CROSSROADS TENDRING & COLCHESTER LTD

Registered charity 1103860 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CROSSROADS CARE TENDRING & COLCHESTER, TENDRING CROSSROADS SCHEME, TENDRING LTD CROSSROADS- CARING FOR CARERS

Respite breaks for carers

Objects

TO RELIEVE THE STRESSES EXPERIENCED BY CARERS, AND CHILDREN AND ADULTS WHO HAVE CARE NEEDS, AS A RESULT OF DISABILITY, ILLNESS OR AGE BY OFFERING A RESPITE SERVICE THROUGH THE PROVISION OF COMMUNITY-BASED SUPPORT WORKERS.

Area of benefit: TENDRING, ESSEX

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 · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Tendring, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net loss of £40,350 for the year ended 31 March 2026, driven by resources expended exceeding incoming resources. Despite this loss, the charity maintained a net asset position of £369,092, with unrestricted funds of £366,229, and the trustees report that the organisation remained financially resilient with no disruption to service delivery.

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 4 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• Volunteer management

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05019338

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.

• HONEY, Paul Derek — director, appointed 16/09/2025on trustee list
• WILSON, James Robert — director, appointed 21/02/2023on trustee list
• STOKER, Noreen Maria — director, appointed 16/01/2018on trustee list
• BENNETT, Tracey Anne — secretary, appointed 16/08/2023

Official officers record.

CQC provider record: Crossroads Care Tendring & Colchester — Registered, 1 registered location, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 25/04/2019.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~1.3 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (30/03/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Cannon Edward Beavan
• Darren Wardle Mr
• James Wilson
• Noreen Stoker
• Paul Honey

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

Operates in: Essex

Income and spending

Common questions

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 CROSSROADS CARING FOR CARERS WORCESTERSHIRE.

• CROSSROADS CARING FOR CARERS WORCESTERSHIRE income £342k
• CROSSROADS IN EAST LANCASHIRE LIMITED income £633k
• Crossroads Care Gloucestershire income £1.3m
• COUNTRYSIDE ACCESS income £100k
• SURREY CROSSROADS income £3.9m
• CROSSROADS TRUST income £80k

Side by side with its peers

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