Finance Score: 3
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 5
  • Poor Liquidity: -1
  • Good Reserves: +1Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +5
Overall GiG Score: 17 ?

BHT SUSSEX 

BHT's Mission, delivered through its services, is aimed at combating homelessness, creating opportunities and promoting change. Since the 1960s BHT has developed a range of services to meet the needs of homeless, insecurely housed and vulnerable men and women. Our services aim to tackle both the causes and effects of homelessness and poverty.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appears to have been slender at the latest year end but unrestricted reserves are available
Established: 42 years

www.bht.org.uk

enquiries@bht.org.uk

01273645400

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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£16,943£16,848£95£17£11,479£11,169829229
31/03/22£14,976£14,628£348£10£11,384£10,8278.927015
31/03/21£13,754£13,375£379£33£11,036£10,1439.123430
31/03/20£12,296£12,175£121£53£9,991£9,1829.119450
31/03/19£12,450£12,214£236£38£9,870£8,7378.620075
31/03/18£12,324£11,909£415£36£9,634£8,2038.32000
31/03/17£12,903£11,986£918£30£9,281£7,8857.92100
31/03/16£13,126£12,580£546£43£8,372£7,1796.82130
31/03/15£13,280£13,019£261£133£6,648£6,2155.72200
31/03/14£13,094£12,948£146£0£6,388£6,1025.72460
31/03/13£12,549£12,531£18£25£6,328£6,2075.92440
31/03/12£10,591£10,367£224£19£7,250£7,1798.32340
31/03/11£9,741£9,372£368£18£13,916£10,43013.42140
31/03/10£8,804£8,461£343£43£13,966£10,51914.91920
31/03/09£8,112£8,026£86£43£10,859£7,40411.11860
31/03/08£7,897£7,946£-48£80£9,695£8,72213.21860
31/03/07£7,898£7,757£141£51£9,431£8,44813.11870
31/03/06£8,305£7,703£602£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£8,421£8,538£-117£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£8,445£8,168£277£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0.1%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0.1%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 3%
Highest pay band: £70,000-£80,000
Liabilities/Assets: 63%
Liabilities/Income: 118%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 97%
Reserves/Spending: 8 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 1 months
Quick Ratio: 0.4
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Accommodation/Housing
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who works here?
  • 292 employees
  • 29 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People With Disabilities
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Brighton And Hove, East Sussex, West Sussex,

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

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

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Archway
£4,700 16/09/2022
The funding will be used to support a gardening project creating a therapeutic space for users.
National Lottery Community Fund - Accommodation for Work Project
£314,539 15/12/2020
36
The organisation are using the funding to continue and develop their Accommodation for Work (AFW) Project over the next three years which provides bed spaces in houses situated across Brighton and ....more
Access to Justice Foundation - Joint Initiative Flexible COVID-19 Grant
£97,000 16/07/2020
A flexible grant as part of wave 1 of the Community Justice Fund. A pooled fund to support the specialist legal welfare advice sector in its response to COVID19
LandAid Charitable Trust - Hastings Young People's Project
£40,000 12/03/2018
2
The project involves refurbishment of four properties that make up BHT Young Peoples Service in Hastings. All 33 (31 existing/ 2 newly created) clients living in the properties (and their children in ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - The East Brighton Gateway Project
£293,233 01/10/2015
36
The East Brighton Gateway Project
National Lottery Community Fund - Accommodation for Work Project
£481,227 24/03/2015
59
Not Available
National Lottery Community Fund - Private Accommodation Access Team (PAAT)
£243,994 20/08/2013
36
This project aims to enable disadvantaged people to secure and sustain accommodation in the private rented sector (PRS), and build the confidence of private landlords to let affordable properties to ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Women's Involvement Network (WIN)
£156,672 30/05/2013
48
The aim of this new project is to increase the confidence and skills of disadvantaged women from Hastings and Rother to overcome barriers to employment. Brighton Housing Trust (BHT) will provide a ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Eastbourne Advice Services Transformation Project
£343,892 25/04/2013
24
The whole project design is based on embedding a new model for advice delivery by providers. It will engage all the advice providers so that the advice sector is able to utilise all provision to ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Brighton & Hove, Eastbourne and Hastings - Multiple and Complex Needs
£9,273,509 18/03/2013
120
This is a project by Brighton Housing Trust, a charity and registered company based in Brighton, serving the development of the Multiple and Complex Needs partnership in the Brighton & Hove, ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Hastings Housing Access Project
£290,600 13/03/2013
60
This expanding project in Hastings, East Sussex, aims to give homeless people skills to become tenancy-ready. The project will be developed in line with tenancy trends, creating a 'Sharers' Network' ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - First Impressions
£294,570 11/02/2013
48
This project aims to address the barriers preventing homeless people from becoming work ready and live healthy independent lives. The project gives service users more formal, CV relevant and ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Housing Access Project
£294,083 11/02/2013
60
This project aims to give homeless men and women skills to become tenancy ready to enable them to successfully find and secure accommodation and move on from homelessness. Through a training course ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Brighton Housing Trust
£105,000 24/08/2011
Towards an intern programme providing workplace experience to former homeless men and women to increase their chances of future employment.
National Lottery Community Fund - Finding Futures
£497,193 11/05/2011
60
The project will provide a supportive learning and development programme for young people and adults in Hastings who face multiple barriers to learning and employment. This could be lack of ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Threshold
£384,116 07/02/2011
36
The project from Brighton Housing Trust (BHT) aims to improve the mental and emotional wellbeing of women suffering from mental health issues and increase their chances of successfully moving on to ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - The Academy
£439,794 11/02/2010
60
This new project based in Brighton will set up an intensive training and employment project to give homeless and insecurely housed men and women the confidence, skills and training they need to help ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (10)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 9/10 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 45-76
  • GERALD MAIN Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Project Worker
  • MARY DAVIES Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Occupational Therapist
  • SARAH BUTLER Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Retired Higher Education Manager
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 08/07/1982, number: 284839
  • Registered at Companies House on 02/03/1982, number: 01618610
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Other Regulators
  • Care Quality Commission
  • Financial Conduct Authority
  • Homes England
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
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • 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
20 returns made; all on time
Main office

BRIGHTON HOUSING TRUST
144 LONDON ROAD
BRIGHTON
BN1 4PH

Objectives

OBJECTS 2.1 THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE: 2.1.1 (I) TO RELIEVE POVERTY BY THE PROVISION OF HOUSING; (II) THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS; (III) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF PERSONS WHO ARE EITHER HOMELESS OR IN NEED OR BOTH, AND THE FAMILIES OF SUCH PERSONS; IN SUCH WAYS AS THE BOARD (AS DEFINED IN THE ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION) THINK FIT; AND 2.1.2 TO PROMOTE THE STUDY OF AND RESEARCH INTO ALL ASPECTS AND METHODS OF RELIEF AND PREVENTION OF HOMELESSNESS AND RELIEF OF THOSE PERSONS IN NEED AND MAKE RECORDS AND DISSEMINATE THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH BOTH NATIONALLY AND MORE PARTICULARLY IN SUSSEX.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED IN PRACTICE SUSSEX

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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