SUNRISE DIVERSITY

Registered charity 1192280 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NORTH DEVON SUNRISE COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY

We provide a range of services and activities to celebrate diversity, challenge discrimination and change attitudes in rural communities

Objects

1) THE PROMOTION OF EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY:(A) PROMOTING ACTIVITIES TO ELIMINATE DISCRIMINATION IN ALL ITS FORMS IN RURAL COMMUNITIES IN THE SOUTH WEST OF ENGLAND, PRINCIPALLY IN NORTHERN DEVON, INCLUDING ON THE GROUNDS OF AGE, RACE, ETHNICITY, CULTURE, COUNTRY OF BIRTH, DISABILITY AND/OR PHYSICAL ABILITIES, GENDER, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, GENDER REASSIGNMENT, RELIGION, BELIEF, PREGNANCY AND MATERNITY, MARRIAGE AND CIVIL PARTNERSHIP, OR LIFESTYLE CHOICES;(B) RAISING PUBLIC AWARENESS IN ISSUES RELATING TO EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY;(C) PROMOTING ACTIVITIES TO FOSTER GREATER UNDERSTANDING AND GOOD RELATIONS BETWEEN PEOPLE FROM DIVERSE BACKGROUNDS; AND(D) CULTIVATING A SENTIMENT IN FAVOUR OF EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY AMONG THE GENERAL PUBLIC, IN PARTICULAR IN NORTHERN DEVON.(2) TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY PREVENTING PEOPLE FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED, RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY, IN PARTICULAR BY PROMOTING ACTIVITIES DESIGNED TO:(A) IMPROVE THE SKILLS, CAPACITY AND UNDERSTANDING OF PEOPLE IN SOCIALLY EXCLUDED GROUPS ACROSS NORTHERN DEVON TO ENABLE THEM TO CHALLENGE DISCRIMINATION AND PARTICIPATE MORE FULLY IN SOCIETY AND LOCAL GOVERNANCE SYSTEMS; AND(B) ENGAGE THE WIDER COMMUNITY IN ACTIVITIES TO HELP RAISE AWARENESS OF THE NEEDS OF SOCIALLY EXCLUDED PEOPLE AND THE BENEFITS OF A SOCIALLY INCLUSIVE SOCIETY, AND TO ENCOURAGE GREATER PUBLIC ACCEPTANCE OF, AND ENGAGEMENT WITH PEOPLE AND COMMUNITIES WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED.FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS CLAUSE ‘SOCIALLY EXCLUDED’ MEANS BEING EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PARTS OF SOCIETY, AS A RESULT OF ONE OF MORE OF THE FOLLOWING FACTORS: UNEMPLOYMENT; FINANCIAL HARDSHIP; YOUTH OR OLD AGE; ILL HEALTH (PHYSICAL OR MENTAL); SUBSTANCE ABUSE OR DEPENDENCY INCLUDING ALCOHOL AND DRUGS; DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF SEX, RACE, DISABILITY, ETHNIC ORIGIN, RELIGION, BELIEF, CREED, SEXUAL ORIENTATION OR GENDER RE-ASSIGNMENT; POOR EDUCATIONAL OR SKILLS ATTAINMENT; RELATIONSHIP AND FAMILY BREAKDOWN; POOR HOUSING (THAT IS HOUSING THAT DOES NOT MEET BASIC HABITABLE STANDARDS; CRIME (EITHER AS A VICTIM OF CRIME OR AS AN OFFENDER REHABILITATING INTO SOCIETY).”

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 · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: North Devon, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £45,810 for the year, reducing its total reserves to £50,740, with free/unrestricted reserves falling to £17,078. The trustees note that free reserves are currently insufficient to meet their six-month closure policy target due to unexpected employment-related costs. However, the trustees confirm that remaining reserves and actions taken to reduce costs are sufficient to meet obligations in the current financial year.

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
• 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

Funders the charity credits

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

• National Lottery — “Sunrise Diversity Secures Lottery Funding… Read our exciting news here!” (source page)

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Jonathan Lockettchair
• Annemarie Shillito · trustee of 1 other charity
• David Johnstone Mason · trustee of 1 other charity
• David Mann
• David Nigel Chalmers
• Roy Ernest Tomlinson · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Cornwall · Devon · Dorset · North Somerset · Somerset

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE SUNRISE FOUNDATION CIO.

• THE SUNRISE FOUNDATION CIO income £271k
• SUNRISE CHURCH income £44k
• THE CHRONICLE SUNSHINE FUND income £427k
• SUNRISE COMMUNITY NURSERIES income £1.1m
• THE SUNRISE (SIDMOUTH) CHARITABLE TRUST income £627k
• SUNSHINE INTERNATIONAL ARTS income £123k

Side by side with its peers

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