CREATIVE CRAWLEY

Registered charity 1195308 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Creative Crawley champions Crawley, West Sussex and the surrounding area, as a creative place and makes positive social change through artistic collaboration, innovation, and co-creation. Our vision is for Crawley and its people to be fulfilled and thrive through creativity in particular, but not exclusively, by the provision of public performances, exhibitions, installations and workshops.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF ARTS AND CULTURE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN CRAWLEY, WEST SUSSEX AND THE SURROUNDING AREA, IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE PROVISION OF PUBLIC PERFORMANCES, EXHIBITIONS, INSTALLATIONS, AND WORKSHOPS.

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

Causes: Education/training · Disability · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Crawley, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds increased to £37,194, while restricted funds stood at £214,109, resulting in total net assets of £251,303. The charity reported a net income of £74,503 for the year, supported by significant grant funding from bodies such as Arts Council England and Crawley Borough Council. The trustees confirmed the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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 4 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
• 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

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Creative Crawley founder leaves after seven years for major new Worthing role sussexexpress.co.uk · 15/10/2026

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (92% 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: 0.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• lorraine Lecourtoischair · trustee of 2 other charities
• ADAM JOOLIA
• Joanne Elizabeth Folwell
• Sophie Helena Thacker
• Toby Shaw
• Vanessa Dell · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: West Sussex

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with KEIGHLEY CREATIVE.

• KEIGHLEY CREATIVE income £276k
• Creative Oundle income £114k
• CRAWLEY YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTRE income £96k
• ARTS AND CRAFTS COMMUNITY CENTRE income £40k
• CREATIVE CONNECTED COMMUNITIES income £115k
• Crawley Community Action income £658k

Side by side with its peers

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