CRAWLEY OPEN HOUSE

Registered charity 1048919 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The objectives are the relief of poverty in the borough of Crawley by providing shelter, food, clothing, financial assistance, day care and advice to those in need of such relief.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves of £760,747 are within the Trustees' target range of three to six months' projected core expenditure. The charity reported a net incoming resource of £446,897 for the year, supported by donations, grants, and charitable activities, while maintaining a high occupancy rate in its hostel services.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Richard Place Dobson Services Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03048461

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Crawley Open House (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Charlie Arratoon — Senior Management (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.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• QUINN, Louisa June Clare — director, appointed 19/05/2026not on trustee list
• BOWEN, John Spencer — director, appointed 21/01/2025on trustee list
• ROE, Paul Kevin — director, appointed 21/11/2023on trustee list
• GAYLER, Daryl — director, appointed 17/08/2021on trustee list
• BENNETT, Henrietta Mary — director, appointed 25/03/2021on trustee list
• AHLUWALIA, Balvinder Kaur — director, appointed 16/03/2021on trustee list
• HEALD, Sara Jane — director, appointed 16/03/2021on trustee list
• ABDOOL, James Christopher — director, appointed 19/03/2014on trustee list
• BOLTON, Michael John — director, appointed 17/11/2009on trustee list
• BOLTON, Michael John — secretary, appointed 20/09/2016

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

8 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (5 freehold); recorded price paid £1.5m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~5.4 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (48% 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: 5.6% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (09/11/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Balvinder Kaur Ahluwalia
• Daryl Gayler · trustee of 1 other charity
• Henrietta Bennett
• James Abdool
• John Spencer Bowen
• MICHAEL BOLTON
• Paul Roe
• Sara Jane Heald

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

Operates in: West Sussex

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Crawley Community Action.

• Crawley Community Action income £658k
• CRAWLEY COMMUNITY CHURCH income £315k
• CREATIVE CRAWLEY income £989k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF SOUTH CRAWLEY income £217k
• PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST CRAWLEY income £686k
• CRAWLEY ISLAMIC CENTRE AND MASJID income £453k

Side by side with its peers

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