Crossways Community

Analysis

Crossways Community is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Tunbridge Wells. It was registered in January 1992, 34 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives, disability and accommodation/housing, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 02649197). It says it provides services.

In the financial year ending April 2025, Crossways Community reported income of £1.8m and spending of £1.9m, spending 107% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income fell from £3.0m to £1.8m (-40%), an average of -12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income dropped by 23%. Over the whole period it spent 92% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Crossways Community sits at the 93rd percentile: it is larger than about 92% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 96th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Child Brain Injury Trust (£1.8m), Koala North West (£1.8m) and Blackburn Rovers Community Trust (£1.8m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 92%, trading 4.4% and investments 2.4%. Gifts in wills alone brought in £2,000. Charitable activities took 98% of spending and raising funds 0.0%. Reserves of £1.5m would cover about 10 months of spending at that rate. It employed 44 people.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.