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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Latest income
£1.9m
Latest spending
£1.9m
Registered
2001
Accounts read
FY2025

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

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.

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)

Total income
£1.9m
Total spending
£1.9m
Reserves (reported)
£174k
Employees
72

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).

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Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Gloucestershire · Herefordshire

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£1.9m£1.9m
31/03/2024£1.7m£1.8m
31/03/2023£1.9m£2.0m
31/03/2022£2.6m£2.7m
31/03/2021£2.7m£2.7m

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.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
BARNWOOD TRUSTFY2024£150k

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund01/08/2024£20kActive Living
The National Lottery Community Fund07/10/2022£8kActive Living
The National Lottery Community Fund23/03/2020£8kCreating an inclusive community for the elderly and people with a disability

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Crossroads Caring For Life Ltd.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
FOREST OF DEAN CROSSROADS CARING FOR CARERS£1.9m——above—no doubt
Crossroads Caring For Life Ltd FY2025£2.0m—0above—no doubt
CROSSROADS BRAINTREE AND CHELMSFORD LTD FY2025£236k—0above—no doubt
CROSSROADS CARING FOR CARERS WORCESTERSHIRE FY2025£342k—0above—noted
Carers Trust Crossroads West Wales FY2025£3.1m—0above—no doubt
Crossroads Care Gloucestershire FY2025£1.3m£60,001 - £70,0001unclear—no doubt

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