DUDLEY CROSSROADS

Registered charity 1054168 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CROSSROADS CARE DUDLEY, DUDLEY CROSSROADS (CARING FOR CARERS)

By providing support workers to look after disabled individuals, we allow time for carers to "be themselves" to pursue leisure/educational/social time as they wish, knowing their "cared fors" are with responsible trained support. Our focus is principally on the carers of physically disabled individuals.We also offer a support service to elderly, isolated and vulnerable people in their own homes.

Objects

TO RELIEVE THE STRESSES EXPERIENCED BY CARERS AND BENEFICIARIES (ANY PERSON OR PEOPLE WHO HAVE CARE NEEDS AS A RESULT OF DISABILITY, ILLNESS OR AGE).

Area of benefit: IN PRACTICE METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF DUDLEY WEST MIDLANDS

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

Causes: Disability · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Dudley, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The charity reported a net expenditure of £11,365 for the year, reducing its unrestricted funds from £148,464 to £137,099. The trustees maintain a reserves policy target of 13 weeks of expenditure (£80,000), but actual free reserves stood at £57,099, which is below this target. Despite the deficit, the trustees confirmed the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence on a going concern basis.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 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
• Campaigns and political activity 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 14/03/2024, 43 days after the 31/01/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03172554

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Dudley Crossroads (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• PEARSALL, Georgia — director, appointed 25/04/2025on trustee list
• WALTHO, Jayne — director, appointed 25/04/2025on trustee list
• INGRAM, Beverly Mary — director, appointed 10/04/2022on trustee list
• HEAD, Janet — director, appointed 06/07/2018on trustee list
• MILLER, Ashley — director, appointed 30/10/2013on trustee list
• FRIESNER, Harry — director, appointed 21/05/2012on trustee list
• CARPENTER, Michael — director, appointed 14/03/1996on trustee list
• INGRAM, Beverly Mary — secretary, appointed 04/11/2022

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: Dudley Crossroads — Registered, 1 registered location, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 18/06/2019.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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).

• Dudley Crossroads: Good (11/07/2019) · CQC record

Trustees · trustee networks

• Janet Headchair
• Ashley Miller
• Beverly Mary Ingram
• Georgia Pearsall
• Harry Friesner
• Jayne Waltho · trustee of 1 other charity
• MICHAEL CARPENTER

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

Operates in: Dudley

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SURREY CROSSROADS.

• SURREY CROSSROADS income £3.9m
• ROTHERHAM CROSSROADS - CARING FOR CARERS income £2.3m
• BEXLEY CROSSROADS CARE LIMITED income £662k
• CROSSROADS CARING FOR CARERS WORCESTERSHIRE income £342k
• CROSSROADS BRAINTREE AND CHELMSFORD LTD income £306k
• CROSSWAYS COMMUNITY income £1.8m

Side by side with its peers

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