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Registered charity · Brighton

NEW Writing South

  • 6 trustees
  • Income £206k (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
Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
East Sussex, Hampshire, Isle Of Wight, Kent and more
Website
www.newwritingsouth.com (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
NEW Writing South
Registered
2002

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£206k£233k
  • 2024£182k£187k
  • 2023£189k£165k
Earlier years
  • 2022£306k£291k
  • 2021£366k£341k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE COMPANY IS ESTABLISHED ARE:-TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY THE PROMOTION OF THE ARTS, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY ALL FORMS OF NEW WRITING.

Grants received

9 grants · £413,694 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

  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £252,954 (2 grants)
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £125,950 (3 grants)
  • Postcode Society Trust · £25,000
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £7,040 (2 grants)
  • Sussex Community Foundation · £2,750

Most recent

  • Postcode Society Trust £25,0002025-03-31
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £9,9502022-11-09
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £126,4772021-12-13
  • Sussex Community Foundation £2,7502019-10-23
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport £126,4772017-06-08
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

4.3y median 3y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.6y
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.

Arts/culture/heritage/science 6Education/training 6Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity 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.

Education 5Other services 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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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£206k latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1092533
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ON 7 NOVEMBER 2001 AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 5 DECEMBER 2005. ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION DATED 15 OCTOBER 2010.
Companies House
Company number 04318810 · Active
Contact on the register
07977499432 · lesley@newwritingsouth.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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