Registered charity · West Sussex
Crawley Open House
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.
- 8 trustees
- Income £2.1m (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- Accommodation/housing
- Where
- West Sussex
- Website
- www.crawleyopenhouse.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Crawley Open House
- Registered
- 1995
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£2.1m£1.7m
- 2024£2.4m£1.6m
- 2023£1.6m£1.2m
Earlier years
- 2022£2.1m£1.2m
- 2021£1.6m£1.1m
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 27%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
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.
Grants received
14 grants · £1,043,563 total360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.
Top funders
- The National Lottery Community Fund · £797,209 (2 grants)
- Sussex Community Foundation · £87,101 (6 grants)
- The Linbury Trust · £69,000 (2 grants)
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £41,853
- The Clothworkers Foundation · £40,000
Most recent
- The National Lottery Community Fund
Board analysis
Board DNA
How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.
8 trustees on the board
- Balvinder Kaur Ahluwalia since 2021
- Daryl Gayler since 2022
- Henrietta Bennett since 2021
- James Abdool since 2013
- John Spencer Bowen since 2025
- Michael Bolton
- Paul Roe since 2023
- Sara Jane Heald since 2021
Trustees past 6 years
- James Abdool since 2013
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (7)
- Balvinder Kaur Ahluwalia since 2021
- Henrietta Bennett since 2021
- James Abdool since 2013
- John Spencer Bowen since 2025
- Michael Bolton
- Paul Roe since 2023
- Sara Jane Heald since 2021
Portfolio (1)
- Daryl Gayler since 2022
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
5.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1048919
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 21/04/1995AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 15/03/2011 as amended on 13 Apr 2021
- Companies House
- Company number 03048461 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 01293521191 · Charlie.arratoon@crawleyopenhouse.co.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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