Sussex Community NHS Charity

Analysis

Sussex Community NHS Charity is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Brighton. It was registered in January 1996, 30 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives and disability, which this site groups under health and saving lives. It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Sussex Community NHS Charity reported income of £141k and spending of £568k, spending 402% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £279k to £141k (-49%), an average of -16% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income rose by 80%. Over the whole period it spent 231% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Sussex Community NHS Charity sits at the 68th percentile: it is larger than about 68% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 76th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Food Behind Bars (£141k), Phileo Agapao (Philadelphia International Christian Center) (£141k) and Children's Hearts UK (£141k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.