Registered charity · Horsham
Horsham Matters Limited
• The prevention or relief of poverty, through the provision of goods, services and facilities to those experiencing hardship regardless of their faith• The relief of those in need by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship...
- 6 trustees
- Income £795k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
- Linda Jane EmeryChair · since 2023
- Carolyn WatsonTrustee · since 2024
- Helen PittTrustee · since 2021
- James PestellTrustee · since 2024
- Nicola BarberTrustee · since 2023
- Rev Thomas MurrayTrustee · since 2012
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, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Religious Activities, Economic/community Development/employment
- Where
- West Sussex
- Website
- www.horsham-matters.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Horsham Matters LTD
- Registered
- 2006
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£795k£726k
- 2024£732k£718k
- 2023£677k£605k
Earlier years
- 2022£585k£563k
- 2021£665k£554k
Charitable objects
• The prevention or relief of poverty, through the provision of goods, services and facilities to those experiencing hardship regardless of their faith• The relief of those in need by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship of other disadvantage regardless of their faith• The advancement of the Christian religion by providing resources that enable churches and individual Christians to work together and by any other appropriate means
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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
- Linda Jane Emery Chair since 2023
- Carolyn Watson since 2024
- Helen Pitt since 2021
- James Pestell since 2024
- Nicola Barber since 2023
- Rev Thomas Murray since 2012
Trustees past 6 years
- Rev Thomas Murray since 2012
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (6)
- Linda Jane Emery Chair since 2023
- Carolyn Watson since 2024
- Helen Pitt since 2021
- James Pestell since 2024
- Nicola Barber since 2023
- Rev Thomas Murray since 2012
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
9.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 6.0 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1116253
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 26/04/2006AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 14/09/2006AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 19/06/2015 as amended on 09 May 2023 as amended on 04 Mar 2024
- Companies House
- Company number 05796693 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 0300 124 0204 · info@horsham-matters.org.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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