## **THE BRIGHTON TRUST** **Charity Registration Number 1168754 STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS FOR THE PERIOD ENDED 31[st] DECEMBER 2025** |Income & Expenditure The Brighton Trust 2025
~~Oe~~|Income & Expenditure The Brighton Trust 2025
~~Oe~~|Income & Expenditure The Brighton Trust 2025
~~Oe~~|Income & Expenditure The Brighton Trust 2025
~~Oe~~|Income & Expenditure The Brighton Trust 2025
~~Oe~~|Income & Expenditure The Brighton Trust 2025
~~Oe~~| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |~~————~~|**INCOME**
~~————~~|~~————~~|**Expenditure**
~~————~~||| |~~————~~|**2024**
~~————~~|**2025**
~~————~~|~~————~~|**2024**
~~————~~|**2025**
~~————~~| |**Al Tawfawk Appeal**
~~————~~|**16,389**
~~————~~|**60,671 **
~~————~~|**Al Tafawk - Expenditure**
~~————~~|**18,500**
~~————~~|**46,972**
~~————~~| |**Crowdfunding - Refugee Appeal**|**0**|**4,993 **|**Computers**|**1,800**|**3,596**| |**Donation BUWC**|**5,700**|**2,114 **|**Education**|**400**|**185**| |**Donations**|**1,393**|**13,313 **|**Financial Charges**|**150**|**160**| |**Gift Aid**|**0**|**8,247 **|**Governance**|**36**|**44**| |**Interest**|**46**|**91 **|**Grantspaid**|**2,100**|**25,051**| |**Miscellaneous**|**856**|**5,127 **|**Misc Expense**|**36**|**301**| |**Tom Paine Sponsored Walk**|**0**|**1,550 **|**Stationery-Admin**|**480**|**513**| ||||**Travel**|**121**|**218**| |~~—~~|~~—~~|~~—~~|**Welfare**
~~—~~|**89**
~~—~~|**149**
~~—~~| |~~—~~|~~—~~|~~—~~|~~—~~|~~—~~|~~—~~| |**Total Income**
~~—~~|**24,384**
~~—~~|**96,107 **
~~—~~|**Total Expenditure**
~~—~~|**23,712**
~~—~~|**77,189**
~~—~~| |**Balance**
~~—~~|**672**
~~—~~|**18,918**
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| |~~Se~~|||||| |**Balance Forward 1.1.25.**
~~Se~~|**16,906**
||||| |**Balance Forward 31.12.25. - net**
~~Se~~|**Balance Forward 31.12.25. - net**
**2,898**
||||| |**Reserves**
~~Seee~~|**32,926**
~~ee~~|~~ee~~|~~ee~~|~~ee~~|~~ee~~| |~~Seee~~|~~ee~~|~~ee~~|~~ee~~|~~ee~~|~~ee~~| |**Signed & Approved**
~~ee~~|~~ee~~|**Trustee**
~~ee~~|**Dated 2nd March 2026**
~~ee~~|~~ee~~|~~ee~~| |~~ee~~|~~ee~~|~~ee~~|~~ee~~|~~ee~~|~~ee~~| ## Brighton Trust - Grants Paid 2025 AZJ Badge Project (Watermelon Badges) 250 Brighton & Hove PSC – Amjar tour from Askar Camp, Nablus 250 Cage Anti-Racism Project 550 Campaign For Workers Rights 255 The Canary 25 Care 4 Calais 500 Charlottes Bag (Cancer charity) 250 Codepink 163.02 Court Support 1,201.00 Crispin Flintoft 350 Crowdjustice – civil liberties 100 Education Grants 877 Edward Said School 150 Electronic Intifada 639.95 European Legal Support Centre 1,491.36 Freedom From Torture 257.5 Friends Of Hebron 259.76 Gaza Refugees 5,378.04 Grant Action Hubs 200 Greg Hadfield Crowd Justice 100 Help Gaza Now Appeal 130 Hind Rajab Foundation 251.2 Islamic Help 250 Jewish AntiZionist Congress 504.74 Lavender Common 102.4 LONDON KEHILLAH 1,350.00 Medical Aid for Palestine 751.51 Middle East Children’s Association 754.06 Mondoweiss 443.7 Palestine Chronicle 482.71 Palestine Miscellaneous 284.25 Parents4Palestine 400 Platform Films 250 Prison Support 453.45 Pure Hope 250 Refugee Donation 137.74 Refuser Solidarity Network 431.54 Reginald Hunter Crowdfunder 500 Sara's Crowdfunder (Gaza Student) 501 Skwawkbox 100 Spotlight 200 The Queery 495 Third Space Theatre 250 Tom Paine Sponsored Walk 1,530.00 Unisresist Border Control 500 US Peace Camp 250 Whitehawk Foodbank 250 **TOTAL 25,050.93** _**The Brighton Trust**_ **Trustees' Annual Report for the year ended 31[st] December 2025** The trustees present their report and financial statements for the year ended 31[st] December 2025 In accordance with Section 4 (6) of the Charities Act 2006 and the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 the trustees have given due regard to the guidance on public benefit issued by the Charity Commission when exercising their powers and duties during the period. ## **Reference and administration details** Charity name: The Brighton Trust Charity registration number: 1168754 Principal address: PO Box 173, Rottingdean, Brighton BN51 9EZ The officers who manage