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.

Objects

1) TO SUPPORT FAMILIES INDIVIDUALS AND GROUPS WITHIN THE COMMUNITY WHO ARE IN NEED BY REASON OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, ILL HEALTH, DISABILITY OR STRESS 2) TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF AND CARE OF CHILDREN IN NEED 3) TO ADVANCE CHRISTIANITY BY FAMILY SUPPORT WORK AND THE WELFARE OF THE COMMUNITY

Area of benefit: DIOCESE OF CHICHESTER

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 · 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 FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net outgoing of resources before transfers of £162,617, driven by a deficit in restricted funds. However, the trustees confirm the organization is a going concern, supported by unrestricted reserves of £1,114,010 and liquid reserves of £309,000. The charity operates with a net current liability position but maintains that it can draw from its investment portfolio to support working capital requirements.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 0 (FY2025) → 4 (FY2026).
• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "below" (FY2025) to "above" (FY2026).

Comparing this charity’s FY2025 and FY2026 accounts as analysed 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• 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.

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 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~3.2 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 19.9% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (04/11/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• 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

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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 THE CHICHESTER DIOCESAN FUND AND BOARD OF FINANCE (INCORPORATED).

• THE CHICHESTER DIOCESAN FUND AND BOARD OF FINANCE (INCORPORATED) income £21.6m
• CHRIST CHURCH CHICHESTER income £94k
• THE FAMILY FOUNDATION income £86k
• CHRIST FAMILY ASSEMBLY OUTREACH income £75k
• ChesterFamily Church income £32k
• FAMILY WORSHIP CENTRE income £39k

Side by side with its peers

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