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Brighton & Hove Community Works

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £962k (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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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
Where
West Sussex, Brighton And Hove
Website
www.bhcommunityworks.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Brighton & Hove Community Works
Registered
2001

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£962k£1.1m
  • 2024£1.6m£1.3m
  • 2023£888k£925k
Earlier years
  • 2022£904k£906k
  • 2021£867k£879k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 78%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

1. TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, PRINCIPALLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF BRIGHTON AND HOVE AND ITS ENVIRONS (HEREINAFTER CALLED THE “AREA OF BENEFIT”) AND, IN PARTICULAR, BUILD THE CAPACITY OF THIRD SECTOR ORGANISATIONS AND PROVIDE THEM WITH THE NECESSARY SUPPORT, INFORMATION AND SERVICES TO ENABLE THEM TO PURSUE OR CONTRIBUTE TO ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE.2. TO PROMOTE, ORGANISE AND FACILITATE CO-OPERATION AND PARTNERSHIP WORKING BETWEEN THIRD SECTOR, STATUTORY AND OTHER RELEVANT BODIES IN THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE ABOVE PURPOSES WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT.

Grants received

10 grants · £401,637 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 · £321,719 (4 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £54,938 (2 grants)
  • Sussex Community Foundation · £24,980 (4 grants)

Most recent

  • Sussex Community Foundation £5,0002025-03-17
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £48,6482021-03-15
  • Sussex Community Foundation £5,0002020-09-21
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £4,9502020-07-27
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £49,9882020-06-18
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.

8 trustees on the board

3.1y median 3y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

12.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (1)

8
company-linked trustees

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

General Charitable Purposes 8Economic/community Development/employment 1

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

Other services 10Finance 5Business services 3

Gaps to watch

  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

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£962k 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.

1.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 3.9 in 2021

19 from 20 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.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1087481
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 13/12/1999AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 24/01/2000AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 03/08/2000AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 06/06/2001AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 13/06/2006AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 10/09/2008AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 19/08/2013AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 17/12/2013AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 08 NOV 2016
Companies House
Company number 03895635 · Active
Contact on the register
01273234023 · ceo@bhcommunityworks.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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