CROPS

Registered charity 1157651 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Advance the Christian faith for the public benefit in schools and churches in the Peterborough and surrounding areas. The charity also trades as "The Crops Trust".

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN SCHOOLS AND CHURCHES IN PETERBOROUGH AND THE SURROUNDING AREA

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 FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure for the year, reducing its total net assets from £26,340 to £22,580. The trustees acknowledge the charity's financial health requires sustained backing and note that current free reserves are slightly below their policy target. Despite this, the charity remains operational with unrestricted cash reserves of £22,745.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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
• 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
• 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

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (15/06/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Joanne Darters
• Jonathan Mark Wilson
• Matthew Forsyth · trustee of 1 other charity
• NIGEL JOHN BURROUGHS
• NIGEL LESLIE TAYLOR
• STEPHEN JOHN WARBURTON · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire · Northamptonshire · Peterborough City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Friends of Croftlands Junior, Infant and Nursery School.

• Friends of Croftlands Junior, Infant and Nursery School income £111k
• THE C3 CHURCH income £2.4m
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST PAUL CROFTON, ORPINGTON income £387k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD, CROOKHORN income £136k
• REGIONS BEYOND UK income £353k
• CRAWLEY COMMUNITY CHURCH income £315k

Side by side with its peers

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