Community Action Sutton

Analysis

Community Action Sutton is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Sutton. It was registered in June 1997, 29 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 03336660). It says it acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Community Action Sutton reported income of £2.2m and spending of £2.3m, spending 102% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £884k to £2.2m (+149%), an average of +26% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income rose by 121%. Over the whole period it spent 103% of the income it received.

Among 5,976 England and Wales charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Community Action Sutton sits at the 97th percentile: it is larger than about 97% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 96th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Talent Fund (£2.2m), Edcity Office (£2.2m) and Wandsworth Citizens Advice Bureaux Limited (£2.2m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 93%, investments 4.0% and trading 3.4%. Charitable activities took 99% of spending and raising funds 0.5%. Grants to other organisations totalled £1.6m. Reserves of £479k would cover about 3 months of spending at that rate. It employed 10 people.

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.