# CROSSROADS GLOBAL VILLAGE (UK)

## Details

- **Country:** England &amp; Wales
- **Charity number:** 1153488
- **Other names:** CROSSROADS; CROSSROADS GLOBAL VILLAGE; CROSSROADS FOUNDATION; GLOBAL HAND; GLOBAL HAND (UK)
- **Status:** Registered
- **Legal form:** Charitable company
- **Company number:** [06003594](https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/06003594)
- **Registered:** Aug. 20, 2013
- **Register:** https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/?p_p_id=uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet&amp;p_p_lifecycle=0&amp;p_p_state=maximized&amp;p_p_mode=view&amp;_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_regId=1153488


## Contact

- **Address:** Capital Office, 124-128 City Road, LONDON
- **Postcode:** EC1V 2NX
- **Phone:** 020 3389 7177
- **Email:** enquiries@crossroadsglobalvillage.org.uk
- **Website:** www.cgvuk.org



## Activities

**Objects:** THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:-1. TO PROMOTE THE EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF CHARITIES AND THE EFFECTIVE USE OF CHARITABLE RESOURCES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC AND TO PROMOTE THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR BY FACILITATING THE DONATION OF GOODS, SERVICES, EXPERTISE AND SKILLS, AND THE PRACTICAL INTEREST AND INVOLVEMENT OF COMPANIES, FIRMS AND INDIVIDUALS, IN FURTHERING THE CHARITABLE PURPOSES OF: (A) RELIEVING AND ASSISTING THE VICTIMS OF WAR, CONFLICT AND NATURAL, MAN-MADE OR COMPLEX DISASTER, THROUGH THE PROVISION OF FOOD, MEDICAL AID, ACCOMMODATION, ACCESS TO WATER AND SANITATION AND OTHER HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE; (B) PREVENTING AND RELIEVING POVERTY IN GENERAL AND IN PARTICULAR BY ACTIVITIES THAT HELP ALLEVIATE POVERTY AND DISEASE IN RESOURCE POOR SETTINGS IN THE WORLD;(C) ADVANCING EDUCATION; (D) ADVANCING HEALTH OR SAVING LIVES; (E) RELIEVING THOSE IN NEED, BY REASON OF YOUTH, AGE, ILL-HEALTH, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE; (F) ADVANCING HUMAN RIGHTS, CONFLICT RESOLUTION OR RECONCILIATION OR PROMOTING RELIGIOUS OR RACIAL HARMONY OR EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY; (G) ADVANCING ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION OR IMPROVEMENT; OR(H) PROMOTING THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR.2. TO PROMOTE RELIEF AND ASSISTANCE TO VICTIMS OF WAR, CONFLICT AND NATURAL, MAN-MADE OR COMPLEX DISASTER BY AID AND TO PROMOTE THE PREVENTION AND RELIEF OF POVERTY AND THE RELIEF OF DISABILITY, TO PROMOTE THE ADVANCEMENT OF HEALTH AND SAVING OF LIVES, TO ADVANCE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION OR IMPROVEMENT, AND TO PROMOTE HUMAN RIGHTS AND TO ADVANCE EDUCATION BY PROVIDING EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES, FACILITIES AND EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES WHICH ENABLE PARTICIPANTS TO DEVELOP THEIR UNDERSTANDING OF AND EMPATHY TOWARDS ISSUES RELATING TO POVERTY, HUMANITARIAN NEED AND DISASTER RESPONSE.VOLUNTARY SECTOR SHALL MEAN ORGANISATIONS ESTABLISHED ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD WHICH ARE FURTHERING PURPOSES THAT ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE UNDER ENGLISH LAW AND OTHER INDEPENDENT ORGANISATIONS ESTABLISHED FOR PURPOSES THAT ADD VALUE TO THE COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE OR A SIGNIFICANT SECTION OF THE COMMUNITY, AND WHICH IN EACH CASE ARE NOT PERMITTED BY THEIR CONSTITUTION TO MAKE A PROFIT FOR PRIVATE DISTRIBUTION. THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR DOES NOT INCLUDE LOCAL GOVERNMENT OR STATUTORY AUTHORITIES.

**Activities:** A non-profit brokerage helping link for-profit entities, with non-profit organisations, foundations, trusts and governments to combat global need. In addition Global Handicrafts operating on a fair trade basis, sells gifts and items in the UK; and Global X-perience programmes simulating poverty, hunger, oppression and the plight of refugees enabling participants to experience such need first hand.




## Classification

- **How:** Provides Services, Provides Advocacy/advice/information, Acts As An Umbrella Or Resource Body
- **What:** General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Overseas Aid/famine Relief
- **Who:** Children/young People, Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies, The General Public/mankind



## Geography

- Throughout England And Wales





## Trustees

| Name | Role | Appointed |
|---|---|---|
| **MR BILL HAMPSON** | Chair | Jan. 22, 2013 |
| Dr Natalya Hanley |  | June 30, 2022 |
| Kevin James Dillon |  | Oct. 1, 2024 |
| Kim Elizabeth Elwell-Sutton |  | Feb. 14, 2025 |
| Laura Caroline Davis |  | Sept. 1, 2015 |
| Richard Payne |  | June 30, 2022 |




