Finance Score: -8
Governance Score: -7
Support Score: 8
  • Poor Liquidity: -1
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Fundraising costs high: -5
  • Only 3 Trustees: -2
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • All male board: -3
  • Grant maker support: +8
Overall GiG Score: -7 ?

THE SUSSEX BEACON 

The objects of the Sussex Beacon are to promote the prevention and control of the illness known as HIV/AIDS by public education and research and to relieve personal suffering from this illness and to support the families and friends of these persons. To this end the charity runs a ten bedroom in patient unit offering respite, convalescent and terminal care, and a day care service.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • There are only 3 trustees
  • The Board is completely male
  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age
  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • Liquidity appears to have been slender at the latest year end
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
  • Fundraising costs are extremely high relative to funds raised
Established: 36 years

www.sussexbeacon.org.uk

info@sussexbeacon.org.uk

01273694222

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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£1,811£2,314£-503£776£245£2191.152120
31/03/22£2,057£2,423£-365£1,075£749£6993.552140
31/03/21£1,338£1,550£-212£287£1,114£1,0918.43250
31/03/20£2,102£1,864£237£658£1,326£1,3098.424104
31/03/19£1,761£1,710£51£561£1,089£1,0817.637500
31/03/18£1,745£1,968£-224£640£1,038£1,0306.3310
31/03/17£1,964£2,253£-289£724£1,262£1,2566.7380
31/03/16£2,643£2,395£249£708£1,551£7974460
31/03/15£2,348£2,290£58£711£1,304£1,2866.7420
31/03/14£2,031£2,099£-68£600£1,244£1,2297660
31/03/13£2,024£1,988£36£569£1,314£1,3067.9430
31/03/12£1,867£1,867£0£507£1,275£1,2678.1450
31/03/11£1,631£1,726£-96£455£1,276£1,2658.8420
31/03/10£1,436£1,369£66£316£1,372£1,35811.9370
31/03/09£1,286£1,217£68£248£1,300£1,29912.8330
31/03/08£1,096£1,160£-64£178£1,236£1,21712.6330
31/03/07£1,251£1,331£-80£189£1,304£1,23411.1370
31/03/06*£1,231£1,564£-333£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05*£1,371£1,351£20£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04*£1,191£1,218£-27£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 74.2%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 33.5%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 74%
Liabilities/Income: 38%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 89%
Reserves/Spending: 1.1 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: -2 months
Quick Ratio: 0.1
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Disability
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • People With Disabilities
Who works here?
  • 52 employees
  • 120 volunteers

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.

Major supporters in last 5 years
National Lottery Community Fund£382,819
Garfield Weston Foundation£75,000
Sussex Community Foundation£35,897
Co-Operative Group£5,178
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Co-Operative Group - Grant to The Sussex Beacon
£2,662 21/10/2023
We support women and their families living with an HIV diagnosis. We would like to expand our mental health support for our women and families group, building resilience and reducing HIV stigma.
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to The Sussex Beacon
£10,000 11/11/2022
Funding was provided towards staff and electricity costs.
National Lottery Community Fund - Sussex Beacon help with rising core costs
£10,000 11/11/2022
The funding will be used to support the group with core costs to provide specialist care for people living with HIV. The project aims to promote independence and improve health and wellbeing.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to The Sussex Beacon
£2,516 22/10/2022
We would like to be able to dedicate additional staff time towards assisting people living with HIV, and provide further mental health support.
National Lottery Community Fund - Enhanced support for people ageing with HIV
£372,819 15/06/2022
The project is using funding to offer support for people ageing with HIV in Sussex. The aim is to support people living with HIV to age as well as possible through education advice advocacy and peer ....more
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - The Sussex Beacon - 21/04/22
£5,000 23/05/2022
Core Funding
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£30,000 20/05/2022
Maintaining resilience during the second year of Covid-19
Sussex Community Foundation - The Sussex Beacon, Community Services
£10,000 25/02/2022
Funding was provided to enable them to continue to deliver their services outside of Brighton, in particular the exercise class, HIV specialist casework support in the community across East and West ....more
Masonic Trust - MCF Hospice
£970 10/11/2021
Unrestricted funding for hospices
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£15,000 12/02/2021
Supporting our patients during Covid-19
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Sussex Beacon
£2,500 11/08/2020
The Sussex Beacon is a 10 bed Hospice based within Brighton caring for patients with HIV as well as other secondary underlying conditions. Funding is for purchasing a new washing machine for their ....more
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£2,500 10/08/2020
NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots ....more
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Sussex Beacon
£9,897 29/06/2020
The Sussex Beacon is a 10 bed Hospice based within Brighton caring for patients with HIV as well as other secondary underlying conditions. Funding will support a HIV Community worker role. This is a ....more
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Sussex Beacon
£3,500 30/03/2020
The Sussex Beacon is a 10 bed Hospice based within Brighton caring for patients with HIV as well as other secondary underlying conditions. Funding will be used to facilitate their new 24/7 phone line ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£30,000 29/05/2019
Maintaining Hope - the plan for a sustainable Sussex Beacon
National Lottery Community Fund - HIV and ageing project
£287,333 18/04/2019
36
This project provides specialist hospital care and health management services which enable people living with HIV to achieve improved health and wellbeing and increased independence. The funding will ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Sussex Beacon
£90,000 13/03/2014
36
towards three years' running costs of the 'Living Well' project for people living with HIV in Sussex
National Lottery Community Fund - Positive Health for Women
£478,529 13/01/2011
60
This project will provide support services for HIV+ women in Brighton and Hove, East and West Sussex. The project will deliver one to one structured casework, both on site and at an outreach location ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (3)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 52-65
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 21/01/1988, number: 298388
  • Registered at Companies House on 16/12/1987, number: 02205876
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Other Regulators
  • Care Quality Commission
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
  • 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; AR06: 15 days late, AR05: 3 days late, AR04: 1 days late,
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from PEER ACTION on 08/06/2023
Main office

Sussex Beacon
10 Bevendean Road
BRIGHTON
BN2 4DE

Objectives

TO PROMOTE THE PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF LIFE LIMITING ILLNESSES, TO INCLUDE, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE ILLNESS KNOWN AS ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME (AIDS) OR ANY RELATED HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS (HIV) ILLNESS BY PUBLIC EDUCATION AND RESEARCH INTO THE ILLNESS OR ANY RELATED ILLNESS AND BY THE DISSEMINATION OF THE RESULTS OF ANY SUCH RESEARCH; AND3.2 TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF PERSONS SUFFERING FROM THE SAID ILLNESSES OR ANY RELATED ILLNESS INCLUDING BY SUPPORTING THE FAMILIES, RELATIVES, CLOSE FRIENDS, AND COHABITEES OF SUCH PERSONS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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