CRIMESTOPPERS TRUST

Registered charity 1108687 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q5185506 · Wikipedia · also known as CRIMESTOPPERS · also registered in Scotland as SC037960 (OSCR)

The Charity promotes and supports the Crimestoppers scheme. The scheme offers the public a UK wide free telephone number - 0800 555 111 - which enables people who, for whatever reason are unwilling to make direct contact with the police, to provide useful information about crime, while remaining anonymous. From this information intelligence logs are prepared and passed to the police for action.

Objects

(A) THE ADVANCEMENT, PROMOTION AND PRESERVATION OF PUBLIC LAW AND ORDER.(B) THE ADVANCEMENT AND PROMOTION OF EFFICIENT POLICING.(C) THE PROMOTION AND ENCOURAGEMENT OF GOOD CITIZENSHIP AND GREATER PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN THE PREVENTION AND SOLUTION OF CRIME.(D)THE FURTHERANCE OF THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED.

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

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Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that free reserves of £3,841,050 are slightly below the Trustees' target range of £4.0m to £4.5m. The charity reported a surplus of £606,695 for the year, strengthening its net assets to £4,559,862. The Trustees are satisfied that the charity can continue as a going concern, citing committed Home Office funding and strong commercial partnerships.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Forvis Mazars LLP. Discloses 3 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
• 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
• 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
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05382856

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Crimestoppers (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• HEWITT, Martin James — director, appointed 19/07/2023on trustee list
• JACOB, Suzanne Elizabeth — director, appointed 27/04/2021not on trustee list
• HARRIS, Stewart Anthony — director, appointed 13/11/2019on trustee list
• GAZE, Peter Michael Reeder — director, appointed 18/07/2018on trustee list
• LAURIE, Michael Ivan — director, appointed 20/11/2013not on trustee list
• STEPHENSON, Paul Robert, Sir — director, appointed 02/11/2011not on trustee list
• GARDNER, Ceris Mary — director, appointed 17/11/2010on trustee list
• CHOUDREY, Zameer Mohammed, Lord — director, appointed 28/04/2009not on trustee list
• CLARKE, Peter John Michael — director, appointed 29/04/2008not on trustee list
• ENTWISTLE, Angela Elizabeth — director, appointed 08/03/2007on trustee list
• ROSS, Nicholas — director, appointed 06/09/2006not on trustee list
• GRIFFITHS CBE, BEM, QPM, William Ian — director, appointed 17/11/2005not on trustee list
• RUBIN OBE, Robert Stephen — director, appointed 18/05/2005not on trustee list
• ASHCROFT, Michael Anthony, Lord — director, appointed 04/03/2005on trustee list
• MANN, Stephen John — secretary, appointed 01/12/2021

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~6.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (58% 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: 6.7% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/02/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• LORD MICHAEL ASHCROFTchair
• ANGELA ELIZABETH ENTWISTLE
• CERIS MARY GARDNER · trustee of 2 other charities
• Lord ZAMEER MOHAMMED CHOUDREY CBE SI Pk · trustee of 1 other charity
• MICK LAURIE
• MR BILL GRIFFITHS CBE BEM QPM · trustee of 1 other charity
• MR NICK ROSS
• Martin James Hewitt
• PETER JOHN MICHAEL CLARKE CVO OBEQPM
• PETER MICHAEL REEDER GAZE
• ROBERT STEPHEN RUBIN OBE
• SIR PAUL STEPHENSON QPM
• Stewart Anthony Harris · trustee of 1 other charity
• Suzanne Jacob OBE

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

Operates in: Guernsey · Isle Of Man · Jersey · Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• Lord ZAMEER MOHAMMED CHOUDREY CBE SI Pk — trustee here and at THE BESTWAY FOUNDATION

Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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

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 VICTIM SUPPORT.

• VICTIM SUPPORT income £52.7m
• THE CYBER HELPLINE income £403k
• N O P A N I C income £90k
• CARE OF POLICE SURVIVORS income £757k
• Suicide Prevention UK income £485k
• THE CYBER TRUST income £27k

Side by side with its peers

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