01 Identity
Registration and reporting
- Registration status
- Registered
- Reporting status
- Submission Received
- Charity type
- CIO
- Registered
- 20 December 2013
- Removed
- Not supplied
- Financial period
- 1 January 2025 – 31 December 2025
- Latest income
- £1,810,775
- Latest expenditure
- £2,238,857
- Gift Aid
- No
- Owns or uses land
- Yes
- In administration
- No
- Insolvent
- No
- CIO
- Yes
Public contact address: Lord Crewe's Charity, Cuthbert House, Stonebridge, DURHAM, DH1 3RY
Website recorded by the regulator: www.lordcrewescharity.org.uk (displayed as text)
02 Activities
What the charity does
The Charity operates for the benefit of necessitous Church of England clergy in the Dioceses of Durham and Newcastle, and for charitable purposes connected with Lincoln College Oxford. It also makes a number of small annual payments to organisations and for purposes set out in the will of the founder of 1721.
03 Official extract
Charity Annual Return History
- Fin Period Start Date
- 1 January 2025
- Fin Period End Date
- 31 December 2025
- Ar Cycle Reference
- AR25
- Reporting Due Date
- 31 October 2026
- Date Annual Return Received
- 2 October 2026
- Date Accounts Received
- 2 October 2026
- Total Gross Income
- £1,810,775
- Total Gross Expenditure
- £2,238,857
- Fin Period Start Date
- 1 January 2024
- Fin Period End Date
- 31 December 2024
- Ar Cycle Reference
- AR24
- Reporting Due Date
- 31 October 2025
- Date Annual Return Received
- 3 July 2025
- Date Accounts Received
- 3 July 2025
- Total Gross Income
- £1,841,574
- Total Gross Expenditure
- £2,261,409
- Fin Period Start Date
- 1 January 2023
- Fin Period End Date
- 31 December 2023
- Ar Cycle Reference
- AR23
- Reporting Due Date
- 31 October 2024
- Date Annual Return Received
- 30 May 2024
- Date Accounts Received
- 30 May 2024
- Total Gross Income
- £1,870,437
- Total Gross Expenditure
- £1,777,536
- Fin Period Start Date
- 1 January 2022
- Fin Period End Date
- 31 December 2022
- Ar Cycle Reference
- AR22
- Reporting Due Date
- 31 October 2023
- Date Annual Return Received
- 26 May 2023
- Date Accounts Received
- 26 May 2023
- Total Gross Income
- £1,671,304
- Total Gross Expenditure
- £2,943,535
- Fin Period Start Date
- 1 January 2021
- Fin Period End Date
- 31 December 2021
- Ar Cycle Reference
- AR21
- Reporting Due Date
- 31 October 2022
- Date Annual Return Received
- 6 June 2022
- Date Accounts Received
- 6 June 2022
- Total Gross Income
- £1,603,189
- Total Gross Expenditure
- £1,741,880
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Charity Annual Return Parta
- Latest Fin Period Submitted Ind
- Yes
- Fin Period Order Number
- 1
- Ar Cycle Reference
- AR25
- Fin Period Start Date
- 1 January 2025
- Fin Period End Date
- 31 December 2025
- Ar Due Date
- 31 October 2026
- Ar Received Date
- 2 October 2026
- Total Gross Income
- £1,810,775
- Total Gross Expenditure
- £2,238,857
- Grant Making Is Main Activity
- Yes
- Count Govt Contracts
- 0
- Count Govt Grants
- £0
- Charity Has Trading Subsidiary
- No
- Does Trustee Receive Any Benefit
- No
- Trustee Payments Acting As Trustee
- No
- Trustee Receives Payments Services
- No
- Trustee Receives Other Benefit
- No
- Trustee Resigned Employment
- No
- Employees Salary Over 60k
- No
- Count Volunteers
- 0
- Latest Fin Period Submitted Ind
- No
- Fin Period Order Number
- 2
- Ar Cycle Reference
- AR24
- Fin Period Start Date
- 1 January 2024
- Fin Period End Date
- 31 December 2024
- Ar Due Date
- 31 October 2025
- Ar Received Date
- 3 July 2025
- Total Gross Income
- £1,841,574
- Total Gross Expenditure
- £2,261,409
- Grant Making Is Main Activity
- Yes
- Count Govt Contracts
- 0
- Count Govt Grants
- £0
- Charity Has Trading Subsidiary
- No
- Does Trustee Receive Any Benefit
- No
- Trustee Payments Acting As Trustee
- No
