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Registered charity · Kent

Rising SUN Domestic Violence & Abuse Service

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £1.4m (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Where
Kent
Website
www.risingsunkent.com (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Rising SUN Domestic Violence & Abuse Service LTD
Registered
1984

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.4m£1.5m
  • 2024£1.4m£1.4m
  • 2023£1.4m£1.3m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.3m£1.1m
  • 2021£1.4m£973k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 55%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(A) TO RELIEVE MENTAL OF PHYSICAL DISTRESS AMONG WOMEN WHO HAVE BEEN MALTREATED BY THEIR HUSBANDS OR THE MAN WITH WHOM THEY ARE LIVING AND AMONG THE CHILDREN OF SUCH WOMEN. (B) TO RELIEVE POVERTY AMONG SUCH WOMEN AND CHILDREN OR WOMEN IN GENERAL BY SUCH MEANS AS THE COUNCIL OF MANAGEMENT MAY IN ITS ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE.

Grants received

34 grants · £3,099,588 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

3.4y median 1y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

4.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

9
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 10General Charitable Purposes 10The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 10

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 9Other services 1Property 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£1.4m latest income
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.

9.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 7.4 in 2021

48 from 33 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
289253
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 22/02/1984AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 10/04/2003AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 06/02/2014
Companies House
Company number 01794133 · Active
Contact on the register
01227452852 · admin@risingsunkent.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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