Cruse Bereavement Support

Registered charity 208078 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q5190174 · Wikipedia · also known as CRUSE BEREAVEMENT CARE, CRUSE BEREAVEMENT CARE LIMITED, CRUSE CLUBS LIMITED

THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT TO PEOPLE WHO HAVE SUFFERED BEREAVEMENT THROUGH A NATIONWIDE NETWORK OF TRAINED BEREAVEMENT VOLUNTEERS AND THROUGH ITS NATIONAL HELPLINE.WORK DESIGNED TO RAISE THE AWARENESS OF THE NEEDS OF BEREAVED PEOPLE AND TO PROMOTE THEIR INTERESTS.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF ANY PERSONS WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF POVERTY SICKNESS OR DISTRESS ARISING FROM BEREAVEMENT BY DEATH OF A PERSON OR THE ANTICIPATION THEREOF AND THE PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION OF PUBLIC HEALTH PARTICULARLY THROUGH THE PREVENTION OF ANY SICKNESS WHICH MAY ARISE FROM BEREAVEMENT BY DEATH OF A PERSON OR THE ANTICIPATION THEREOF.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Richmond upon Thames, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a surplus of £309k for the year ended 31 March 2026, resulting in unrestricted reserves of £670k and free reserves of £290k. The trustees report that current free reserves fall short of the stated policy target of three to six months' committed expenditure, but affirm that there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. 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
• 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
• Investing charity funds 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

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.

In the news

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

• Woking mum climbs Mount Kilimanjaro for Cruse Bereavement Support bbc.com · 15/10/2026
• Cruse Bereavement Support Isle of Man seeks new directors iomtoday.co.im · 14/08/2024
• Cruse Bereavement Support Isle of Man celebrates 35th anniversary with black-tie event iomtoday.co.im · 29/09/2023
• Orran Smith set to run 330km in Italian ultra-competition whilst raising money for Cruse Bereavement Support iomtoday.co.im · 22/08/2023
• National Friendly nominate Cruse Bereavement Support as their Charity of the Year bristol247.com · 22/06/2022

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00638709

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Cruse Bereavement Support (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.

• HILTON, Helen Ann — director, appointed 26/05/2026on trustee list
• MODHVADIA, Pritesh Kumar — director, appointed 26/05/2026on trustee list
• BOYD, David William — director, appointed 26/05/2026on trustee list
• CUNNINGHAM, Harley Melissa — director, appointed 26/05/2026on trustee list
• CAVELL, David George — director, appointed 14/08/2025on trustee list
• CHURCHILL, Neil Gareth, Dr — director, appointed 30/09/2024not on trustee list
• MOZZICARELLI, Kate Audrey — director, appointed 14/03/2024on trustee list
• ESHO, Mabinty — director, appointed 24/08/2023on trustee list
• ARMSTRONG, Juliet Claire — director, appointed 24/08/2023on trustee list
• PATEL, Vijay — director, appointed 15/06/2023on trustee list
• WEI, Lei — director, appointed 10/12/2020on trustee list
• WILSON, Karen Alison — secretary, appointed 14/12/2023

Official officers record.

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~1.3 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 17.1% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (29/10/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Neil Gareth Churchill OBEchair
• David George Cavell
• David William Boyd
• Harley Melissa Cunningham
• Helen Ann Hilton
• Juliet Claire Armstrong
• Kate Mozzicarelli
• Lei Wei · trustee of 3 other charities
• Pritesh Kumar Modhvadia
• Vijay Kumar Punjabhai Patel

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Throughout England And Wales

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.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

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.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BEREAVEMENT CARE.

• BEREAVEMENT CARE income £69k
• THE CROSS TRUST income £707k
• Child Bereavement UK income £2.7m
• SUPPORTIVE SRC LTD income £5.9m
• SURVIVORS OF BEREAVEMENT BY SUICIDE income £475k
• SUPPORT A SURVIVOR OF TORTURE income £263k

Side by side with its peers

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