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Registered charity · East Sussex

Sussex Rural Community Council

  • 5 trustees
  • Income £554k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty and 2 more
Where
East Sussex, West Sussex
Website
www.ruralsussex.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Sussex Rural Community Council
Registered
1994

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£554k£563k
  • 2024£479k£470k
  • 2023£413k£444k
Earlier years
  • 2022£537k£590k
  • 2021£517k£595k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 13% · Government grants 23%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

1) TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY OF THE COUNTIES OF EAST AND WEST SUSSEX AND IN PARTICULAR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION,THE PROTECTION OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY DISTRESS AND SICKNESS 2) TO PROMOTE AND ORGANISE CO-OPERATION IN THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE ABOVE OBJECTS AND TO THAT END BRING TOGETHER IN COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATUTORY AUTHORITIES AND VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS AND OTHER BODIES AND PERSONS PURSUING THE ABOVE OBJECTS WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT

Grants received

10 grants · £710,598 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

  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £367,112 (3 grants)
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £329,200 (5 grants)
  • Sussex Community Foundation · £14,286 (2 grants)

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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.

5 trustees on the board

4.8y median 4y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

16.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

4
company-linked trustees

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

Education/training 5General Charitable Purposes 5The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 5

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

Health and social care 6Property 5Arts and leisure 2

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£554k 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.

22.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 36.4 in 2021

16 from 12 in 2021
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.
35%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1035401
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 10 MARCH 1994 AS AMENDED ON 19TH SEPTEMBER 1996 as amended on 13 Nov 2019
Companies House
Company number 02907172 · Active
Contact on the register
01273473422 · info@ruralsussex.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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