KANGAROOS MID SUSSEX

Registered charity 1150202 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as KANGAROOS

Kangaroos Mid Sussex provides a wide variety of leisure and recreational opportunities for people with learning disabilities and additional needs, based in the Mid Sussex area. The organisation has been in existence since 1994, previously known as Kangaroos charity no 1041988 which changed when the charity became incorporated in 2013.

Causes: Education/training · Disability · Amateur Sport · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net loss of £28,333 for the year, primarily due to unbudgeted redundancy costs associated with a staff restructure. Despite this loss, the charity's free/unrestricted reserves of £170,345 remain within the trustees' stated policy target range of £232,913 to £373,424. The trustees confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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.

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

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~5.6 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 14.0% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (12/09/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (11/10/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Thomas David Acottchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Alexander Stuart Harper
• Bob White
• David Covill
• Hazel Constantine
• Jackie Colvin
• Jane Emma Lacey
• Linsey Sim
• Robert James Fisher
• Susan Margaret Hilary May

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

Operates in: East Sussex · West Sussex

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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