Crawley Community Action

Registered charity 1094699 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CRAWLEY COMMUNITY & VOLUNTARY SERVICE, CRAWLEY COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE

Charity's Aims..........General Charitable Purposes.Education/TrainingDisabilityRelief of PovertyCharity Helps.........People with disability/Special needsOther CharitiesHow the Charity Operates........Provides human resource (eg staff/volunteers)Provides buildings/facilities/open spaceProvides advocacy/advice/informationActs as an umbrella or resource body

Objects

4. THE CHARITY?S OBJECTS (THE OBJECTS) ARE: 4(1) TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, PRINCIPALLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF CRAWLEY AND ITS ENVIRONS (HEREINAFTER CALLED THE AREA OF BENEFIT) AND, IN PARTICULAR, BUILD THE CAPACITY OF THIRD SECTOR ORGANISATIONS AND PROVIDE THEM WITH THE NECESSARY SUPPORT, INFORMATION AND SERVICES TO ENABLE THEM TO PURSUE OR CONTRIBUTE TO ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE. 4(2) TO PROMOTE, ORGANISE AND FACILITATE CO-OPERATION AND PARTNERSHIP WORKING BETWEEN THIRD SECTOR, STATUTORY AND OTHER RELEVANT BODIES IN THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE ABOVE PURPOSES WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT

Area of benefit: CRAWLEY AND ITS SURROUNDING AREAS AND THE COUNTY OF WEST SUSSEX

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Crawley, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves of £475,365 exceed the trustees' stated policy target of £281,250 - £343,750, indicating a strong financial buffer. The charity reported a net movement in funds of £82,939, driven by charitable activities and donations, while maintaining a going concern status with adequate resources for the foreseeable future.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 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
• 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)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public-sector contracts awarded

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

Reported reserves equal ~12.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (71% 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 (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• SUE BLOOMchair
• Ashwin Soni
• Catherine Mary Pedlow
• DAVID MURPHY · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Iyadh Daoud · trustee of 1 other charity
• JEREMY YEATS-EDWARDS
• PETER STEWART
• Paul Castle · trustee of 2 other charities
• Vivienne Gray

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

Operates in: West Sussex

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 EARLEY CRESCENT COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION.

• EARLEY CRESCENT COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £215k
• COMMUNITY EQUALITY DISABILITY ACTION income £1.7m
• CRAWLEY YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTRE income £96k
• NEW WORTLEY COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £573k
• ACTIVITEENS income £144k
• COMMUNITY CARE OPTIONS income £705k

Side by side with its peers

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