Sussex Green Living
Period to 31 March 2025
Charity Number 1189569
SUSSEX GREEN LIVING
ACCOUNTS FOR THE PERIOD FROM
01 APRIL 2024 TO 31 MARCH 2025
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Trustees’ Report for the period ending 31 March 2025
The Trustees are pleased to present their report together with the accounts for Sussex Green Living (the Charity), for the period to 31 March 2025.
Constitution: Sussex Green Living is a Foundation Charitable Incorporated Organisation and was registered with the Charity Commission on 20 May 2020. The constitution of the Charity was adopted on 17 April 2020 and was based on the Charity Commission model constitution. This has remained unchanged through the 2024 – 2025 year.
Objective: Sussex Green Living’s objective is to provide education to the public on how to adopt an environmentally friendly lifestyle and improve their ability to reduce their negative impact on the planet. It provides practical solutions to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
The trustees confirm that they have referred to the Charity Commission’s general guidance on public benefit when reviewing our Trust’s objectives and in planning future activities.
Achievements and performance : It has been a year of good progress and achievement for SGL. At the end of the last reporting period it was decided to engage the services of a professional fundraiser. This decision proved to be of great help to the charity in that we secured over double the income of the previous year and benefitted from insightful reports regarding grant giving.
We have, therefore, been able to maintain a part-time member of staff to assist the CEO and increase the hours of the marketing/communications officer. Backed by grant funding we have also been able to contract more people for specific tasks to deliver, for example, an expanded school environmental education programme and a massively successful Plant to Plate event. Due to SGL’s reputation and track-record demand has steadily increased. The financial year was a record for SGL in that it delivered 26 school visits, twelve SGH organised events and a number of other public events. Very encouraging, but with limited resources demand inevitably exceeds supply.
The Horsham based monthly Sussex Green Hub has maintained strong public interest in its repair café, recycling information and advice, and the refill service. We have expanded the range of our less waste eco cleaning refill products and added a refill oat-drink powder product, further reducing the carbon footprint. This key concept we have expanded by helping set-up or mentoring mini Green Hubs in a number of towns and villages across the county.
During the year SGL successfully created a Green Business Network of local businesses, helping them both corporately and individually to develop their awareness of climate issues and take steps to becoming more environmentally friendly. This has also generated income for some educational projects and for our innovative Pollination Education Stations which are now appearing all over Sussex.
SGL took the opportunity as it was a general election year to invite all local political parties and candidates to a Hub event and asking them to sign our climate pledge.
We endeavoured to realise the aspiration of establishing a daily Climate Action Hub on the High Street, but the necessity of raising a minimum of three year funding to cover capital and staff costs
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proved elusive. Consequently we are now re-thinking this concept and exploring ways of reaching more rural communities.
An additional challenge has been that of personnel changes at board, staff and contractor level. This inevitably meant available human resources becoming stretched as we are still reliant on a small core team to ensure operational effectiveness. However, we appear to have achieved this through contracting environmental educators to help in schools and with the organisation of the Plant to Plate event; we are approaching the forthcoming year in a better financial state and with greater confidence and purpose.
Reference and administration details: For year ending 31 March 2025
Charity number 1189569 Email: info@sussexgreenlivng.org.uk Website: www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk
Contact address: The White House, Coneyhurst, Billingshurst, West Sussex, RH14 9DH
The trustees at the date of this report and those that served since incorporation are as follows:
| Charitynumber | 1189569 | |
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| Email: info@sussexgreenlivng.org.uk Website: www.sussexgreenliving.org.uk Contact address: The White House, Coneyhurst, Billingshurst, West Sussex, RH14 9DH The trustees at the date of this report and those that served since incorporation are as follows: |
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| Paul Bellringer OBE, Chair Lorraine Bennett-Runton Philippa Chapman - Treasurer Dan Petrak - Treasurer Amy Isted Karen Mellor Hamish McDermid Liz Thorn |
Appointed 20 May 2020 Appointed 16 January 2025 Appointed 1 September 2024 Appointed 25 August 2021 Appointed 16 January 2025 Appointed 20 May 2020 Appointed 8 November 2022 Appointed 25 August 2021 |
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| Key management personnel |
Carrie Cort Eve Delves Joy Carter Sheila Humphries |
CEO Communications Officer Waste reduction Manager PA to the board of trustees |
| Bankers | The Co-operative Bank 1 Balloon St,Manchester M60 4EP |
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| Independent examiner |
Lynn Rowlands |
Financial review: Our policy is to maintain appropriate reserves to cover our immediate operating needs which, at any one time, are normally less than £3,500. The Trustees review receipts and payments on a periodic basis and the level of expenditure is set to ensure that there will be adequate resources available to meet commitments made as they fall due.
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Approved by the Trustees and signed on its behalf 11[th] December 2025
Paul Bellringer OBE Chair of Trustees
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ACCOUNTS FOR THE PERIOD TO 31 MARCH 2025 RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS ACCOUNT
| Notes | 2025 Total £ |
2025 Unrestricted funds £ |
2025 Restricted funds £ |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Receipts Donations and grants |
79,809 | 51,802 | 28,007 | |
| Total receipts | 79,809 | 51,802 | 28,007 | |
| Payments | ||||
| Salary | 11,809 | 8,148 | 3,661 | |
| Climate Communications incl. officer,stalls & |
11,389 | 3,189 | 8,200 | |
| Finance & Admin | 8,762 | 2,541 | 6,221 | |
| Refill shop expenses | 7,852 | 7,852 | 0 | |
| Contractors (Educators) | 3,102 | 1,551 | 1,551 | |
| Travel | 2,411 | 1,133 | 1,278 | |
| Website & IT | 1,389 | 1,195 | 194 | |
| Other charitable expenses <£1,000 | 4,723 | 2,267 | 2,456 | |
| Total payments | 51,437 | 27,876 | 23,561 | |
| Fund b/f | 18,388 | 18,388 | 0 | |
| Fund balance at 31 March 2025 | 46,760 | 42,314 | 4,446 |
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STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES AS AT 31 MARCH 2025
| Notes | 2025 £ | |
|---|---|---|
| Assets Cash in Bank and in hand |
46,760 | |
| Total Assets | 46,760 | |
| Total funds | 46,760 |
Notes to the accounts
- These accounts have been prepared on a cash basis. As the Charity is registered in England and Wales, is not a company and has gross income that is not over £250,000 it is permitted under section 133 of the Charities Act 2011 to prepare receipts and payments accounts.
Approved by the Trustees and signed on its behalf on 11[th] December 2025
Paul Bellringer OBE Chair of Trustees
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