ST JOHN'S PARK

Registered charity 305189 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provision and maintenance of a public park for the enjoyment of the inhabitants of Burgess Hill and Mid Sussex district.

Objects

A PUBLIC PARK AND RECREATION GROUND

Area of benefit: ST. JOHN'S COMMON AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD

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: Mid Sussex, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that all managed charities operate with a policy to hold no reserves, relying entirely on donations from the Council (MSDC) to cover any shortfall between charitable trading income and expenditure. The independent examiner reported that no matters came to their attention requiring further explanation, indicating the accounts comply with statutory requirements.

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.

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
• Conflicting interests
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Volunteer management

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2025 (received 05/02/2026, 5 days after the 31/01/2026 due date); year ending 31/03/2024 (received 17/02/2025, 17 days after the 31/01/2025 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Mid Sussex District Council · trustee of 6 other charities

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

Operates in: West Sussex

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BEECH HURST GARDENS CHARITY.

• BEECH HURST GARDENS CHARITY income £130k
• QUEEN'S PARK income £33k
• STOKE PARK TRUST income £27k
• DOXFORD PARK AND DISTRICT COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £30k
• ST. JOHN'S ASSOCIATION income £28k
• PRIORY PARK income £240k

Side by side with its peers

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