FOREST OF DEAN CROSSROADS CARING FOR CARERS
Registered charity 1086841 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CROSSROADS CARE - FOREST OF DEAN & HEREFORDSHIRE, Crossroads Gloucestershire
Forest of Dean Crossroads provides respite breaks for Carers in the form of daycare services, social groups and community respite. We also work in partnership with Adult and Social Care Directorate by providing care workers to work in a day centre setting as well as in the community. We also support Carers and cared for who hold Direct Payments and those who pay for their support privately.
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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity held total reserves of £214,675, with free reserves of £174,095, which the trustees report exceeds their target threshold. The independent auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate and identified no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue operations.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Largest income source: Charitable activities (98% of income)
“Charitable activities 5 1,613,141 272,153 1,885,294” — page 12
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: CEO advance
“The CEO made a short-term advance of £23,000 in January 2025 for working capital support at a time of a delay in funder payment. The advance, which was unsecured and incurred no interest charge, was paid off in full in March 2025. No liability existed at year-end.” — page 25
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts audited by BK Plus Audit Limited. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.
Corporate structure
Leadership, per the charity’s website
- Deborah Vaughan — Chief Executive (source)
- Kaye Williams — Company Secretary/DPO & PA to the CEO (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.
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.
- BLAKE, Elizabeth — director, appointed 31/10/2025on trustee list
- JONES, Andrew Robert — director, appointed 05/09/2025on trustee list
- EASTON, Joanna Elizabeth, Dr — director, appointed 05/09/2025on trustee list
- EVANS, Nicholas Michael — director, appointed 01/08/2023on trustee list
- DE CARTERET, Pierre — director, appointed 22/08/2022not on trustee list
- WILLIAMS, Patrick Alan — director, appointed 01/10/2021on trustee list
- MARRIOTT, Janet Daphne — director, appointed 01/12/2020not on trustee list
- WILLIAMS, Kaye — secretary, appointed 30/04/2019
Official officers record.
CQC provider record: Forest Of Dean Crossroads-Caring For Carers — Registered, 2 registered locations, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 14/06/2019.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record
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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)
Reported reserves equal ~1.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (98% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).
Care Quality Commission ratings
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- Crossroads Care - Forest of Dean and Herefordshire: Good (17/08/2019) · CQC record
- Pierre De Carteretchair
- Andrew Robert Jones
- Deborah Vaughan
- Elizabeth Blake
- Jan Marriott · trustee of 1 other charity
- Joanna Elizabeth Easton · trustee of 1 other charity
- Nicholas Michael Evans
- Patrick Williams
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Gloucestershire · Herefordshire
Income and spending
Common questions
Is FOREST OF DEAN CROSSROADS CARING FOR CARERS financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity held total reserves of £214,675, with free reserves of £174,095, which the trustees report exceeds their target threshold. The independent auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate and identified no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue operations. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by BK Plus Audit Limited.
Who funds FOREST OF DEAN CROSSROADS CARING FOR CARERS?
Funders whose own accounts filings name FOREST OF DEAN CROSSROADS CARING FOR CARERS as a grant recipient include BARNWOOD TRUST.
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