RIBBLE VALLEY CROSSROADS CARE

Registered charity 1179014 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Respite Breaks to Carers in their own homes. We employ care support workers to carry out these duties in the Ribble Valley and surrounding area

Objects

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, TO RELIEVE THE STRESSES EXPERIENCED BY CARERS, FAMILY MEMBERS AND PEOPLE LIVING WITH PHYSICAL,MENTAL OR SENSORY IMPAIRMENT PRIMARILY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY OFFERING ADOMESTIC AND COMMUNITY RESPITE SERVICE WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT. THE AREA OF BENEFIT BEING THE BOROUGH OF RIBBLE VALLEY AND SURROUNDING DISTRICTS.

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 · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an operational deficit of just over £30,000 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in a net decrease in total funds. Despite this loss, the trustees consider unrestricted reserves of £205,567 to be sufficient to see the organisation through short-term difficulties, although they note that vigilance is needed to ensure the financial situation is not compromised by further losses.

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.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management 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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Crossroads Care Ribble Valley (matched by registered charity number).

CQC provider record: Ribble Valley Crossroads Care — Registered, 1 registered location, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 03/12/2023.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (91% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Care Quality Commission ratings

CQC inspection ratings for services run by a provider matching this charity’s name (matched by name; verify provider identity on CQC’s site).

• Ribble Valley Crossroads Care: Good (30/01/2024) · CQC record

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (30/03/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Grace Ormiston Brown Horechair
• ANN MARIE ROBERTS
• Anya Wallace
• DR MICHAEL MCDONALD SMITH
• David Bleazard · trustee of 1 other charity
• Glenys Mary Gallagher
• IAN ROBERT JOYCE
• Jane Elizabeth Spurgeon
• MICHAEL TOWNEND · trustee of 1 other charity
• Olivia Assheton
• SIMON O'ROURKE · trustee of 2 other charities
• William Henry Slinger

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

Operates in: Lancashire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CROSSROADS CARING FOR CARERS WORCESTERSHIRE.

• CROSSROADS CARING FOR CARERS WORCESTERSHIRE income £342k
• CROSSROADS BRAINTREE AND CHELMSFORD LTD income £236k
• CROSSROADS TENDRING & COLCHESTER LTD income £781k
• EAST MIDLANDS CROSSROADS-CARING FOR CARERS income £12.3m
• SURREY CROSSROADS income £3.9m
• CARERS' SUPPORT (BEXLEY) income £635k

Side by side with its peers

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