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Registered charity · Salford

Crescent Purchasing Limited

Crescent Purchasing Limited is a registered charity (number 1130461) based in Salford, governed by 11 trustees. Latest income £6.2m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £6.2m (2025)
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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.thecpc.ac.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Crescent Purchasing Limited
Registered
2009

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£6.2m£5.8m
  • 2024£6.0m£4.9m
  • 2023£5.2m£4.6m
Earlier years
  • 2022£4.7m£4.6m
  • 2021£3.9m£3.9m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

2 OBJECTS 2.1 THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AND SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED: A) TO PROMOTE THE EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF CHARITIES AND THE EFFECTIVE USE OF CHARITABLE RESOURCES BY: (I) PROVIDING SERVICES FOR FURTHER EDUCATION, HIGHER EDUCATION, SCHOOLS AND OTHER EDUCATIONAL BODIES TO PROMOTE GOOD PRACTICE AND ENHANCE AND IMPROVE THEIR PROCUREMENT ACTIVITIES; AND (II) ADVANCING EDUCATION AND RESEARCH IN PROCUREMENT PROVIDED THAT ALL THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH ARE PUBLISHED; (B) TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF LEARNERS IN FURTHER EDUCATION, HIGHER EDUCATION, SCHOOLS AND OTHER EDUCATIONAL BODIES, INCLUDING IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION) BY ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES AND THE FUNDING OF PROJECTS FOR EDUCATION IN THOSE BODIES.

Contracts awarded

5 contracts · £45,000,000 total

From Contracts Finder and Find a Tender (Open Government Licence v3.0), where this organisation is recorded as the buyer. Suppliers are matched to a Governance Register company or charity page at confidence 0.7 or higher; below that they are shown by name only.

Top suppliers

Most recent

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.

11 trustees on the board

2.7y median 2y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

5.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (11)

11
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 11

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Other services 12Professional services 10Education 4

Gaps to watch

  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

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.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£6.2m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

15.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 7.8 in 2021

86 from 66 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1130461
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 16/12/2008 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 16/06/2009 AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 01/09/2009 AS AMENDED ON 30 JANUARY 2025 as amended on 10 Dec 2025
Companies House
Company number 06774578 · Active
Contact on the register
07990763837 · d.owen@thecpc.ac.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
Labels
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