CRISIS UK

Registered charity 1082947 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q5185945 · Wikipedia · also known as CRISIS · also registered in Scotland as SC040094 (OSCR)

Crisis is the national charity for single homeless people. We are dedicated to ending homelessness by delivering life-changing services and campaigning for change.Our innovative education, employment, housing and well-being services address individual needs and help people to transform their lives.

Objects

4. OBJECTS4.1 The only objects for which the Charity is established are for the public benefit to:4.1.1 Relieve people who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless including through:(a) the provision and evaluation of services to such people which directly or indirectly prevent, relieve, reduce or end their homelessness in a sustainable way; and(b) undertaking, publishing and promoting research relating to homelessness and associated matters.4.1.2 Advance any other ancillary charitable purpose in such way as the trustees in their absolute discretion think fit(“the Objects”).4.2 Nothing in the articles shall authorise an application of the property of the Charity for purposes which are not charitable in accordance with section 7 of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 or section 2 of the Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008.

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 Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Tower Hamlets, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £1.0m for the year ended 30 June 2025, with total income of £67.2m and total expenditure of £68.2m. Per the trustees' report, free reserves were maintained at £12.5m, which is within the stated policy target range of £10-£12m, although the charity forecasts a deficit in the following year due to a restructuring programme.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by BDO LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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.

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Matt Downie — Chief Executive (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 (96,732 likes) · instagram (59K followers)

Advertised salaries (public job ads)

Roles this charity has advertised on CharityJob, matched on the exact employer name. A different source from the statutory pay bands above: these are asking salaries for vacancies, not what anyone was paid.

• Shop Supervisor — £31,831 per year · NW1 7AA (On-site) · posted 1 week ago (seen 26/08/2026)

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.2 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 29.6% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (17/09/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (05/06/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (23/03/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (16/05/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (12/09/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (19/06/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alastair John Wilson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Alison Wallace
• Charlotte Bates
• Ezechi Britton
• Geeta Nanda
• Janet Oldfield
• Joanna Penn
• Kathleen Palmer · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kirsty Joan MacDonald · trustee of 1 other charity
• Matthew Sanders
• Sapna Dutta
• Sem Moema
• Tristia Harrison
• Waqar Ahmed

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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 CRISIS AID.

• CRISIS AID income £1.2m
• CHARIS (CHRISTIAN HELP & ACTION FOR REFUGEES IN SOMERSET) income £711k
• SUICIDE CRISIS income £12k
• REFUGEASE income £289k
• HOMELESS ACTION income £3.8m
• CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY RELIEF, ASSISTANCE AND SUPPORT FOR THE HOMELESS AND HOSPICES LIMITED income £1.5m

Side by side with its peers

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