CROSSROADS WOMEN

Registered charity 1134495 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Based in Kentish Town, North West London, the charity runs the Crossroads Women's Centre, as a multi-racial community resource for low income women and their loved ones from different backgrounds and situations to access self-help, peer support, information services, and volunteering opportunities. The Centre is a base for women's groups, meetings, exhibitions, film shows, research & more.

Objects

4.1.1 ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC BY STUDY AND RESEARCH INTO RACE AND COMMUNITY RELATIONS (WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO WOMEN) AND BY THE PUBLICATION OF THE RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC;4.1.2 MAINTAIN AND RUN A CENTRE FOR USE BY WOMEN (WITHOUT DISTINCTION AS TO POLITICAL,RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS) AND WOMEN'S GROUPS AT WHICH MEETINGS, LECTURES ANDCLASSES AND OTHER FORMS OF RECREATION AND LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION MAY TAKE PLACE;4.1.3 ADVANCE SUCH OTHER PURPOSES AS MAY BE REGARDED AS CHARITABLE UNDER THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, LOCAL

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 · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Other Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Camden, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £3,515 for the year ended 31 December 2025, driven by rising costs despite a slight increase in income. The trustees confirmed that free reserves were maintained and considered the charity to have adequate resources to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by New Horizons Services Ltd. Discloses 4 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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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 31/12/2022 (received 01/11/2023, 1 day after the 31/10/2023 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07087291

Funders the charity credits

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

• The Big Lottery Fund — “Our funders The Big Lottery Fund” (source page)
• Eleanor Rathbone Charitable Trust — “Eleanor Rathbone Charitable Trust” (source page)
• Heritage Lottery Fund — “Heritage Lottery Fund” (source page)
• Roughly Trust (AW60 fund) — “Roughly Trust (AW60 fund)” (source page)

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.

• AMISS, Cristel — director, appointed 25/11/2009on trustee list
• BEGUE, Caroline — director, appointed 25/11/2009on trustee list
• FRANCIS, Solveig Marie — director, appointed 25/11/2009on trustee list
• GLASMAN, Claire Rachel — director, appointed 25/11/2009on trustee list
• JAMES, Selma — director, appointed 25/11/2009on trustee list
• FRANCIS, Solveig Marie — secretary, appointed 25/11/2009

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £630k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Trustees · trustee networks

• SELMA JAMESchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• CAROLINE BEGUE
• CLAIRE RACHEL GLASMAN
• CRISTEL AMISS · trustee of 1 other charity
• SOLVEIG FRANCIS · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout London

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 THE CROSSROADS PROJECT.

• THE CROSSROADS PROJECT income £98k
• CROSSROADS CARING FOR CARERS WORCESTERSHIRE income £342k
• CROSSROADS COUNSELLING income £47k
• CROSSROADS CARE KENT income £4.3m
• CROSSROADS (BARNSLEY) LTD income £898k
• CROSSROADS CARE NORTH WEST income £1.7m

Side by side with its peers

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