THE SUSSEX COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1113226 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Sussex Community Foundation:1. Raises funds to improve quality of life in East and West Sussex and Brighton & Hove2. Provides services for people and companies wishing to donate to their local community3. Is building a permanent capital fund for good causes across Sussex4. Gives grants to charities and community groups in East and West Sussex and Brighton & Hove

Objects

3.1 THE PROMOTION OF ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN THE COUNTIES OF EAST SUSSEX, WEST SUSSEX AND THE CITY OF BRIGHTON AND HOVE AND IN PARTICULAR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION THE PROTECTION OF GOOD HEALTH BOTH MENTAL AND PHYSICAL AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND SICKNESS;3.2 OTHER EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND ELSEWHERE WHICH ARE IN THE OPINION OF THE TRUSTEES BENEFICIAL TO THE COMMUNITY INCLUDING THOSE IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT.

Area of benefit: COUNTIES OF EAST SUSSEX, WEST SUSSEX AND THE CITY OF BRIGHTON AND HOVE

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 · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Received the assets of:

ARDIS (charity 297811) — merger registered 09/07/2019
LEWES FLOOD APPEAL (charity 1083117) — merger registered 31/08/2012

Source: Charity Commission register of merged charities (OGL v3.0).

Latest income

£3.6m

Latest spending

£4.2m

Registered

2006

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £717,834 for the year ended 31 March 2025, following a surplus in the prior year. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £281,097, which is above the stated policy lower threshold of three months of operating expenditure. The charity noted challenging fundraising conditions and has implemented staff reductions to manage costs.

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

What the accounts disclose

Highest-paid employee band: £80,001 - £90,000 — above the median for charities its size (£70k)

“In the band £80,001 - £90,000 1” — page 36

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Related-party transaction: Grants totalling £5,000 were awarded to Diversity Resource International of which M Ghebreweldi is a Director.

“Grants totalling £5,000 were awarded to Diversity Resource International of which M Ghebreweldi is a Director.” — page 43

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by TC Group. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

Top pay band moved from £70,001 - £80,000 (FY2024) to £80,001 - £90,000 (FY2025).

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

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
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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2025

Government income: £382,011 — grants £382,011 (2); 11% of the £3,553,610 total gross income on the same return
Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (£90,001–£100,000: 1)
Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2024

Volunteers: 3
Government income: £227,330 — grants £227,330 (2); 6% of the £4,062,970 total gross income on the same return
Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (£70,001–£80,000: 1)
Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2023

Volunteers: 3
Government income: £550,000 — grants £550,000 (2); 13% of the £4,274,437 total gross income on the same return
Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (£80,001–£90,000: 1)
Grant-making is its main activity

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

Corporate structure

Registered company of the charity Companies House 05670692

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Kevin Richmond — CEO (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.

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.

POWELL, Kevin Stephen — director, appointed 22/05/2025on trustee list
MUNDAY, Nicholas Harold Paul — director, appointed 28/11/2023not on trustee list
PROWER, Deirdre — director, appointed 28/11/2023on trustee list
SAMPSON, David — director, appointed 28/11/2023on trustee list
GIBBONS, Christine Susan — director, appointed 11/05/2023not on trustee list
CASE, Sally — director, appointed 11/05/2023on trustee list
GHEBREWELDI, Mebrak — director, appointed 26/11/2020on trustee list
BAIRD, Andrew Gerald Harvey — director, appointed 26/11/2020on trustee list
DAVISON, Guy Bryce — director, appointed 26/11/2020on trustee list
DAY, Corinne — director, appointed 26/11/2020on trustee list
ROBERTS, Martin Charles — director, appointed 19/10/2017on trustee list
SPOFFORTH, David Mark — director, appointed 24/07/2017not on trustee list
BOOTH, Victoria Teresa — secretary, appointed 21/08/2026

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

11 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (11 freehold). 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 · linkedin

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

Total income

£3.6m

Total spending

£4.2m

Cost of raising funds

£163k

Reserves (reported)

£281k

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~0.8 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 4.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

Received assets from another charity (16/09/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
Received assets from another charity (26/03/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
Received assets from another charity (13/09/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
Received assets from another charity (12/09/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
Received assets from another charity (06/06/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
Received assets from another charity (24/04/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

David Mark Spofforth OBEchair
ANDREW BAIRD
Corinne Day
David Sampson
Deirdre Prower · trustee of 1 other charity
Guy Davison
Kevin Stephen Powell · trustee of 2 other charities
MARTIN ROBERTS
Mebrak Ghebreweldi
Nick Munday
Sally Case

