WORTHING COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP

Registered charity 1098284 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WCP

Providing grants of up to £1500 to non profit making groups and organisations.

Objects

TO RELIEVE POVERTY AND ADVANCE EDUCATION IN THE WORTHING AREA, THROUGH INVOLVING THE LOCAL COMMUNITY IN A PARTNERSHIP WHICH ESTABLISHES AND SUPPORTS PROJECTS THAT TACKLE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEPRIVATION

Area of benefit: WORTHING AREA

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 Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Worthing, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net surplus of £4,549 for the year, with unrestricted reserves totaling £385,825. The trustees consider this level of reserves prudent as it covers three months of running costs and major repairs, meeting their stated policy target. The charity is not subject to audit and relies on an independent examination, with no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue operating.

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
• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• 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)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 30/06/2024 (received 10/05/2025, 10 days after the 30/04/2025 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04243893 · Financial health read from its filings

Funders the charity credits

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

• Stagecoach South — “Stagecoach South and Worthing Community Chest have joined forces in a year-long partnership to enrich the local community. Stagecoach South …” (source page)

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.

• THORPE, Hazel, Cllr — director, appointed 31/05/2023not on trustee list
• NOWAK, Richard Edward — director, appointed 11/07/2022on trustee list
• ROBINSON-VINEY, Shirley Jean — director, appointed 24/01/2018on trustee list
• ANSELL, Martin — director, appointed 25/01/2017on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £285k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Trustees · trustee networks

• CLLR Richard Edward NOWAK · trustee of 1 other charity
• MARTIN ANSELL
• Shirley Robinson-Viney · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: West Sussex

Income and spending

Common questions

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 MILTON COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP.

• MILTON COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP income £20k
• WHEATHAMPSTEAD COMMUNITY GROUP income £41k
• WARRINGTON VOLUNTARY ACTION income £987k
• WARNER PRIORY CHARITABLE TRUST income £78k
• NEW WORTLEY COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £573k
• WALNEY COMMUNITY TRUST income £180k

Side by side with its peers

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