CROHN'S IN CHILDHOOD RESEARCH ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 278212 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as C I C R A, CICRA, CROHN'S DISEASE IN CHILDHOOD RESEARCH APPEAL, CROHN'S IN CHILDHOOD RESEARCH APPEAL · also registered in Scotland as SC040700 (OSCR)

The Crohn's in Childhood Research Association (CICRA) is dedicated to creating a wider awareness and understanding of Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis, particularly as it affects children and young adults, and offers support to all sufferers and their families. CICRA sponsors approved medical research aimed at finding more effective treatments and an eventual cure.

Objects

FOR THE RELEIF OF PERSONS SUFFERING FROM AND TO PROMOTE AND ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION IN AND RESEARCH INTO CROHN'S DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS.

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 · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Sutton, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £776,937, which significantly exceed its stated policy target of six months' operational expenses estimated at £140,000. The accounts state the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, with no material uncertainties identified by the independent examiner.

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: Financial Conduct Authority. 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
• 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
• Investment
• 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)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Crohn's In Childhood Research Association (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• GRAHAM LEEchair
• Ben Stapleford
• MARGARET LEE MBE
• Nicola Pitney-Hall
• PAUL COOPER
• Professor Nicholas Croft
• SIMON COLEMAN · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sarah Brown

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CHILDREN'S CHRONIC ARTHRITIS ASSOCIATION.

• CHILDREN'S CHRONIC ARTHRITIS ASSOCIATION income £61k
• CROHN'S & COLITIS UK income £8.1m
• THE CHILDREN'S HYPERINSULINISM CHARITY income £79k

Side by side with its peers

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