SUSSEX HOMELESS SUPPORT

Registered charity 1175229 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We provide a number of charitable services to homeless and rough sleepers including running street kitchens to provide food and clothing. We currently run 7 days a week giving volunteers a chance to work together on these projects. Since March 2020 the first Covid-19 lock down we stepped up our services, this was made possible by extra vounteers over 300 and support from businesses and groups.

Objects

“THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS: FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, THE RELIEF AND ASSISTANCE OF PEOPLE IN NEED BECAUSE THEY ARE HOMELESS AND ROUGH SLEEPING BY THE PROVISION OF COLLECTING FOOD AND USEFUL HOUSEHOLD ITEMS THEN DELIVERING THEM TO HOMELESS PEOPLE, USING FOOD COLLECTED TO RUN STREET KITCHENS TO GIVE FOOD TO HOMELESS AND OTHER RELEVANT MEANS TO RELIEVE THEIR SUFFERING INCLUDING THE COLLECTION AND PROVISION OF HOUSEHOLD ITEMS, AFTER TESTING, TO HOMELESS PEOPLE GETTING INTO THEIR FIRST HOMES OR HOSTELS.”

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

Causes: Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Brighton and Hove, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted reserves of £14,622.66 as of 31 March 2025, which the trustees consider a prudent level given that grant applications are not guaranteed. The charity's reserves policy is to maintain funds to cover foreseen expenses for up to one month in advance, and the current balance is described as marginally above the normal £9,000-£10,000 balance. The filing confirms that no government grants were received and that the charity relies heavily on donations of goods and services to operate.

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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2021 (received 31/08/2022, 212 days after the 31/01/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Sussex Homeless Support CIO (matched by registered charity number).

Trustees · trustee networks

• TIM ROGERSchair
• AMBER ROFFEY-JOHN
• Steve Spencer

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

Operates in: Brighton And Hove · East Sussex · West Sussex

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 SUSSEX PRISONERS' FAMILIES.

• SUSSEX PRISONERS' FAMILIES income £263k
• FURNESS HOMELESS SUPPORT GROUP income £285k
• HOMELESS ACTION income £3.8m
• STREET AID WALES income £29k
• SANDWELL HOMELESS AND RESETTLEMENT PROJECT LIMITED income £566k
• HOMELESS HAMPERS income £23k

Side by side with its peers

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