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 total360Giving 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
- The National Lottery Community Fund · £1,572,015 (6 grants)
- Monument Trust · £379,000 (2 grants)
- Henry Smith Foundation · £90,000
- Garfield Weston Foundation · £75,000 (3 grants)
- Sussex Community Foundation · £35,897 (5 grants)
Most recent
- The National Lottery Community Fund
- The National Lottery Community Fund
- The National Lottery Community Fund
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
- Paul James Hilly Chair since 2017
- Dr Richard Ma since 2022
- Dr Sonia Frances Ganai since 2024
- Ian Matthew Wilson since 2024
- Jason Keith Palmer since 2024
Trustees past 6 years
- Paul James Hilly Chair since 2017
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (5)
- Paul James Hilly Chair since 2017
- Dr Richard Ma since 2022
- Dr Sonia Frances Ganai since 2024
- Ian Matthew Wilson since 2024
- Jason Keith Palmer since 2024
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
1.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 3.0 in 2021
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
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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