THE SOMERSET CENTRE, BRIGHTON

Registered charity 1170520 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

23-place Centre for isolated older people 50plus in Brighton. Safe environment & social support on Mon to Thurs: minibus (wheelchair room), lunch, personal care, hairdressing, educational/recreational activities, trips. Aims: * Reduce anxiety & social isolation * Improve health/wellbeing* Support independence in own home* Knowledge of other services* Have active role in community

Objects

TO RELIEVE THE AGED, SICK OR DISABLED RESIDENTS OF BRIGHTON AND TO ASSIST IN PROVIDING IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITION OF LIFE, A DAY CENTRE WITH FACILITIES FOR MAINTAINING AND IMPROVING THE HEALTH OF SUCH PERSONS AND FACILITIES FOR THEIR RECREATION OR LEISURE TIME OCCUPATIONS.

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 Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a modest surplus of £7,450 and total unrestricted reserves of £53,736. Per the trustees' report, the financial position is described as healthy, though future wage increases and essential maintenance costs are noted as upcoming financial pressures.

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.

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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title 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.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (13/08/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• JOHN BARRYchair
• ALLEN DOUGLAS BICKS
• Christopher Dean
• Pamela Margaret Lord
• Rev Helen Anita Rose
• Sarah Anne Leadbetter

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

Operates in: Brighton And Hove

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ALICE CROSS CENTRE.

• THE ALICE CROSS CENTRE income £236k
• Age UK West Sussex, Brighton & Hove income £5.1m
• ST MARGARET'S CENTRE income £328k
• BRIGHTWELLS GOSTREY CENTRE income £233k
• BRIGHTLINGSEA COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £259k
• WALSALL COMMUNITY TRANSPORT LIMITED income £1.5m

Side by side with its peers

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