ST MARYS SOCIAL CENTRE

Registered charity 221844 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

A Community Centre building available for groups and individuals who use our facilities to further their aims and aspirations from child care and sports through to clubs for the elderly.

Objects

TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF LEWES OR PUBLIC AT LARGE WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX OR OF POLITICAL RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS BY A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECTS OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OR THE SAID INHABITANTS OR PERSONS.

Area of benefit: SEE OBJECTS

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 · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Lewes, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £2,296 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with unrestricted reserves of £64,875. The trustees consider the financial position satisfactory and the charity a going concern, though they retain higher reserves due to uncertainty over the building lease.

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 4 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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 handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries

Trustees · trustee networks

• COLIN REYNOLDS · trustee of 2 other charities
• MR A GANDER
• NICHOLAS HAZLE · trustee of 2 other charities
• Sheila Courcha
• Sue Tillman

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

Operates in: East Sussex

Income and spending

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• ST MARGARET CENTRE income £33k
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• MARSWORTH SOCIAL CENTRE income £31k
• BISHOP CREIGHTON HOUSE SETTLEMENT income £845k
• HIGHCROFT COMMUNITY CENTRE CIO income £47k
• MARLOW COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £79k

Side by side with its peers

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