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Registered charity · Brighton

Chichester Diocesan Association for Family Support Work

Chichester Diocesan Association for Family Support Work is a registered charity (number 285337) based in Brighton, governed by 9 trustees and chaired by Edward Richard Bickersteth since 2024. Latest income £965k (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 18th October 2026.

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £965k (2025)
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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Where
East Sussex, West Sussex, Brighton And Hove
Website
www.familysupportwork.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Chichester Diocesan Association for Family Support Work
Registered
1982

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£965k£1.2m
  • 2024£1.1m£1.1m
  • 2023£942k£1000k
Earlier years
  • 2022£689k£825k
  • 2021£999k£845k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 2%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

1) TO SUPPORT FAMILIES INDIVIDUALS AND GROUPS WITHIN THE COMMUNITY WHO ARE IN NEED BY REASON OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, ILL HEALTH, DISABILITY OR STRESS 2) TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF AND CARE OF CHILDREN IN NEED 3) TO ADVANCE CHRISTIANITY BY FAMILY SUPPORT WORK AND THE WELFARE OF THE COMMUNITY

Grants received

48 grants · £1,402,402 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.

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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

2.6y median 2y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
14.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (3)

Portfolio (6)

9
company-linked trustees

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

General Charitable Purposes 8Disability 7The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 6Religious Activities 4Education/training 2

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 10Other services 5Education 4

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£965k 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.

2.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 3.4 in 2021

31 from 27 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.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
285337
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 07/07/1982AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 13/07/1984AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 29/06/1995AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 03/07/2007AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 16/07/2015
Companies House
Company number 01648903 · Active
Contact on the register
01273832963 · admin@familysupportwork.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 18th October 2026
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