BIRMINGHAM CRISIS CENTRE

Registered charity 700138 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Charity offers a safe haven by way of the provision of temporary refuge and support to women and children who are the victims of domestic violence.

Objects

The objects for which the Association is established are the relief of poverty and the relief of mental and physical distress amongst women who have been maltreated by their husbands, partners, or the men, women or person with whom they are living and among children of such women by the provision of hostel accommodation and by other means as shall further the said objects.

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: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Birmingham, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £48,572 for the year, driven by inflation increasing costs while income remained stable. The trustees note that current funding did not fully cover operating costs, though the charity holds total reserves of £1,328,968 and has secured a new two-year funding contract from Birmingham City Council to alleviate immediate uncertainty.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by JW Hinks LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). 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
• 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
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Birmingham Crisis Centre (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Warwickshire Freemasons — “We would like to send a massive Thank You to Andy and everyone at Warwickshire Freemasons for their recent donation of £3,500 towards our c…” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~14.6 months of spending — in the top quarter 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: 6.0% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/12/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Barbara Wood
• Carolyn Joy Ankorn
• Dr ANDREW HARDIE · trustee of 4 other charities
• Dr Chandrani Ghosh
• Dr Desmond Jaddoo MBE · trustee of 2 other charities
• John Winfield
• Kejda Sula
• Kenneth William Wood
• Lucy Bloom
• MATTHEW HOOPER
• Susan Rosemary Broughton

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

Operates in: Birmingham City

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BIRMINGHAM LGBT.

• BIRMINGHAM LGBT income £825k
• BROMLEY AND CROYDON WOMEN'S AID income £2.7m
• MONTGOMERYSHIRE FAMILY CRISIS CENTRE income £965k
• SAFER PLACES income £4.4m
• CAMBRIDGE WOMEN'S AID income £605k
• ANAWIM - BIRMINGHAM’S CENTRE FOR WOMEN LIMITED income £2.2m

Side by side with its peers

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