CROSSWAYS COMMUNITY

Registered charity 1007156 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CROSSWAYS

We help people who experience enduring mental health difficulties. Accommodation is available for up to 40 people mainly through our registered care home, hostel & independent living flats in Tunbridge Wells.We offer person-centred care and our residents are encouraged through their support workers to take responsibility for their own lives with a view to moving back into the local community.

Objects

To relieve sickness and to preserve the health of people suffering from poor mental health of any description or in need of rehabilitation as a result of such poor health by the provision of all appropriate means including (but not limited to) accommodation, equipment, facilities for work or recreation, treatment, support, care, counselling, education, training and practical advice. To advance the education of the public in mental health by the provision of all appropriate means including (but not limited to) information, teaching, seminars, support, care, counselling, advocacy, campaigning and practical advice. To advance the Protestant and Evangelical faithTo deliver these objects as a response to the love of God and the example of Jesus Christ.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Accommodation/housing · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Tunbridge Wells, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net deficit of £125,549 for the year ended 30 April 2025, following a deficit of £313,523 in the prior year. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £8,818,751, which exceeds the stated policy target of retaining no less than six months' running costs. The charity maintains a positive working capital position of £1,539,540 and bank balances of £1,506,403 at year end.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Peter Hodgson & Co. Ltd.. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Andy Wheeler — Chief Executive (source)
• Linden Sanders — Head of Finance and Operations (source)
• Penny Rist — Head of Care (Care Homes) (source)
• Louise Baker — Human Resources Manager (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Property (HM Land Registry)

6 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (3 freehold); recorded price paid £1.1m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: Crossways Community — Registered, 2 registered locations, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 16/12/2021.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/04/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~9.7 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (92% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Care Quality Commission ratings

CQC inspection ratings for services run by a provider matching this charity’s name (matched by name; verify provider identity on CQC’s site).

• Crossways Community: Good (13/11/2018) · CQC record

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (02/02/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Julia Kirkchair
• Amy May Perkins
• Caroline Elizabeth Ridge Davis
• Dr Nicole Ruth Averill
• Monique London · trustee of 1 other charity

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CROSSROADS CARING FOR CARERS WORCESTERSHIRE.

• CROSSROADS CARING FOR CARERS WORCESTERSHIRE income £342k
• DUDLEY CROSSROADS income £264k
• SURREY CROSSROADS income £3.9m
• CROSSROADS TRUST income £80k
• THE SANDWELL CROSSROADS CARE ATTENDANT SCHEME LIMITED income £1.8m
• CROSSROADS BRAINTREE AND CHELMSFORD LTD income £306k

Side by side with its peers

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