CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY RELIEF, ASSISTANCE AND SUPPORT FOR THE HOMELESS AND HOSPICES LIMITED

Registered charity 1054107 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as C R A S H, CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY RELIEF AND ASSISTANCE FOR THE SINGLE HOMELESS LIMITED, CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY RELIEF, ASSISTANCE AND SUPPORT FOR THE HOMELESS LIMITED, CRASH

CRASH is a grant making charity, providing grants, pro bono professional expertise and materials to Homelessness Charities and Hospices to improve their buildings. CRASH acts as a facilitator, for companies in the construction industry to help homeless people and people with life limiting illnesses.

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Latest income

£1.5m

Latest spending

£1.4m

Registered

1996

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the financial year with a surplus of £117,183 and held unrestricted funds of £955,018. Per the trustees' report, free reserves equated to £955,018, representing a reserves level of 14.6 months against a policy target of up to 12 months. The charity reports strong cash flow with funds in hand of £1,232,869 and no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Highest-paid employee band: £70,001 - £80,000 — above the median for charities its size (£70k)

“One employee earned between £70,001 and £80,000 during the year” — page 29

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Employees paid over £60,000: 1

“One employee earned between £70,001 and £80,000 during the year” — page 29

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Reserves policy: up to 12 months of unrestricted expenditure excluding Gifts-In-Kind (held: £955k)

“The reserves policy has been reviewed during the year and the Trustees have agreed that free reserves should be sufficient to cover up to 12 months of unrestricted expenditure excluding Gifts-In-Kind based on the budgeted expenditure of the next financial year.”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Related-party transaction: Trustees employed by Patron companies.

“Seven Trustees are employed by Patron companies which each donated £9,500 per annum to the charity during the year” — page 32

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Buzzacott Audit LLP. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

Top pay band moved from £80,001 - £90,000 (FY2024) to £70,001 - £80,000 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Trisha Pickersgill — Chief Executive (source)
John O’Grady — Chairman (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.

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

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

Total income

£1.5m

Total spending

£1.4m

Cost of raising funds

£122k

Reserves (reported)

£955k

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~8.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (91% 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: 8.1% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

Received assets from another charity (20/04/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

Guy Norton
Ian James Bolster
Joanne Louise Smith
John O'Grady
Lewis Adam Philbey
Lucy Jean Aird Carraz
Matthew Grant Pullen
Nathan Modell

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£1.5m	£1.4m
31/03/2024	£1.2m	£1.2m
31/03/2023	£1.1m	£1.1m
31/03/2022	£871k	£751k
31/03/2021	£797k	£800k

Common questions

Is CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY RELIEF, ASSISTANCE AND SUPPORT FOR THE HOMELESS AND HOSPICES LIMITED financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity ended the financial year with a surplus of £117,183 and held unrestricted funds of £955,018. Per the trustees' report, free reserves equated to £955,018, representing a reserves level of 14.6 months against a policy target of up to 12 months. The charity reports strong cash flow with funds in hand of £1,232,869 and no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Buzzacott Audit LLP.

What does the highest-paid employee of CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY RELIEF, ASSISTANCE AND SUPPORT FOR THE HOMELESS AND HOSPICES LIMITED earn?

Per its FY2025 accounts, the highest-paid employee was in the £70,001 - £80,000 band, and 1 employees earned over £60,000.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
THE COOKS CHARITY	2	£30k
THE BRITFORD BRIDGE TRUST	2	£30k
WESTCOMBE FOUNDATION	2	£10k
WSH FOUNDATION	2	£7k
GOWLING WLG (UK) CHARITABLE TRUST	2	£3k
THE MILLENNIUM OAK TRUST	1	—
THE REED FOUNDATION	1	—
THE BERKELEY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	1	£1.2m

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LIGHTHOUSE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY CHARITY.

LIGHTHOUSE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY CHARITY income £5.0m
CRISIS UK income £67.2m
London Homelessness Foundation income £781k
RUSH HOUSE LTD income £1.3m
HOSPITALITY ACTION income £3.9m
CRANSLEY HOSPICE TRUST income £3.1m

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY RELIEF, ASSISTANCE AND SUPPORT FOR THE HOMELESS AND HOSPICES LIMITED	£1.5m	£70,001 - £80,000	1	above	—	no doubt
LIGHTHOUSE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY CHARITY FY2025	£5.0m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
CRISIS UK FY2025	£67.2m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
London Homelessness Foundation FY2025	£781k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
RUSH HOUSE LTD FY2025	£1.3m	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
HOSPITALITY ACTION FY2024	£3.9m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.