PRO-ACTIVE COMMUNITY

Registered charity 1191570 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

User-led charity providing services, activities, advocacy, opportunities for expert by experience research and advice for people with learning disabilities.

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS:FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, TO DEVELOP THE CAPACITY AND SKILLS OF THE COMMUNITY OF PEOPLE LIVING WITH AUTISM, LEARNING DISABILITIES AND MENTAL HEALTH NEEDS LIVING IN SURREY AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS, IN SUCH A WAY AS THEY ARE BETTER ABLE TO IDENTIFY, AND HELP MEET, THEIR NEEDS AND TO PARTICIPATE MORE FULLY IN SOCIETY.

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

Latest income
£84k
Latest spending
£83k
Registered
2020
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity is on track with its budget and finances for the year ending March 2025. The trustees note that the organization does not own or lease property and relies on grants and a service level agreement with Active Prospects for administration costs. The document highlights concerns regarding future funding for social care services and recruitment shortages.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Related-party transaction: University of Surrey partnership for research and training.
“We have partnered with the University of Surrey to help achieve better outcomes for people, such as training for midwives on how to support parents with a learning disability.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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.

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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2025

  • Volunteers: 45
  • Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2024

  • Volunteers: 25

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2023

  • Volunteers: 10
  • Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit; payments to trustees for services to the charity

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

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

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Brighton And Hove · Surrey · West Sussex

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£84k£83k
31/03/2024£80k£80k
31/03/2023£79k£76k
31/03/2022£101k£73k

Common questions

Is PRO-ACTIVE COMMUNITY financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity is on track with its budget and finances for the year ending March 2025. The trustees note that the organization does not own or lease property and relies on grants and a service level agreement with Active Prospects for administration costs. The document highlights concerns regarding future funding for social care services and recruitment shortages.

Who funds PRO-ACTIVE COMMUNITY?

Funders whose own accounts filings name PRO-ACTIVE COMMUNITY as a grant recipient include BARCHESTER HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
BARCHESTER HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONFY2023£2kActivities for this charity aiming to improve the lives of people with learning disabilities.

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
Postcode Lottery03/04/2023£24kProject Funding
The National Lottery Community Fund13/01/2023£9kCore costs for Pro-Active Community

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ACTIVE INDEPENDENCE.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
PRO-ACTIVE COMMUNITY£84k—0unclear—no doubt
ACTIVE INDEPENDENCE FY2025£156k——unclear—no doubt
ACTIVE COMMUNITIES NETWORK LIMITED FY2025£1.9m—2unclear—no doubt
PROACTIVE COMMUNITY ENDEAVOURS FY2025£252k—0below—noted
COMMUNITY CONNEX LTD. FY2025£2.5m——above71.5%no doubt
PEOPLE IN ACTION FY2025£11.4m——unclear—no doubt

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.