- Trustee Receives Payments Services
- No
- Trustee Receives Other Benefit
- No
- Trustee Resigned Employment
- No
- Employees Salary Over 60k
- No
- Count Volunteers
- 0
- Latest Fin Period Submitted Ind
- No
- Fin Period Order Number
- 3
- Ar Cycle Reference
- AR23
- Fin Period Start Date
- 1 January 2023
- Fin Period End Date
- 31 December 2023
- Ar Due Date
- 31 October 2024
- Ar Received Date
- 30 May 2024
- Total Gross Income
- £1,870,437
- Total Gross Expenditure
- £1,777,536
- Grant Making Is Main Activity
- Yes
- Count Govt Contracts
- 0
- Count Govt Grants
- £0
- Charity Has Trading Subsidiary
- No
- Does Trustee Receive Any Benefit
- No
- Trustee Payments Acting As Trustee
- No
- Trustee Receives Payments Services
- No
- Trustee Receives Other Benefit
- No
- Trustee Resigned Employment
- No
- Employees Salary Over 60k
- No
- Count Volunteers
- 0
- Latest Fin Period Submitted Ind
- No
- Fin Period Order Number
- 4
- Ar Cycle Reference
- AR22
- Fin Period Start Date
- 1 January 2022
- Fin Period End Date
- 31 December 2022
- Ar Due Date
- 31 October 2023
- Ar Received Date
- 26 May 2023
- Total Gross Income
- £1,671,304
- Total Gross Expenditure
- £2,943,535
- Charity Raises Funds From Public
- No
- Grant Making Is Main Activity
- Yes
- Charity Receives Govt Funding Contracts
- No
- Charity Receives Govt Funding Grants
- No
- Charity Has Trading Subsidiary
- No
- Does Trustee Receive Any Benefit
- No
- Trustee Resigned Employment
- No
- Employees Salary Over 60k
- No
- Count Volunteers
- 0
- Latest Fin Period Submitted Ind
- No
- Fin Period Order Number
- 5
- Ar Cycle Reference
- AR21
- Fin Period Start Date
- 1 January 2021
- Fin Period End Date
- 31 December 2021
- Ar Due Date
- 31 October 2022
- Ar Received Date
- 6 June 2022
- Total Gross Income
- £1,603,189
- Total Gross Expenditure
- £1,741,880
- Charity Raises Funds From Public
- No
- Grant Making Is Main Activity
- Yes
- Charity Receives Govt Funding Contracts
- No
- Charity Receives Govt Funding Grants
- No
- Charity Has Trading Subsidiary
- No
- Does Trustee Receive Any Benefit
- No
- Trustee Resigned Employment
- No
- Employees Salary Over 60k
- No
- Count Volunteers
- 0
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Charity Annual Return Partb
- Latest Fin Period Submitted Ind
- Yes
- Fin Period Order Number
- 1
- Ar Cycle Reference
- AR25
- Fin Period Start Date
- 1 January 2025
- Fin Period End Date
- 31 December 2025
- Ar Due Date
- 31 October 2026
- Ar Received Date
- 2 October 2026
- Income Donations And Legacies
- 0
- Income Other Trading Activities
- 0
- Income Charitable Activities
- 0
- Income Investments
- 1763018
- Income Other
- 47757
- Income Total Income And Endowments
- 1810775
- Income Legacies
- 0
- Income Endowments
- 0
- Expenditure Raising Funds
- £1,233,017
- Expenditure Charitable Expenditure
- £1,005,840
- Expenditure Other
- 0
- Expenditure Total
- 2238857
- Expenditure Investment Management
- 1233017
- Expenditure Grants Institution
- 728097
- Expenditure Governance
- 21091
- Expenditure Support Costs
- 69930
- Expenditure Depreciation
- 0
- Gain Loss Investment
- 129249
- Gain Loss Pension Fund
- 0
- Gain Loss Revaluation Fixed Investment
- 8659454
- Gain Loss Other
- 0
- Reserves
- £4,486,037
- Assets Total Fixed
- 63703185
- Assets Own Use
- 9558805
- Assets Long Term Investment
- 54144380
- Defined Benefit Pension Scheme
- 0
- Assets Other Assets
- £1,394,804
- Assets Total Liabilities
- £285,028
- Assets Current Investment
- 0
- Assets Total Assets And Liabilities
- £64,812,961
- Creditors One Year Total Current
- 285028
- Creditors Falling Due After One Year
- 0
- Assets Cash
- £1,282,841
- Funds Endowment
- 60264511
- Funds Unrestricted
- 4486037
- Funds Restricted
- 62413
- Funds Total
- 64812961
- Count Employees
- 0
- Charity Only Accounts
- Yes
- Latest Fin Period Submitted Ind
