COMMUNITIES FIRST WESSEX

Registered charity 1147527 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as COMMUNITY FIRST HEH, HCCS COMMUNITY ACTION

Community First plays a key role in developing a thriving voluntary sector in Hampshire, empowering communities, mobilising our member organisations and delivering critical community services including transport, mobility, training, supported volunteering, health & wellbeing programmes, community hubs and cafes, helping older people at home and young carers, that make life better for everyone.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income rose to £4.38 million, driven by a significant donation from Gosport Voluntary Action, while unrestricted reserves stood at £2,091,373. The trustees report that the charity remains strong and sustainable, with adequate resources to continue as a going concern, despite acknowledging risks related to dependence on public sector funding.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Morris Crocker Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from Over £60,000 (FY2024) to over £60,000 (FY2025).

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Community First (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Tim Houghton — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Sara Tiller — Chair (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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

4 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 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

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (78% 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (17/03/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (19/05/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (13/02/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (07/07/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (24/05/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (23/09/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Claire Louise Savage
• Ian Kevin Reeves
• JOHN EVANS
• Owain Thomas Little
• Sara Tiller
• Simon Ap Kenneth Mortimore
• Vivienne Nerys Carter

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

Operates in: Dorset · Hampshire · Poole · Portsmouth City · Southampton City · 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 COMMUNITIES 1ST.

• COMMUNITIES 1ST income £1.6m
• COMMUNITY FIRST income £3.3m
• COMMUNITY FIRST OXFORDSHIRE income £576k
• HAMPSHIRE AND THE ISLE OF WIGHT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £656k
• COMMUNITY ACTION HAMPSHIRE income £936k
• COMMUNITY FIRST YORKSHIRE LTD income £1.0m

Side by side with its peers

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