FREE SHOP CRAWLEY

Charity Number: 1193224
Charity reporting is up to date (on time)

Charity overview

Activities - how the charity spends its money

Free Shop Crawley provides a choice of fresh food & vegetables, toiletries, baby clothes and other essential free of charge to struggling families in Crawley and the surrounding area who are either referred to Free Shop by an outside agency for example local council, home start, school/college or contact us direct.

Income and expenditure

Data for financial year ending 31 March 2024

Total income: £271,312
Total expenditure: £244,333

Total income includes £54,748 from 4 government grant(s)

People

4 Trustee(s)

150 Volunteer(s)

Employees with total benefits over £60,000

No employees have total benefits over £60k for this charity

Fundraising

No information available

Trading

This charity does not have any trading subsidiaries.

Trustee payments

No trustees receive any remuneration, payments or benefits from the charity.

What, who, how, where

What the charity does:
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who the charity helps:
  • The General Public/mankind
How the charity helps:
  • Provides Services
Where the charity operates:
  • West Sussex

Governance

Registration history:
  • 25 January 2021: CIO registration
Organisation type:
CIO
Other names:

No other names

Gift aid:
Not recognised by HMRC for gift aid
Other regulators:
No information available
Policies:
  • 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
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • 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
Land and property:
This charity does not own and/or lease land or property

Trustees

Trustees are the people responsible for controlling the work, management and administration of the charity on behalf of its beneficiaries. Generally trustees are treasurer, chair, board member etc. The trustees are responsible for keeping this list up to date and can do this by updating their details as they happen through the online service

4 Trustee(s)

Name Role Date of appointment Other trusteeships Reporting status of other trusteeships
Kirsti Godson Chair 17 November 2022
None on record
David Richard Walker Trustee 12 January 2023
None on record
Sally Johnson Trustee 10 October 2022
None on record
Ashley James Wright Trustee 25 March 2021
None on record

Financial history

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Financial period end date

Income / Expenditure 31/03/2022 31/03/2023 31/03/2024
Total gross income £110.69k £110.69k £271.31k
Total expenditure £71.22k £71.22k £244.33k
Income from government contracts N/A N/A N/A
Income from government grants £5.00k £16.60k £54.75k

Accounts and annual returns

This table shows the charity's record of submitting annual returns, accounts and trustees' annual report (TAR) for the last five financial periods.
Title Reporting year Date received Received Download
Annual return 31 March 2024 29 January 2025 On Time
Accounts and TAR 31 March 2024 29 January 2025 On Time Download Open in new window
Annual return 31 March 2023 09 May 2024 99 days late
Accounts and TAR 31 March 2023 09 May 2024 99 days late Download Open in new window
Annual return 31 March 2022 28 September 2022 On Time
Accounts and TAR 31 March 2022 28 September 2022 On Time Download Open in new window
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Governing document

Details of the type of governing document the charity has and when it was established.
It is not the full text of the charity's governing document.

CIO - ASSOCIATION Registered 25 Jan 2021

Charitable objects

THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AMONGST PEOPLE IN CRAWLEY AND THE SURROUNDING AREA IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME-TO-TIME THINK FIT, IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY, PROVIDING FOOD, ESSENTIAL TOILETRIES, CLOTHING AND HOUSEHOLD ITEMS TO INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES IN NEED.

Contact information

Address:
Bewbush Centre
Dorsten Square
CRAWLEY
West Sussex
RH11 8XW
Phone:
07861 907133
Email:
freeshopcrawley@gmail.com
Website:

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