the charity are as follows: ## **Name Office** William J North Chairperson Andy Richards Hon Secretary Tony Greenstein Hon Treasurer The custodian trustees for the charity are as follows: ## **Trustee Name** Elizabeth Bradley Matthew Webb Nimi Hoffman Valerie Cane ## **Other relevant Organizations** ## **Bankers** Santander, _2 Triton Square, Regent's Place, London, NW1 3AN_ _**Independent Examiner**_ ## **Structure, governance & management** The Trust was established by deed on 20 January 2016 and registered as a charity on 16 August 2016. the creation of a constitution which was adopted on 21st June 1998. Trustees are appointed to the Trustee Board by other trustees in accordance with Clause 9 of the Trust Deed.. ## **Objectives and activities** The Trust’s objectives are: - a) The prevention or relief of poverty in Brighton and Hove. - b) To relieve poverty [or financial hardship] and to provide education and other forms of support for refugees, asylum seekers, migrant workers. - c) The promotion of equality and diversity. - d) To provide small grants to students in further or higher education who have a connection with Brighton and Hove - e) To promote the conservation, protection and improvement of the physical and natural environment - f) To advance such charitable purposes as the trustees see fit from time to time. - g) To achieve all of the above by the provision of small grants to organisations ## **The charity’s activities are primarily the provision of small grants to a variety of ‘unpopular’** ## **groups and causes and in particular the support of the Al Tafawk Children’s Centre in Jenin, Occupied Palestine which has been subject to attack on numerous occasions by the Israeli military.** ## **Financial review** In the financial year 2025 we had an income of £96,106 and expenditure of £76,416 leaving a surplus of £19,690 and net current assets of £2,898. We also put £33,698 into reserves. The Trust had an extremely successful financial year, increasing our income fourfold and our expenditure threefold. We also set aside over £33,000 in reserves. These are deposited in fixed bonds at market rates. In the previous financial year we increased our support for the Al Tafawk Children’s Centre from £18,500 to £46,200. We also increased the level of grants given to small groups and other charities from just over £2,000 to £24,597. ## **Trustees’ responsibilities** The trustees have overall responsibility for ensuring that the charity has appropriate systems of controls, financial and otherwise. They are also responsible for keeping proper accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charity and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the appropriate regulations. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charity and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities. ## **Declaration** The trustees declare that they have approved the Trustees' Report above. Signed: Name: William J North Position: Chair of Trustees Signed on behalf of the Trustees 02 March 2026 The Al Tafawk Centre in Pictures ## **The Brighton Trust** ## **STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS** **ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31[st] DECEMBER 2026** |**Monetary Assets**|| |---|---| |Bank balances – Unrestricted funds|£2,898| |Reserves|£32,926| |Cash Balances|Nil| **Total £ 35,824** The Brighton Trust Independent Examiner's Report For the YIE 31 December 2025 I report on the accounts of the Brighton Trust for the y/e 31 December 2025. In connection with my examination, no matter has come to my attention: Which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in any material aspect the requirements to keep accounting records in accordance with s.41 of the Charities Act 1993 and prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and to comply with the accounting To which, in requirements of the Act have not been met; or my opinion, attention should be drawn in ord¢r to ¢nable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. th Monday 9 March 2026 David Maples Palmeira Avenue, Hove BN3