How we are funded

Income

Pie chart showing breakdown of Resource Centre income 2025-26

In the financial year 2025-26, our total income was £197,752.

We raised £41,383 (21%) of this from our print and equipment services.

As always, the core of our income came from regular grants and contracts:

  • We received £89,853 from Brighton & Hove City Council’s Thriving Communities Investment Fund. This was 45% of our total income and, as always, is really critical for the continued existence of the Resource Centre. It funds most of our front desk work, enabling us to provide our print, hire and advice service on a drop-in basis.
  • Our funding from the Thriving Communities Investment Fund also included a ringfenced amount of £36,000 for our work to support residents associations in Brighton & Hove council housing. This funding is shown separately in the pie chart above. It comprised 18% of our income in 2025-26. These funds allowed us to provide free advice and support to tenants’ associations and secretarial support for their participation in the Resident Involvement structure.
  • We also provide free advice and support for early years and childcare settings in the most marginalised neighbourhoods of Brighton & Hove. This work is free of charge to the groups and is funded by a contract with City Early Years and Childcare. We received £7,500, which accounted for 4% of our total income.

As well as these regular grants and contracts we are grateful to a range of funders for additional grant funding in 2025-26. We received:

  • £10,000 (5%) from Sussex Community Foundation, to support our advice and support work with member groups
  • £8,000 (4%) from The Garfield Weston Foundation, to support our advice and support work with member groups

Finally, we received £5,016 in miscellaneous donations and bank interest, which together make up 3% of our total income.

Expenditure

Pie chart showing breakdown of Resource Centre expenditure 2025-26: Front desk and online services - 59% Resident Association support - 18% Other intensive support - 16% Service development - 6% Fundraising - 2%

Our total expenditure for the year was £209,174.

As always staff costs, at £153,510, made up by far the largest part (73%) of our expenditure.

The remainder of our expenditure was as follows:

  • £18,154 on direct service provision and equipment
  • £35,270 on premises and other essential core costs
  • £4,843 on direct costs of our website development project, funded by a grant from The Fore, which was received in 2024-25

Our 2025-26 annual accounts will be approved at our AGM in October 2026.

Page updated: May 2026