- No
- Fin Period Order Number
- 2
- Ar Cycle Reference
- AR24
- Fin Period Start Date
- 1 January 2024
- Fin Period End Date
- 31 December 2024
- Ar Due Date
- 31 October 2025
- Ar Received Date
- 3 July 2025
- Income Donations And Legacies
- 0
- Income Other Trading Activities
- 0
- Income Charitable Activities
- 0
- Income Investments
- 1815105
- Income Other
- 26469
- Income Total Income And Endowments
- 1841574
- Income Legacies
- 0
- Income Endowments
- 0
- Expenditure Raising Funds
- £898,282
- Expenditure Charitable Expenditure
- £1,363,127
- Expenditure Other
- 0
- Expenditure Total
- 2261409
- Expenditure Investment Management
- 182459
- Expenditure Grants Institution
- 1056582
- Expenditure Governance
- 21295
- Expenditure Support Costs
- 68142
- Expenditure Depreciation
- 0
- Gain Loss Investment
- 976026
- Gain Loss Pension Fund
- 0
- Gain Loss Revaluation Fixed Investment
- 1491930
- Gain Loss Other
- 0
- Reserves
- £4,425,133
- Assets Total Fixed
- 55495031
- Assets Own Use
- 0
- Assets Long Term Investment
- 55495031
- Defined Benefit Pension Scheme
- 0
- Assets Other Assets
- £1,364,692
- Assets Total Liabilities
- £407,383
- Assets Current Investment
- 0
- Assets Total Assets And Liabilities
- £56,452,340
- Creditors One Year Total Current
- 407383
- Creditors Falling Due After One Year
- 0
- Assets Cash
- £1,320,859
- Funds Endowment
- 51964682
- Funds Unrestricted
- 4425133
- Funds Restricted
- 62525
- Funds Total
- 56452340
- Count Employees
- 0
- Charity Only Accounts
- Yes
- Latest Fin Period Submitted Ind
- No
- Fin Period Order Number
- 3
- Ar Cycle Reference
- AR23
- Fin Period Start Date
- 1 January 2023
- Fin Period End Date
- 31 December 2023
- Ar Due Date
- 31 October 2024
- Ar Received Date
- 30 May 2024
- Income Donations And Legacies
- 0
- Income Other Trading Activities
- 0
- Income Charitable Activities
- 0
- Income Investments
- 1841943
- Income Other
- 28494
- Income Total Income And Endowments
- 1870437
- Income Legacies
- 0
- Income Endowments
- 0
- Expenditure Raising Funds
- £719,887
- Expenditure Charitable Expenditure
- £1,057,649
- Expenditure Other
- 0
- Expenditure Total
- 1777536
- Expenditure Investment Management
- 719887
- Expenditure Grants Institution
- 685792
- Expenditure Governance
- 16718
- Expenditure Support Costs
- 88537
- Expenditure Depreciation
- 0
- Gain Loss Investment
- 56684
- Gain Loss Pension Fund
- 0
- Gain Loss Revaluation Fixed Investment
- 2311398
- Gain Loss Other
- 0
- Reserves
- £4,470,963
- Assets Total Fixed
- 53236516
- Assets Own Use
- 0
- Assets Long Term Investment
- 53236516
- Defined Benefit Pension Scheme
- 0
- Assets Other Assets
- £1,712,042
- Assets Total Liabilities
- £544,339
- Assets Current Investment
- 0
- Assets Total Assets And Liabilities
- £54,404,219
- Creditors One Year Total Current
- 544339
- Creditors Falling Due After One Year
- 0
- Assets Cash
- £1,654,034
- Funds Endowment
- 49876905
- Funds Unrestricted
- 4470963
- Funds Restricted
- 56351
- Funds Total
- 54404219
- Count Employees
- 0
- Charity Only Accounts
- Yes
- Latest Fin Period Submitted Ind
- No
- Fin Period Order Number
- 4
- Ar Cycle Reference
- AR22
- Fin Period Start Date
- 1 January 2022
- Fin Period End Date
- 31 December 2022
- Ar Due Date
- 31 October 2023
- Ar Received Date
- 26 May 2023
- Income Donations And Legacies
- 0
- Income Other Trading Activities
- 0
- Income Charitable Activities
- 0
- Income Investments
- 1662322
- Income Other
- 8982
- Income Total Income And Endowments
- 1671304
- Income Legacies
- 0
- Income Endowments
- 0
- Expenditure Raising Funds
- £590,838
- Expenditure Charitable Expenditure
- £2,352,697
- Expenditure Other
- 0
- Expenditure Total
- 2943535
- Expenditure Investment Management
- 590838
- Expenditure Grants Institution
- 1858278
- Expenditure Governance
