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Registered charity · Brighton

Downs View Life Skills College

  • 5 trustees
  • Income £1.4m (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
Education/training
Where
Brighton And Hove
Website
downsviewlifeskillscollege.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Downs View Life Skills College
Registered
2019

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.4m£1.3m
  • 2024£1.4m£1.2m
  • 2023£1.4m£1.1m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.3m£1.0m
  • 2021£1.0m£1.0m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 65% · Government grants 35%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DIFFICULTIES BY ADVANCING THEIR LIFE SKILLS AND ABILITIES THROUGH THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SUPPORT TO SUCH PEOPLE AND THEIR FAMILIES AND CARERS.

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

3.8y median 5y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

4.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (4)

Portfolio (1)

3
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 5Religious Activities 1The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 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 3

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£1.4m latest income · income exceeded spending 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.

12.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 4.4 in 2021

0
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.
99%
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
1185149
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 20 NOV 2017AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 17 JUL 2018AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 20 JUN 2018AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 25 JUL 2018AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 29 AUG 2019
Companies House
Company number 11073037 · Active
Contact on the register
01273551028 · admin-lifeskills@downsview.brighton-hove.sch.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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