Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 10
  • Excess reserves: -3
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +10
Overall GiG Score: 19 ?

CRAWLEY OPEN HOUSE 

The objectives are the relief of poverty in the borough of Crawley by providing shelter, food, clothing, financial assistance, day care and advice to those in need of such relief.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • This charity has substantial assets and unrestricted reserves of £3,656,747 available, equivalent to 37 months of spending and so may not be able to utilise additional funding

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£1,610£1,180£430£77£3,670£3,65737.2256
31/03/22£2,128£1,171£956£35£3,240£3,22033200
31/03/21£1,589£1,086£503£32£2,284£2,26625240
31/03/20£1,365£1,108£257£36£1,780£1,76619.13050
31/03/19£1,311£1,049£262£31£1,523£1,4911730100
31/03/18*£1,177£1,071£106£30£1,261£1,22713.7320
31/03/17£1,191£983£208£6£1,155£1,15414.1310
31/03/16£985£892£94£1£947£94512.7290
31/03/15£914£889£25£9£853£85111.5280
31/03/14£920£879£41£11£828£81111.1290
31/03/13£949£843£106£12£787£73610.5330
31/03/12£1,073£998£75£16£682£6788.2380
31/03/11£1,034£931£103£7£606£5887.6380
31/03/10£947£913£34£9£503£4996.6380
31/03/09£929£863£66£5£470£4596.4380
31/03/08£788£839£-51£6£404£4045.8380
31/03/07£806£831£-25£4£455£4546.6380
31/03/06£629£611£18£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£616£529£87£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£579£506£73£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 4.9%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 6.5%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 7%
Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
Liabilities/Assets: 13%
Liabilities/Income: 35%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 100%
Reserves/Spending: 37.2 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 15 months
Quick Ratio: 4.2
Asset Split ?
Established: 29 years

www.crawleyopenhouse.co.uk

director@crawleyopenhouse.co.uk

01293521191

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Accommodation/Housing
GiG Classification
  • Services for homeless & excluded people & ex-offenders
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • West Sussex,
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
Who works here?
  • 25 employees
  • 6 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
National Lottery Community Fund£426,300
Sussex Community Foundation£51,401
The Linbury Trust£45,000
DCMS£41,853
Co-Operative Group£19,185
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Linbury Trust - Energy efficiency - Crawley Open House
£45,000 13/12/2023
A grant focused on efficiency towards installation of new solar panels.
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Crawley Open House
£10,000 17/11/2023
Funding was provided towards a dental project. .
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Crawley Open House
£3,798 21/10/2023
We have a relentless need of food for our hostel kitchen and the dozens of food parcels we make up every day for those in crisis. Funding would help with the fresh food we have to buy every week.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Crawley Open House
£3,937 22/10/2022
We aim to buy fresh food (such as milk, cheese, butter, bread and fruit/veg) weekly for our hostel kitchen and crisis food parcels service.
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Crawley Open House
£9,620 21/07/2022
Funding was provided for food for their hostel kitchen and towards emergency food parcels for six months.
Wates Foundation - Salary Contribution For The Fundraising & Relationships Manager - RWF May 2022
£7,000 19/05/2022
Contribution towards the salary of the first part-time Fundraising & Relationships Manager to proactively grow different income streams, in order to get us to a more robust and diversified ....more
Masonic Trust - MCF Matched Funding
£5,000 30/11/2021
Unrestricted matched funding in partnership with the local masonic province
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Crawley Open House
£5,752 23/10/2021
We would like to provide weekly English Language and Art classes to the homeless and nearly-homeless of the area.
National Lottery Community Fund - Number 11
£426,300 15/03/2021
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This project will create a day centre built around vocational and life-skills workshops and classes for people who are homeless and disadvantaged. This will improve a space that matters to the local ....more
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Crawley Open House
£5,698 24/10/2020
We will continue to provide emergency food parcels and utility top-ups to those who need them. Last year we helped over 1,500 people.
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£41,853 19/08/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Crawley Open House
£10,000 22/06/2020
Crawley Open House serve homeless and vulnerable people of West Sussex. They operate a 26 bed high-support hostel, a busy drop-in day centre open 365 days a year, three move-on properties and a ....more
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Crawley Open House
£1,781 27/04/2020
Crawley Open House have serve the homeless and vulnerable of West Sussex. They operate a 26 bed high-support hostel, a busy drop-in day centre open 365 days a year, 3 move-on properties and a ....more
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Crawley Open House
£3,400 20/04/2020
COVID19 : purchase IT equipment for a charity that works with homelessness in West Sussex
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Crawley Open House
£20,000 16/01/2020
36
Funding was provided for to enable the conversion of office space into eight new studio flats with a shared kitchen and lounge area.
Sussex Community Foundation - Grant to Crawley Open House
£35,700 27/02/2019
23
Funding was provided towards the staff costs for a resettlement Outreach worker
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Crawley Open House
£10,380 19/11/2018
We want to set up a workshop to give skills in bike maintenance and furniture restoration to clients who are trying to find employment.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Crawley Open House
£3,095 04/08/2017
Our guest computers need replacing - they allow our clients to research housing options, apply for training & jobs and contact loved ones.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 8/9 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 44-73
  • SARA JANE HEALD Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Head Of Corporate Social Responsibility
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 09/09/1995, number: 1048919
  • Registered at Companies House on 21/04/1995, number: 03048461
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • 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
  • 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
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR18: 1 days late,
Main office

Riverside House
Three Bridges
Crawley
West Sussex
RH10 1TN

Objectives

The relief of poverty in the Borough of Crawley by providing shelter, hostel and move-on accommodation, charitable social housing, food, clothing, financial assistance, day care and advice to those in need of such relief.

Defined Area of Benefit:

CRAWLEY

Data Sources

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