- 20989
- Expenditure Support Costs
- 103776
- Expenditure Depreciation
- 0
- Gain Loss Investment
- 480510
- Gain Loss Pension Fund
- 0
- Gain Loss Revaluation Fixed Investment
- 0
- Gain Loss Other
- 0
- Reserves
- £4,343,209
- Assets Total Fixed
- 52209899
- Assets Own Use
- 0
- Assets Long Term Investment
- 52209899
- Defined Benefit Pension Scheme
- 0
- Assets Other Assets
- £729,457
- Assets Total Liabilities
- £996,120
- Assets Current Investment
- 0
- Assets Total Assets And Liabilities
- £51,943,236
- Creditors One Year Total Current
- 996120
- Creditors Falling Due After One Year
- 0
- Assets Cash
- £631,116
- Funds Endowment
- 47543685
- Funds Unrestricted
- 4343209
- Funds Restricted
- 56342
- Funds Total
- 51943236
- Count Employees
- 0
- Charity Only Accounts
- Yes
- Latest Fin Period Submitted Ind
- No
- Fin Period Order Number
- 5
- Ar Cycle Reference
- AR21
- Fin Period Start Date
- 1 January 2021
- Fin Period End Date
- 31 December 2021
- Ar Due Date
- 31 October 2022
- Ar Received Date
- 6 June 2022
- Income Donations And Legacies
- 0
- Income Other Trading Activities
- 0
- Income Charitable Activities
- 0
- Income Investments
- 1603189
- Income Other
- 0
- Income Total Income And Endowments
- 1603189
- Income Legacies
- 0
- Income Endowments
- 0
- Expenditure Raising Funds
- £741,142
- Expenditure Charitable Expenditure
- £1,000,738
- Expenditure Other
- 0
- Expenditure Total
- 1741880
- Expenditure Investment Management
- 741142
- Expenditure Grants Institution
- 26000
- Expenditure Governance
- 10228
- Expenditure Support Costs
- 87966
- Expenditure Depreciation
- 0
- Gain Loss Investment
- 1098621
- Gain Loss Pension Fund
- 0
- Gain Loss Revaluation Fixed Investment
- 4453347
- Gain Loss Other
- 0
- Reserves
- £6,755,028
- Assets Total Fixed
- 51484378
- Assets Own Use
- 0
- Assets Long Term Investment
- 51484378
- Defined Benefit Pension Scheme
- 0
- Assets Other Assets
- £1,564,371
- Assets Total Liabilities
- £313,792
- Assets Current Investment
- 0
- Assets Total Assets And Liabilities
- £52,734,957
- Creditors One Year Total Current
- 313792
- Creditors Falling Due After One Year
- 0
- Assets Cash
- £1,491,153
- Funds Endowment
- 45915249
- Funds Unrestricted
- 6755028
- Funds Restricted
- 64680
- Funds Total
- 52734957
- Count Employees
- 1
- Charity Only Accounts
- Yes
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Charity Area Of Operation
- Geographic Area Type
- Local Authority
- Geographic Area Description
- Durham
- Welsh Ind
- No
- Geographic Area Type
- Local Authority
- Geographic Area Description
- Northumberland
- Welsh Ind
- No
- Geographic Area Type
- Local Authority
- Geographic Area Description
- Newcastle Upon Tyne City
- Parent Geographic Area Type
- Metropolitan Counties
- Parent Geographic Area Description
- Tyne And Wear
- Welsh Ind
- No
- Geographic Area Type
- Local Authority
- Geographic Area Description
- Oxfordshire
- Welsh Ind
- No
07 Official extract
Charity Classification
- Classification Code
- 206
- Classification Type
- Who
- Classification Description
- Other Defined Groups
- Classification Code
- 102
- Classification Type
- What
- Classification Description
- Education/training
- Classification Code
- 105
- Classification Type
- What
- Classification Description
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
- Classification Code
- 301
- Classification Type
- How
- Classification Description
- Makes Grants To Individuals
- Classification Code
- 302
- Classification Type
- How
- Classification Description
- Makes Grants To Organisations
- Classification Code
- 108
- Classification Type
- What
- Classification Description
- Religious Activities
08 Official extract
Charity Event History
- Charity Name
- LORD CREWE'S CHARITY
- Charity Event Order
- 4
- Event Type
- Asset transfer in