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

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

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£3.6m	£4.2m
31/03/2024	£4.1m	£4.0m
31/03/2023	£4.3m	£4.7m
31/03/2022	£3.5m	£5.5m
31/03/2021	£4.9m	£5.7m

Common questions

Is THE SUSSEX COMMUNITY FOUNDATION financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £717,834 for the year ended 31 March 2025, following a surplus in the prior year. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £281,097, which is above the stated policy lower threshold of three months of operating expenditure. The charity noted challenging fundraising conditions and has implemented staff reductions to manage costs. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by TC Group.

What does the highest-paid employee of THE SUSSEX COMMUNITY FOUNDATION earn?

Per its FY2025 accounts, the highest-paid employee was in the £80,001 - £90,000 band.

Who funds THE SUSSEX COMMUNITY FOUNDATION?

Funders whose own accounts filings name THE SUSSEX COMMUNITY FOUNDATION as a grant recipient include THE LAWSON TRUST CIO, THE FOYLE FOUNDATION, THE LYNN FOUNDATION, CULLUM FAMILY TRUST, THE CRUCIBLE FOUNDATION.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
THE LYNN FOUNDATION	FY2022	Unverified read£6.2m
THE LAWSON TRUST CIO	FY2024	£500k	Match funding grants
OPTIGENE FOUNDATION	FY2025	Unverified read£238k
THE FOYLE FOUNDATION	FY2025	£200k
THE LYNN FOUNDATION	FY2023	£200k
CULLUM FAMILY TRUST	FY2024	£150k	Local projects
CULLUM FAMILY TRUST	FY2025	£145k	Local projects nominated by the Foundation
CULLUM FAMILY TRUST	FY2023	£100k	Local projects nominated by the Foundation
THE LYNN FOUNDATION	FY2024	£100k
CULLUM FAMILY TRUST	FY2022	£100k
THE CRUCIBLE FOUNDATION	FY2023	£50k
THE CRUCIBLE FOUNDATION	FY2022	£50k
JOHN LAING CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2022	£39k	Cost of Living Fund
THE IAN ASKEW CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2023	£25k
JOHN LAING CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2024	£25k	Reaching Potential Fund
JOHN LAING CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2025	£25k	Reaching Potential Fund
THE BOLTINI TRUST	FY2024	£20k
THE IAN ASKEW CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2024	£20k
THE BOLTINI TRUST	FY2023	£20k	Community & Educational Institutions
THE IAN ASKEW CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2025	£20k	Estate Fund
THE IAN ASKEW CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2022	£15k	Grant
The Patricia Routledge Foundation	FY2024	£5k
THE GROCERS' CHARITY	FY2023	£5k	Youth
THE BOLTINI TRUST	FY2025	£5k
The Patricia Routledge Foundation	FY2022	£3k
THE LAWSON TRUST CIO	FY2021	£3k
THE ASHBURNHAM THANKSGIVING TRUST	FY2024	£2k
The Patricia Routledge Foundation	FY2021	£2k
The Patricia Routledge Foundation	FY2025	£2k
JOHN SWIRE 1989 CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2021	£1k

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' FOUNDATION	1	£254k
UNITED ST SAVIOUR'S CHARITY	1	£187k
ASSOCIATION OF NHS CHARITIES	1	£79k
WAKEFIELD AND TETLEY TRUST	1	£75k
THE HOPE KEITH VILLAGERS TRUST	1	£61k
Sussex Community NHS Charity	1	£37k
PETER STORMONTH DARLING CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£30k
SOUTHWARK CHARITIES	1	£25k

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
SUSSEX CANCER FUND income £433k
FE SUSSEX income £497k
Southend United Community Foundation income £1.2m
FRIENDS OF SUSSEX HOSPICES income £212k
BRIGHTON & HOVE COMMUNITY WORKS income £962k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
THE SUSSEX COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	£3.6m	£80,001 - £90,000	—	above	—	no doubt
Sussex Community NHS Charity FY2025	£141k	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
SUSSEX CANCER FUND FY2025	£433k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
FE SUSSEX FY2025	£497k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
Southend United Community Foundation FY2025	£1.2m	—	—	below	—	no doubt
FRIENDS OF SUSSEX HOSPICES FY2025	£212k	—	0	above	—	no doubt

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