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Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 0
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • No supporters identified
Overall GiG Score: 11 ?

BRIGHTON LIGHT TRUST

The Brighton Light Trust is the charitable trust behind the Brighton & Hove CAP Debt Centre run in partnership with Holland Road Baptist Church in Hove. Christians Against Poverty (CAP) is a national debt counselling charity that offers a face-to-face, comprehensive solution to those struggling under the burden of debt.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k		 Spending
£k		 Surplus/
Deficit £k		 Fundraising
Cost £k		 Total
Funds £k		 Unrestricted
Funds £k		 Mths
Rsrvs		 Staff Volun-
teers
31/12/23£92£89£2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/22£83£89£-5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/21£50£53£-3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/20£50£49£1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/19£48£49£-1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/18£40£44£-4n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/17£35£45£-9n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/16£56£40£16n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/15£32£24£8n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/14£44£33£11n/an/an/an/an/an/a
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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 11 years

www.brightonlighttrust.org.uk

capcentre@brightonlighttrust.org.uk

01273 322730

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Provides financial or material assistance
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Brighton And Hove,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months		 To be used for
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Brighton Light Trust
£5,000 10/03/2016
12
towards one year's running costs of a debt advice service in Brighton and Hove

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 31-64
  • ANDREI POP Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Mobile Architect
  • DAVE TRENEER (Chair) Appointed: 2013, Occupation: Pastor
  • EMMA JANE FLETCHER Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Teacher
  • LAURA LURCOCK Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Local Government Support Officer
  • OLIVIA WILSON Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Teacher
  • RAYMOND JOHN FRANCIS Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Software Architect
  • SHERIDAN LYNCH Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Retired
  • STEPHEN WALKER Appointed: 2015, Occupation: Operations Manger
  • TIMOTHY ISON Appointed: 2024, Occupation: Librarian
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 04/12/2013, number: 1154869
  • Registered at Companies House on 11/04/2013, number: 08484445
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
10 returns made; all on time
Main office

71 Holland Road
Hove
BN3 1JN

Objectives

THE CHARITY’S OBJECTS (“OBJECTS”) FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT ARE THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY BY THE PROVISION OF FUNDS, GOODS OR SERVICES OF ANY KIND IN BRIGHTON AND HOVE AND IN SUCH PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME MAY THINK FIT.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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