ROTHERFIELD ST MARTIN

Registered charity 1168555 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

RSM is a community led and award winning charity that supports older people in the Rotherfield Parish (and surrounding areas), East Sussex. Our aim is to prevent social isolation and loneliness in our rural community. NB: The charity was originally founded and registered as charity 1119458 in 2007 and converted to this CIO in 2016.

Objects

TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF ROTHERFIELD, EAST SUSSEX, AND THE SURROUNDING AREA THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR WELFARE, RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES OR FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF THE SAID INHABITANTS

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity returned a surplus of £6,102 for the year ended August 2025, with total income of £141,973 and expenditure of £135,871. Per the trustees' report, the charity holds total reserves of £349,325, comprising £117,923 in unrestricted funds, which exceeds the Charity Commission's recommended safety reserve target of £96,300 to £160,500.

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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• 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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Rotherfield St Martin (matched by registered charity number).

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (23/06/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Parnell
• Mark Howard
• Matthew Pancaldi
• Melanie den Brinker-Darby
• Ruth Helliwell
• Susan Barnett
• Susan Glover
• Susan Taylor

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

Operates in: East Sussex

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CARING ALTOGETHER ON ROMNEY MARSH (CARM).

• CARING ALTOGETHER ON ROMNEY MARSH (CARM) income £234k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST MARGARET ROTTINGDEAN income £160k
• THE BRIAN LESLIE RACHER 2004 CHARITABLE TRUST income £101k
• ST MARTIN'S CENTRE FOR HEALTH AND HEALING income £727k
• ROTHERFIELD UNITED FOOTBALL CLUB income £134k
• STRATHMORE ROAD METHODIST CHURCH, ROWLANDS GILL income £231k

Side by side with its peers

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