CRISIS UK

Registered charity 1082947 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · 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.

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

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.

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 3.8%) (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

Common questions

Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

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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.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CRISIS AID.

• CRISIS AID income £1.2m
• CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY RELIEF, ASSISTANCE AND SUPPORT FOR THE HOMELESS AND HOSPICES LIMITED income £1.5m
• BIRMINGHAM CRISIS CENTRE income £877k
• LIFESHARE LIMITED income £506k
• TEEN CRISIS UK income £119k
• LEEDS SURVIVOR LED CRISIS SERVICES income £2.8m

Side by side with its peers

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