2024 was a busy year for Cruse with 204 adults and 68 children and young people accessing the services.
The 2024-25 Report and Financial Statements outlined our current position and the challenges we faced during the year resulting in a small deficit of just over £16,000.
Our Chief Executive, Mary Doyle, commented “2024-25 has been a challenging year with this financial period looking to shape up to be equally difficult.
That said, the deficit for the last financial year did include costs for refurbishing the therapy rooms and main office space to give a more comforting and relaxed atmosphere for our staff, visitors and those seeking support.
Staff costs increased during the year reflecting our continued investment in the workforce capacity and capability. This includes adjustments to remuneration in line with market conditions and the charity’s commitment to retaining and rewarding talent and contribution.
We have invested in paid trainers to deliver our bereavement foundation course, mandatory training for existing volunteers plus we ran a number of workshops around traumatic and unexpected deaths.
We are a busy small charity that works hard to support individuals at one of the most painful times of their lives and we rely heavily on grants and donations to meet our costs.
We are deeply grateful to individuals and organisations that support us. It is important that we remain sustainable, by ensuring our volunteers are properly trained and supported. However, we must still be cognisant of the need to meet our ongoing costs such as rent, electricity, salaries, insurance and other expenses to maintain our high standards.
We are also delighted to share our 2025-28 strategy document and are seeking additional ways of generating income and support from local businesses and individuals. We have just launched our Donate10ToCruse – this is a campaign to raise funds to support the charity where people are asked to consider donating £10 to support our bereavement support.
Our financial reserves are robust and we are delighted that we have strengthened our board again this year with John Whitehouse, Oriana Hills, Peter Marshall and Deb Byron joining us."
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