOUNG PEOPLE AGED FROM 0 — 19 YEARS WITH LIFE THREATENING ILLNESSES AND WHO ARE IN NECESSITOUS CIRCUMSTANCES; AND OF DEPENDANTS OF CARERS, BEING DEPENDANTS WHO ARE THEMSELVES IN NECESSITOUS CIRCUMSTANCES; AND FOR THAT PURPOSE TO PROMOTE THE MATERIAL WELFARE OF SUCH CARERS AND DEPENDANTS AS AFORESAID;(B) TO RELIEVE AND ALLEVIATE, AND TO ADVANCE, PROMOTE, ENCOURAGE AND ASSIST IN THE RELIEF OR ALLEVIATION OF ALL KINDS OF MENTAL AND PHYSICAL INFIRMITY, SICKNESS, DISABLEMENT OR HANDICAP INCLUDING MENTAL ILLNESS ATTRIBUTABLE TO CARING, AMONGST CARERS, THOSE PERSONS FOR WHOM THEY ARE CARING AND HAVE CARED AND THE DEPENDANTS OF SUCH CARERS;(C) TO SUPPORT, EMOTIONALLY AND FINANCIALLY, FAMILIES WHERE THERE HAS BEEN AN UNEXPECTED BEREAVEMENT OF A CHILD OR YOUNG PERSON AGED FROM 0 19 YEARS.(D) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION CONCERNING CARING AND THE MATTERS REFERRED TO IN PARAGRAPHS (A) AND (B) OF THIS CLAUSE.

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: General Charitable Purposes · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The charity reported a net deficit of £61,200 for the year ended 31 March 2026, driven by total expenditure exceeding total income. Despite this loss, the charity maintains a strong financial position with free unrestricted reserves of £2,368,141, which the trustees consider to be in line with their stated reserves policy. The accounts state 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

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
• 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
• Investment
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Sussex Snowdrop Trust (matched by registered charity number).

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~43.4 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 9.6% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (14/11/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• DIANA MARIE LEVANTINEchair
• Anthony Robert Jago
• Caroline Katrina Bechelet-Carter
• Dr Marco Emilio Cavaroli
• JAMES RICHARD TICKELL
• Kathryn Angela Flanagan-Bates
• Nicholas John Cockram
• VALERIE SEDDON · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: West Sussex

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Sussex Community NHS Charity.

• Sussex Community NHS Charity income £141k
• THE SICK CHILDREN'S TRUST income £2.8m
• THE SUSSEX PET RESCUE CHARITABLE TRUST income £47k
• The Snowdrop Foundation income £155k
• SNOWDON TRUST income £871k
• THE SNOWDROP PROJECT income £811k

Side by side with its peers

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