Brighton Seafront Heritage Trust

Analysis

Brighton Seafront Heritage Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Brighton. It was registered in September 1998, 28 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training and arts/culture/heritage/science, which this site groups under arts, culture, heritage and science. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 03609532). It says it provides human resources, provides buildings/facilities/open space and sponsors or undertakes research.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Brighton Seafront Heritage Trust reported income of £67k and spending of £59k, spending 88% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £71k to £67k (-6.7%), an average of -1.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 46%. Over the whole period it spent 97% of the income it received.

Among 17,634 England and Wales charities whose main cause is arts, culture, heritage and science and that reported income, Brighton Seafront Heritage Trust sits at the 74th percentile: it is larger than about 74% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 65th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Friends of Pershore Abbey CIO (£66k), The Gantry Youth Theatre (£67k) and Streatham Choral Society (£66k).