SHREWSBURY & OSWESTRY CRUCIAL CREW

Registered charity 1125144 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provides life skills training for up to 1560 year 6 pupils a year from approx.50 schools in the Shrewsbury and Oswestry area. Children of all abilities attend an annual event during the first two weeks in June. The appropriate specialists provide 13 scenarios which include; electrical safety, farm safety, gas safety, drugs and alcohol awareness, safety in and away from the home, etc.

Objects

TO ACT AS A RESOURCE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE LIVING IN THE SHREWSBURY AND OSWESTRY AREA OF SHROPSHIRE BY PROVIDING ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE AND ORGANISING PROGRAMMES OF PHYSICAL, EDUCATIONAL AND OTHER ACTIVITIES AS A MEANS OF;A) ADVANCING IN LIFE AND HELPING YOUNG PEOPLE BY DEVELOPING THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS INDEPENDENT, MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS, AND B) ADVANCING THEIR EDUCATION.

Area of benefit: SHROPSHIRE

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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Registered contact address: Shropshire, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity successfully delivered its annual event in June 2024, utilizing a paid venue at The Flaxmill due to the unavailability of its usual site. The organization has confirmed plans to return to The Flaxmill in 2025, indicating ongoing operational continuity.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

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
• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2021 (received 02/11/2022, 2 days after the 31/10/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Shropshire Welfare Trust — “A huge thank you to the following for supporting our successful 2026 event: Shropshire Welfare Trust” (source page)

Trustees · trustee networks

• IDRIS MAELOR OWENchair · trustee of 3 other charities
• Andrew Richard Hawkins
• BERNARD GEORGE ANDREW TOWNSON
• GRAHAM FRENCH
• Helen Rowlinson
• Ian David Finch
• MR GEOF PROFFITT
• MRS JAN OWEN
• Michael McQuade
• Peter Frank Bettis · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sqn Ldr John Feast

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

Operates in: Shropshire

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Known funders

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