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Registered charity · Ipswich

Community Action Suffolk

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £2.0m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 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, Economic/community Development/employment
Where
Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk
Website
www.communityactionsuffolk.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Community Action Suffolk
Registered
2013

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2.0m£2.3m
  • 2024£2.1m£2.3m
  • 2023£2.6m£2.5m
Earlier years
  • 2022£2.7m£2.5m
  • 2021£2.1m£1.9m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 11% · Government grants 40%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ARE TO PROMOTE ANY PURPOSE THAT IS CHARITABLE UNDER THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES, IN PARTICULAR WITHOUT LIMITATION PROMOTING THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR IN SUFFOLK. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THESE OBJECTS 'THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR' MEANS:CHARITIES WHICH ARE ORGANISATIONS, WHICH ARE ESTABLISHED FOR EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES.VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS WHICH ARE INDEPENDENT ORGANISATIONS, WHICH ARE ESTABLISHED FOR PURPOSES THAT ADD VALUE TO THE COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE, OR A SIGNIFICANT SECTION OF THE COMMUNITY, AND WHICH ARE NOT PERMITTED BY THEIR CONSTITUTION TO MAKE A PROFIT FOR PRIVATE DISTRIBUTION. VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS DO NOT INCLUDE LOCAL GOVERNMENT OR OTHER STATUTORY AUTHORITIES.

Grants received

25 grants · £3,666,561 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

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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.

9 trustees on the board

3.7y median 3y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

10.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

9
company-linked trustees

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

Economic/community Development/employment 9Education/training 9General Charitable Purposes 9

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 10Professional services 6Tech and media 6

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£2.0m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025
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.

4.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 8.0 in 2021

48 from 47 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.
51%
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
1150501
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 03 DEC 2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 14 SEP 2017 as amended on 14 May 2019 as amended on 24 Jul 2019
Companies House
Company number 08316345 · Active
Contact on the register
01473345400 · info@communityactionsuffolk.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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