ST JAMES' TRUST (SEAFORD)

Registered charity 1106913 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Services for the elderly and disabled in Seaford and surrounding areas.

Objects

TO UNDERTAKE VOLUNTARY WORK IN EDUCATION, SOCIAL SERVICES AND SIMILAR CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES AMONGST THOSE CLASSES IN NEED THEREOF.

Area of benefit: EAST SUSSEX

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 · Religious Activities · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £1,229 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £111,224 and expenditure of £112,453. Unrestricted reserves stood at £111,401, which the trustees note is above their policy target of retaining the equivalent of 12 months of unrestricted expenditure (£87,263). The independent examiner confirmed that no matters came to their attention that would prevent a proper understanding of the accounts.

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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints 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
• 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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05079039

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.

• COWLING, Rachel Jane — director, appointed 27/08/2025on trustee list
• SKILLINGS, Anne — director, appointed 23/10/2024on trustee list
• HARVEY, Stephen John — director, appointed 27/09/2023not on trustee list
• WEST, Carolyn Mary — director, appointed 27/09/2023on trustee list
• DYMOTT, David John — director, appointed 13/04/2022on trustee list
• RICHARDSON, Anthony Malcolm — director, appointed 27/08/2019not on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold); recorded price paid £167k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (13/09/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anne Skillings
• Anthony Richardson FCCA
• Carolyn West
• David John Dymott
• Rachel Jane Cowling
• Steven Harvey

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

Operates in: East Sussex

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE JOHNSON TRUST LIMITED.

• THE JOHNSON TRUST LIMITED income £23.2m
• SEAFORD COMMUNITY TRUST income £129k
• THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF SAINT JAMES AND SAINT EDMUND, BURY ST EDMUNDS income £2.7m
• THE SOUTHEND ON SEA DARBY AND JOAN ORGANISATION LIMITED income £1.2m
• THE JAMES CHARITIES income £519k
• LIFE CHURCH SEAFORD income £215k

Side by side with its peers

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