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Registered charity · Surrey

Cruse Bereavement Support

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £6.4m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 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
Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Northern Ireland
Website
www.cruse.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Cruse Bereavement Support
Registered
1962

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£6.4m£6.4m
  • 2024£6.4m£8.0m
  • 2023£7.0m£8.9m
Earlier years
  • 2022£7.4m£8.0m
  • 2021£8.7m£6.6m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 11% · Government grants 6%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE RELIEF OF ANY PERSONS WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF POVERTY SICKNESS OR DISTRESS ARISING FROM BEREAVEMENT BY DEATH OF A PERSON OR THE ANTICIPATION THEREOF AND THE PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION OF PUBLIC HEALTH PARTICULARLY THROUGH THE PREVENTION OF ANY SICKNESS WHICH MAY ARISE FROM BEREAVEMENT BY DEATH OF A PERSON OR THE ANTICIPATION THEREOF.

Grants received

373 grants · £9,923,778 total

360Giving 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 · £5,676,277 (202 grants)
  • National Emergencies Trust · £897,570
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £463,637 (12 grants)
  • Home Office · £375,000 (3 grants)
  • Department for Culture, Media and Sport · £350,111

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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

1.8y median 2y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure
1
trustees past 6 years
5.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (1)

10
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 11The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 11Other Charitable Purposes 1

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

Health and social care 11Education 4Arts and leisure 1

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£6.4m latest income
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.

0.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 8.4 in 2021

161 from 186 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.
16%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
208078
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 05 OCT 1959AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 25 OCT 1967AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 13 MAY 1980AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 02 JUL 1987AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 16 APR 1991AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 22 MAR 2003AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 21 SEP 2009AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 19 NOV 2011AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 22 NOV 2014AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 03 DEC 2016 as amended on 08 Dec 2021
Companies House
Company number 00638709 · Active
Contact on the register
02039294598 · info@cruse.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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