SMART CRIMINAL JUSTICE SERVICES

Registered charity 1069087 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SMART CJS SMART CRIMINAL JUSTICE SERVICES

To reduce the impact of substance misuse on the health, safety and social wellbeing of individuals and the wider community. We achieve this by identifying, assessing and engaging individuals through a variety of interventions and services that are geared to supporting the recovery journey. SMART CJS also provides services for the relief of rough sleeping and homelessness.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £57,747 for the year, a reduction from the previous year's deficit. Free reserves stood at £475,694, which exceeds the trustees' stated policy target of £320,000. The trustees and auditors confirmed that the charity has adequate resources to continue as a going concern with no material uncertainties.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by GH Audit Limited. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03398982

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.

• SMALE, Sarah Jane — director, appointed 13/11/2025on trustee list
• OTLEY, Thomas Richard Nettleton — director, appointed 13/11/2025on trustee list
• PAULL, Juliet Katharine — director, appointed 12/11/2025on trustee list
• CHISNALL, Karen Andrea — director, appointed 12/11/2025on trustee list
• BUHARIWALA, Heenal Kumari — director, appointed 11/11/2025on trustee list
• CROMBIE, David Fergus — director, appointed 01/11/2017on trustee list
• RITCHIE, Louise — secretary, appointed 14/05/2025

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: Smart Criminal Justice Services — Deregistered, 7 registered locations, last inspected 05/03/2019.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (94% 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: 0.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (01/06/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (23/02/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Fergus Crombie
• Heenal Kumari Buhariwala
• Juliet Katharine Paull
• Karen Andrea Chisnall
• Sarah Jane Smale
• Thomas Richard Nettleton Otley · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Bedford · Milton Keynes

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CHANGE, GROW, LIVE.

• CHANGE, GROW, LIVE income £339.7m
• ST. MARY ABBOTS REHABILITATION AND TRAINING PROJECTS (SMART) income £1.7m
• THE SOCIETY OF ST JAMES income £17.9m
• THE ALCOHOL AND DRUG SERVICE income £5.4m
• UK SMART RECOVERY income £586k
• BOSCO SOCIETY LTD income £1.1m

Side by side with its peers

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