CRAWLEY COMMUNITY CHURCH

Registered charity 1174869 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To advance the Christian religion and to carry out other charitable works. We continue to carry out activities, local and further afield, in order to achieve these activities we have weekly meetings of Christian Worship & Teaching, weekly events for Youth and Children, Support for missionary bodies locally and internationally along with charitable support to humanitarian crises on an ad hoc basis

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Latest income

£315k

Latest spending

£296k

Registered

2017

Accounts read

FY2024

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £518,141, which is above the stated policy target of approximately £40,000. The charity reported a net income increase of £18,858 for the year, supported by total income of £315,332 against charitable expenditure of £296,473.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: three months of essential operating expenditure (held: £518k)

“The Church’s Reserves Policy is to retain approximately 3 months of essential operating expenditure, which would be approximately £40,000.” — page 6

Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

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Register events

Received assets from another charity (04/10/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
Received assets from another charity (09/10/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

Christina Victoria Margaret Revelle
Christine Willows
David Swann

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

Operates in: West Sussex

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2024	£315k	£296k
31/12/2023	£340k	£275k
31/12/2022	£234k	£247k
31/12/2021	£174k	£233k
31/12/2020	£301k	£355k

Common questions

Is CRAWLEY COMMUNITY CHURCH financially healthy?

Per its FY2024 accounts: The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £518,141, which is above the stated policy target of approximately £40,000. The charity reported a net income increase of £18,858 for the year, supported by total income of £315,332 against charitable expenditure of £296,473. Its FY2024 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds CRAWLEY COMMUNITY CHURCH?

Funders whose own accounts filings name CRAWLEY COMMUNITY CHURCH as a grant recipient include NEW GROUND CHURCHES.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
NEW GROUND CHURCHES	FY2025	£14k	Apostolic ministry and extension
NEW GROUND CHURCHES	FY2024	£14k	Apostolic ministry
NEW GROUND CHURCHES	FY2023	£11k	Apostolic ministry
NEW GROUND CHURCHES	FY2022	£11k	Apostolic ministry
NEW GROUND CHURCHES	FY2021	£11k	Apostolic ministry

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
SANTANDER UK FOUNDATION LIMITED	1	£124k
THE FYRISH FOUNDATION	1	£14k
THE HOBSON CHARITY LIMITED	1	£5k
THE COLE CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£2k
BASINGSTOKE COMMUNITY CHURCHES	1	£0

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST CRAWLEY.

PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST CRAWLEY income £686k
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF SOUTH CRAWLEY income £217k
ARK COMMUNITY CHURCH SUTTON COLDFIELD income £203k
WESTBOURNE GROVE CHURCH income £459k
THE C3 CHURCH income £2.4m
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST PETER, FULHAM income £420k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
CRAWLEY COMMUNITY CHURCH	£315k	—	above	—	no doubt
PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST CRAWLEY FY2024	£686k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF SOUTH CRAWLEY FY2024	£217k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
ARK COMMUNITY CHURCH SUTTON COLDFIELD FY2025	£203k	£41,688	unclear	—	no doubt
WESTBOURNE GROVE CHURCH FY2025	£459k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE C3 CHURCH FY2024	£2.4m	—	unclear	—	no doubt

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.