FRIENDS FIRST
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Shareholders' funds
£50,506
Balance sheet as at 2025-08-31
What it does
Friends First Trust aims to contribute toward: reducing long-term unemployment reducing homelessness reducing social isolation increasing the provision of safe supportive housing Friends First also works with socially minded property investors, enabling Friends First beneficiaries access to secure and affordable accommodation. The accommodation Friends First have available includes: short stay and emergency accommodation, shared housing and lodgings in the local community. Friends First provides intensive personal support for beneficiaries to assist them in gaining momentum and achieving independent living. Alongside this Friends First recruit, screen, and train volunteer mentors and befrienders to come alongside beneficiaries living in their local communities. The charity also has access to counselling referral and regularly works alongside and signposts to other like-minded agencies in the city.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption)
- Incorporated
- 2002-03-22
- Employees
- 2 (2025 accounts)
- Registered office
- 21-23 Clarendon Villas, Hove, East Sussex, BN3 3RE
- Postcode
- BN3 3RE
- Accounts category
- Total Exemption Full
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-08-31
- Next due by
- 2027-05-31
- Financial year end
- 31 August
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-03-22
- Next due by
- 2027-04-05
Nature of business (SIC)
- 87200 Residential care activities for mental retardation, mental health and substance abuse
- 87900 Other residential care activities not elsewhere classified
- 88990 Other social work activities without accommodation not elsewhere classified
Officers 8 current · 22 resigned
Registered charity
FRIENDS FIRST — charity number 1094827
Source: Charity Commission for England and Wales register, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Contact details
Among its peers
2nd oldest
of 57 similar companies in BN, trading since 2002
Competitors Brighton
This company ranks 15 among residential care activities for mental retardation, mental health and substance abuse in Brighton.
The class of 2002
39%
of the 122,927 companies incorporated in 2002 are still active today; 58% have since been dissolved.
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