HASTINGS THRIVES

Registered charity 1170342 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Addressing barriers to learning in the most vulnerable children from age 2 onwards through training and one to one support. The charity also provides enrichment activities in the areas of music and the arts.

Objects

The advancement of education in Hastings and surrounding areas for the public benefit by (but not limited to) 1. Work with parents, schools and the wider community to encourage academic and personal achievement through providing inclusive enrichment activities2. Provision of training to professionals working with our children in all schools and settings 3. Overcome barriers to learning.

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 FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a net deficit, as total expenditure of £31,742 exceeded total income of £26,580. Consequently, cash reserves fell to £23,047, and the charity reports having no physical or financial assets. The trustees note that the organization continues to rely on volunteers and freelance staff to keep overheads to a minimum while delivering its programs.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Post Code Lottery — “Thanks to Post Code Lottery funding a Christmas party of music and art.” (source page)
• The Magdalen and Lasher Charity — “With thanks to The Magdalen and Lasher Charity” (source page)
• Co-op Community Fund — “Co-op Community Fund” (source page)
• Comic Relief — “Thanks to funding from Comic Relief we are once again able to…” (source page)
• The Magdalen and Lasher Trust — “With support from the Magdalen and Lasher Trust, we are running…” (source page)
• Foreshore Trust — “Great News. We have funding from the Foreshore Trust for our…” (source page)
• Youth Music — “We are very pleased to have received two years funding from Youth…” (source page)

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Emma Anderson-Shuttleworth
• Jennifer Lozano
• Jonathan Frederick Morris
• Susanna Longley

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

Operates in: East Sussex

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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