CROSSROADS DERBYSHIRE

Registered charity 1134679 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HIGH PEAK WOMEN'S AID

Crossroads Derbyshire offers refuge and community outreach services to adults and children living in the community across the High Peak and Derbyshire Dales who are at risk of domestic abuse. For more information visit our website : crossroadsderbyshire.org

Objects

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF WOMEN AND ANY CHILDREN THEY MAY HAVE, WHO HAVE BEEN OR ARE EXPERIENCING DOMESTIC ABUSE OR ARE AT RISK OF DOING SO, AND WHO ARE LIVING OR HAVE SOUGHT REFUGE WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT; AND IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION OF SAFE HOUSING AND OUTREACH SUPPORT; AND TO ASSIST MEN WHO HAVE SUFFERED SIMILARLY, OFFERING OUTREACH SUPPORT WHERE APPROPRIATE.

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 · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: High Peak, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £14,151 for the year, spending down reserves generated during the pandemic to cover the shortfall. The trustees are confident that the charity will return to surplus and sustain services, noting that sufficient multi-year grants are in place to secure operations for the next 1-2 years without further reliance on reserves.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Godfrey Wilson Limited. 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
• 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.

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

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold); recorded price paid £374k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

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

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

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (50% 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: 4.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (13/04/2011) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Abeer Omer
• ELAINE MCDONALD · trustee of 1 other charity
• John Anthony Pasiecznik
• Karen Mitchell
• Lisa Morris
• MICHELLE LOUISE SIMPSON
• Rebecca Gibbons

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

Operates in: Derbyshire

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with DERBYSHIRE REFUGEE SOLIDARITY.

• DERBYSHIRE REFUGEE SOLIDARITY income £65k
• OXFORDSHIRE CROSSROADS income £2.1m
• FAMILY SUPPORT DERBYSHIRE income £139k
• THE CROSSING POINT income £26k
• CROSSROADS CARING FOR CARERS WORCESTERSHIRE income £342k
• SURREY CROSSROADS income £3.9m

Side by side with its peers

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