CITYCOAST TRUST

Registered charity 1111355 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CHRISTIAN OUTREACH CENTRE - BRIGHTON AND HOVE, CITYCOAST CHURCH

General Charitable ActivitiesEducation/TrainingRelief of PovertyReligious ActivitiesCommunity Development

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£467k
Latest spending
£420k
Registered
2005
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved an unrestricted surplus of £52,869, bringing unrestricted funds to £1,071,856. Per the trustees' report, the charity maintains a reserves policy target of three months of expenditure, though it notes that funds are currently fully utilised as they become available.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves position: below the charity's own stated reserves policy (held: £1.1m; policy: three months expenditure)
At the present time funds are fully utilised as they become available.
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — CityCoast Care (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

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

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

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£467k£420k
31/03/2024£432k£433k
31/03/2023£485k£470k
31/03/2022£470k£429k
31/03/2021£477k£402k

Common questions

Is CITYCOAST TRUST financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity achieved an unrestricted surplus of £52,869, bringing unrestricted funds to £1,071,856. Per the trustees' report, the charity maintains a reserves policy target of three months of expenditure, though it notes that funds are currently fully utilised as they become available. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund20/09/2018£10kAir-Con Needed!
The National Lottery Community Fund13/08/2009£7kSunbeams Extras

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.

FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
Newcomen Collett Educational Foundation1£5k
SOUTHBANK AND WATERLOO NEIGHBOURS1£4k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with COIN STREET CENTRE TRUST.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
CITYCOAST TRUST£467k0belowno doubt
COIN STREET CENTRE TRUST FY2025£1.2mUnder £60,0000belowno doubt
TAFF BARGOED DEVELOPMENT TRUST LIMITED FY2025£152k0unclearno doubt
BATH CHRISTIAN TRUST FY2025£2.6m£60,001 - £70,000aboveno doubt
BEACHBOROUGH SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED FY2025£7.3munclearno doubt
WEST ITCHEN COMMUNITY TRUST LIMITED FY2025£396k0unclearno doubt

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