SUSSEX COUNTY SPORTS PARTNERSHIP TRUST

Registered charity 1122082 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ACTIVE SUSSEX

To promote increased community participation in sport and active recreation for the benefit of the inhabitants of Sussex

Objects

TO PROMOTE INCREASED COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN SPORT AND ACTIVE RECREATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF SUSSEX IN PARTICULAR BY (A) STRATEGIC PLANNING AND COORDINATION WITHIN AND BETWEEN LOCAL ORGANISATIONS OR COMMUNITY SPORTS NETWORKS, INCLUDING THE KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS IN THE MANAGEMENT AND PROJECT PLANNING OF SPORT AND ACTIVE RECREATION;(B) THE MARKETING AND COMMUNICATION OF SPORT AND ACTIVE RECREATION INFORMATION AND OPPORTUNITIES;(C) THE BENEFITS AND OUTCOMES OF INVESTMENT IN SPORTS AND ACTIVE RECREATION THROUGH ROBUST PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS;(D) THE SUPPORT OF ORGANISATIONS AND LOCAL COMMUNITIES IN HELPING PEOPLE START STAY AND SUCCEED IN SPORT AND ACTIVE RECREATION TO WHATEVER LEVEL THEY CHOOSE;(E) THE AWARENESS OF COMMUNITY SPORTS ORGANISATIONS OF FINANCIAL AND OTHER RESOURCES WHICH ARE OPEN TO THEM;(F) THE EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF ALL PEOPLE, BOTH VOLUNTARY OR PROFESSIONAL, INVOLVED IN THE COMMUNITY SPORT INFRASTRUCTURE;(G) THE IMPROVEMENT AND PRESERVATION OF GOOD HEALTH AND WELL-BEING THROUGH PARTICIPATION IN SPORT AND ACTIVE RECREATION;(H) THE ADVANCEMENT OF SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES BENEFICIAL TO THE COMMUNITY CONSISTENT WITH THE OBJECTS SET OUT IN 3 (A) TO (G) ABOVE AS THE TRUSTEES OF THE CHARITY SHALL IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE.

Area of benefit: 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 · Amateur Sport · Economic/community Development/employment · Recreation · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £252,779, which is consistent with its policy of maintaining four months of operating expenditure. The charity reported a net incoming fund movement of £269,902 for the year, driven by income primarily from Sport England, while total expenditure was £847,158.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sumer Audit. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 0 (FY2025) → 12 (FY2026).

Comparing this charity’s FY2025 and FY2026 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
• 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.

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 31/03/2023 (received 19/03/2024, 48 days after the 31/01/2024 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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.0 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (60% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Christine Gibbonschair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Diana Whitney
• Dr Angela Jane Glynn
• John Graddon
• Liam-Scott Davies
• Sarah Curgenven
• Thomas James Howell
• Yvonne Louise Rees · trustee of 1 other charity

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

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

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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

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 THE SUSSEX GOSPEL PARTNERSHIP.

• THE SUSSEX GOSPEL PARTNERSHIP income £91k
• SPORTS AID TRUST income £16.8m
• SOUTHWARK COMMUNITY SPORTS TRUST income £259k
• SPORTS ACTIVE SEAGULLS COMMUNITY TRUST income £79k
• Sussex Community NHS Charity income £141k
• SOMERSET ACTIVITY AND SPORTS PARTNERSHIP income £3.3m

Side by side with its peers

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