- Date Of Event
- 2023-06-14T00:00:00
- Assoc Organisation Number
- 527337
- Assoc Registered Charity Number
- 527337
- Assoc Charity Name
- LORD CREWE'S DURHAM EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
- Charity Name
- LORD CREWE'S CHARITY
- Charity Event Order
- 1
- Event Type
- CIO registration
- Date Of Event
- 2013-12-20T00:00:00
- Charity Name
- LORD CREWE'S CHARITY
- Charity Event Order
- 3
- Event Type
- Asset transfer in
- Date Of Event
- 2023-06-14T00:00:00
- Assoc Organisation Number
- 527409
- Assoc Registered Charity Number
- 527409
- Assoc Charity Name
- LORD CREWES CHARITY - APPRENTICESHIP FUND
- Charity Name
- LORD CREWE'S CHARITY
- Charity Event Order
- 2
- Event Type
- Asset transfer in
- Date Of Event
- 2016-09-07T00:00:00
- Reason
- Transfer of funds
- Assoc Organisation Number
- 230347
- Assoc Registered Charity Number
- 230347
- Assoc Charity Name
- LORD CREWE'S CHARITY
09 Official extract
Charity Governing Document
- Governing Document Description
- CIO - Foundation Registered 20 Dec 2013 as amended on 05 Feb 2023 as amended on 20 May 2024
- Charitable Objects
- The objects of the CIO are, for the benefit of the public:3.1.1 The advancement of Christian religion by:(a) augmenting the stipends of necessitous clergy and their dependants in the Dioceses of Durham and Newcastle, particularly for the education of their children, and assisting them in other demonstrable charitable need;(b) the repair or construction of churches, chancels and parsonages in any ecclesiastical parish in which the charity owns land or to which the charity has the right of presentation to the benefice; and(c) providing financial support to Anglican clergy of various ecclesiastical parishes as determined by the trustees from time to time for religious education within those parishes.3.1.2 The relief of poverty by:(a) providing financial and other forms of charitable relief for the general benefit of the inhabitants of the Dioceses of Durham and Newcastle, giving preference to people and groups resident in parishes where the charity owns land or has the right of presentation to the benefice.3.1.3 The advancement of education by:(a) providing financial subsidies to university students at Lincoln College at the University of Oxford, or for any other charitable purposes connected with Lincoln College; and(b) providing other financial subsidies to educational institutions, whether in the ecclesiastical parish in which the charity owns land or has the right of presentation to the benefice or otherwise, specifically including the City of Durham.3.1.4 The relief of sickness (including physical, mental, emotional and spiritual) by providing such assistance (financial and otherwise) to such beneficiaries resident in the Dioceses of Durham and Newcastle as the trustees shall from time to time decide.3.1.5 For other charitable purposes which the trustees shall from time to time determine for the benefit of residents of the ecclesiastical parishes in which the charity owns land or to which the charity has the right of presentation to the benefice.
10 Official extract
Charity Policy
- Policy Name
- Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
- Policy Name
- Risk management
- Policy Name
- Financial reserves policy and procedures
- Policy Name
- Trustee expenses policy and procedures
- Policy Name
- Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
- Policy Name
- Complaints policy and procedures
- Policy Name
- Complaints handling
- Policy Name
- Investing charity funds policy and procedures
- Policy Name
- Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
- Policy Name
- Conflicting interests
- Policy Name
- Investment
- Policy Name
- Internal risk management policy and procedures
- Policy Name
- Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures