COMMUNITY PEOPLE MID SUSSEX

Registered charity 1158780 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HORSHAM AND MID SUSSEX VOLUNTARY ACTION, MID SUSSEX VOLUNTARY ACTION

Building the capacity of voluntary, community, and social enterprise organisations (VCSE), fostering partnership working, and promoting and improving the efficient and effective use of charitable and community resources.

Objects

To promote any charitable purposes for the benefit of the community across the regions of the South East and its environs (hereinafter called the “area of benefit”) and, in particular by:(1) Building the capacity of voluntary, community, and social enterprise organisations (VCSE) and provide them with the necessary support, information, and services to enable them to pursue or contribute to any charitable purpose(2) Fostering partnership working to bring together the representatives of VCSE organisations, statutory authorities, and other organisations within the area of benefit.(3) Promoting and improving the efficient and effective use of charitable and community resources in the achievement of the above purposes by providing consultancy and advice services to national, regional, and local representatives of VCSE organisations, statutory authorities, and other organisations.

Area of benefit: LOCAL

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 Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported total funds of £336,618, an increase from £204,594 in the prior year, driven by a net income of £132,024. Unrestricted reserves stood at £317,738, which the trustees consider sufficient to mitigate financial risks, although they noted that maintaining adequate reserves remains a challenge in the current financial environment.

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 4 of 6 completeness components.

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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Mid Sussex Voluntary Action (matched by registered charity number).

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (04/11/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (21/06/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (27/04/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (22/01/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• James William Baldwinchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Andrew John Langler
• David William Mason
• Gabrielle Gardner
• John Charles Bines
• Melissa Katherine Case
• Patrick Oswald Mayhew
• Victoria Dickinson

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

Operates in: East Sussex · West Sussex

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with NHANCED COMMUNITIES.

• NHANCED COMMUNITIES income £182k
• COMMUNITY VENTURES (MIDDLESBROUGH) LTD income £949k
• PEOPLE ARISE NOW income £237k
• VALEHOUSE COMMUNITY CENTRE income £234k
• VOLUNTARY SECTOR CENTRES income £1.7m
• COMMUNITY DISCOVERY AND RECOVERY SERVICES income £1.3m

Side by side with its peers

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