CHICHESTER DIOCESAN ASSOCIATION FOR FAMILY SUPPORT WORK

Registered charity 285337 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Practical help and advice to families. Providing monetary support for purchase of necessities. Working in partnership with voluntary and statutory organisations. Employing full time and part time support workers to work with families, individually or in groups.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net outgoing of resources of £233,895 for the year, resulting in a net current liability position of £138,860. However, the trustees confirm the entity is a going concern, citing the ability to draw from investment portfolios to support working capital requirements. Total unrestricted reserves stood at £1,163,622, though liquid reserves were significantly lower at £269,818 after excluding the carrying value of land and buildings.

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Family Support Work (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 21.3% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (12/11/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (06/10/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (30/04/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (09/11/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• EDWARD RICHARD BICKERSTETHchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Dr Janet Baah · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Timothy John Charles Fooks
• GILLIAN SIGGS · trustee of 1 other charity
• Lady Serena Soames
• Lee Clark
• Mary Elizabeth Symes · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev David John King · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rt. Rev Ruth Kathleen Frances Bushyager · trustee of 2 other charities

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

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

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• Rt. Rev Ruth Kathleen Frances Bushyager — trustee here and at THE CHICHESTER DIOCESAN FUND AND BOARD OF FINANCE (INCORPORATED)

Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

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