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Registered charity · Hastings

Hastings Furniture Service Limited

  • 6 trustees
  • Income £704k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Accommodation/housing, Economic/community Development/employment
Where
East Sussex
Website
www.hfs.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Hastings Furniture Service LTD.
Registered
1991

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£704k£439k
  • 2024£448k£514k
  • 2023£362k£479k
Earlier years
  • 2022£375k£427k
  • 2021£396k£369k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2022: Government grants 4%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE ASSOCIATION IS ESTABLISHED ARE THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND DISTRESS OF PERSONS IN EAST SUSSEX AND SURROUNDING AREA WHO ARE IN NEED BY REASON OF UNEMPLOYMENT OR LOW INCOME BY PROVIDING GOODS AND SERVICES THAT SUCH PERSONS WOULD NOT OTHERWISE NE ABLE TO AFFORD.THE RELIEF OF UNEMPLOYMENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN SUCH WAYS AS MAY BE THOUGHT FIT INCLUDING:= ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING BY PEOPLE NO LONGER IN FULL TIME EMPLOYMENT THROUGH CONTINUED DEVELOPMENT OF THEIR INDIVIDUAL CAPABILITIES, COMPETENCIES, SKILLS AND UNDERSTANDING IN ORDER TO PROGRESS TO FURTHER EDUCATION, TRAINING OR PAID WORK= PROVISION OF VOLUNTEERING AND WORK EXPERIENCE OPPORTUNITIES FOR UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE= CREATION OF TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES BY THE PROVISION OF WORKSPACE, BUILDINGS, AND/OR LAND FOR USE ON FAVOURABLE TERMS TO OTHER NON-PROFIT ORGANISATIONSTHE PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION OF THE ENVIRONMENT FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY THE REUSE/RECYCLING OF FURNITURE AND OTHER HOUSEHOLD ITEMS÷

Grants received

17 grants · £274,144 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

Most recent

Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

6 trustees on the board

2y median 2y
average tenure
4y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
10.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

Portfolio (1)

5
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Accommodation/housing 6General Charitable Purposes 6The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 6

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Retail and trade 5Education 2Agriculture 1

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£704k latest income
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

26.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months

10
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1003257
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 12TH. OCTOBER 1988, AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS DATED 26TH APRIL 1991, 10TH FEBRUARY 1995 AND BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 16 NOVEMBER 2010.
Companies House
Company number 02304489 · Active
Contact on the register
01424441112 · mail@hfs.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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