CRIBS INTERNATIONAL LTD

Registered charity 1173021 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CRIBS INTERNATIONAL

To provide funding for accommodation, medical support, food aid, breastfeeding support and other necessities to refugee and asylum seeker women who are pregnant or who have babies under 12 months old. We aim to promote health, wellbeing and relief of poverty by providing accommodation for the women with their children, partners and other family members.

Objects

TO PROVIDE FUNDING FOR ACCOMMODATION, MEDICAL SUPPORT, FOOD AID, BREASTFEEDING SUPPORT AND OTHER NECESSITIES TO PERINATAL REFUGEE AND ASYLUM SEEKER WOMEN. WE AIM TO PROMOTE HEALTH, WELLBEING AND RELIEF OF POVERTY BY PROVIDING ACCOMMODATION FOR THE WOMEN WITH THEIR CHILDREN, PARTNERS AND OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS.

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Accommodation/housing · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Oldham, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net loss of £12,015 for the ten-month period, reducing its total reserves to £18,509. This figure is below the trustees' stated policy target of three to six months of monthly expenditure, with free reserves standing at £9,404. Despite the loss, the trustees consider there to be no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability 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 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 policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• 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.

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 28/02/2025 (received 13/02/2026, 47 days after the 28/12/2025 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 10644387

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — CRIBS (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.

• BRADY, Elliot — director, appointed 16/03/2023on trustee list
• LONERGAN, Gwyneth Laurette Helen — director, appointed 30/11/2022on trustee list
• LUZMORE, Natalie Jane — director, appointed 28/02/2021on trustee list
• CAIRNS, Ian Frederick — director, appointed 21/02/2018on trustee list
• HYMAN, Sally Elizabeth — director, appointed 28/02/2017on trustee list
• CAIRNS, Ian Frederick — secretary, appointed 10/04/2018

Official officers record.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Elliot Brady
• Gwyneth Laurette Helen Lonergan
• IAN FREDERICK CAIRNS
• Madeline Marie Schieber
• Natalie Jane Luzmore
• Sally Elizabeth Hyman

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

Operates in: Greece

Income and spending

Common questions

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.

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HIBISCUS INITIATIVES LTD.

• HIBISCUS INITIATIVES LTD income £981k
• RIVERBANK TRUST income £272k
• PREGNANCY SICKNESS SUPPORT income £284k
• BROMLEY AND CROYDON WOMEN'S AID income £2.7m
• CHILD RIGHTS INTERNATIONAL NETWORK - CRIN income £642k
• CRISIS AID income £1.2m

Side by side with its peers

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