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Registered charity · Brighton

The Sussex Beacon

  • 5 trustees
  • Income £1.7m (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th 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, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.sussexbeacon.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Sussex Beacon
Registered
1988

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.7m£1.8m
  • 2024£1.9m£1.8m
  • 2023£1.8m£2.3m
Earlier years
  • 2022£2.1m£2.4m
  • 2021£1.3m£1.6m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 41%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE THE PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF LIFE LIMITING ILLNESSES, TO INCLUDE, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE ILLNESS KNOWN AS ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME (AIDS) OR ANY RELATED HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS (HIV) ILLNESS BY PUBLIC EDUCATION AND RESEARCH INTO THE ILLNESS OR ANY RELATED ILLNESS AND BY THE DISSEMINATION OF THE RESULTS OF ANY SUCH RESEARCH; AND3.2 TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF PERSONS SUFFERING FROM THE SAID ILLNESSES OR ANY RELATED ILLNESS INCLUDING BY SUPPORTING THE FAMILIES, RELATIVES, CLOSE FRIENDS, AND COHABITEES OF SUCH PERSONS.

Grants received

23 grants · £2,163,372 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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Most recent

Board analysis for researchers

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 2y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

10.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

5
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 5General Charitable Purposes 5The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 5

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 5Other services 1Tech and media 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£1.7m 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.

1.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 3.0 in 2021

55 from 32 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
298388
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 16 DECEMBER 1987, AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 1 NOVEMBER 1995, 4 DECEMBER 1996, 19 OCTOBER 2005, 2 JULY 2008 AND 5 NOVEMBER 2008 AND 18 NOVEMBER 2009 as amended on 29 Nov 2021
Companies House
Company number 02205876 · Active
Contact on the register
01273694222 · info@sussexbeacon.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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