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Registered charity · Brighton

BHT Sussex

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £19m (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
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Accommodation/housing
Where
East Sussex, West Sussex, Brighton And Hove
Website
www.bht.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
BHT Sussex
Registered
1982

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£19m£18m
  • 2024£18m£18m
  • 2023£17m£17m
Earlier years
  • 2022£15m£15m
  • 2021£14m£13m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 36% · Government grants 7%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

OBJECTS 2.1 THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE: 2.1.1 (I) TO RELIEVE POVERTY BY THE PROVISION OF HOUSING; (II) THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS; (III) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF PERSONS WHO ARE EITHER HOMELESS OR IN NEED OR BOTH, AND THE FAMILIES OF SUCH PERSONS; IN SUCH WAYS AS THE BOARD (AS DEFINED IN THE ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION) THINK FIT; AND 2.1.2 TO PROMOTE THE STUDY OF AND RESEARCH INTO ALL ASPECTS AND METHODS OF RELIEF AND PREVENTION OF HOMELESSNESS AND RELIEF OF THOSE PERSONS IN NEED AND MAKE RECORDS AND DISSEMINATE THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH BOTH NATIONALLY AND MORE PARTICULARLY IN SUSSEX.

Grants received

29 grants · £15,683,009 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

Most recent

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.

10 trustees on the board

5.4y median 5y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (1)

10
company-linked trustees

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

Accommodation/housing 10The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 10Environment/conservation/heritage 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.

Property 10Arts and leisure 1Health and social care 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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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£18.5m 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.

0.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 9.9 in 2021

309 from 234 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.
43%
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
284839
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 02/03/1982AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 22/01/1996AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 29/08/2006AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 26/02/2007AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 28/02/2011AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 23/07/2012 as amended on 10 Apr 2021
Companies House
Company number 01618610 · Active
Contact on the register
01273645400 · enquiries@bht.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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