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Registered charity · Ipswich

Suffolk Family Carers

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £2.2m (2025)

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, Disability, Other Charitable Purposes
Where
Suffolk
Website
www.suffolkfamilycarers.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Suffolk Family Carers Limited
Registered
1998

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2.2m£2.4m
  • 2024£2.3m£2.5m
  • 2023£2.3m£2.6m
Earlier years
  • 2022£2.6m£2.5m
  • 2021£2.7m£2.4m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 67% · Government grants 2%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS SHALL BE THE PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS WITHIN THE COUNTY OF SUFFOLK AND SURROUNDING COUNTIES IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION OF PRACTICAL HELP, SUPPORT SERVICES, ADVOCACY AND EDUCATION TO PERSONS WHO ARE ACTING AS CARERS OF PEOPLE WITH PHYSICAL OR SENSORY DISABILITY, MENTAL HEALTH DIFFICULTY, LEARNING DISABILITY, ILL HEALTH OR WHO ARE AGED, AND THEIR FAMILIES AND BY PROVIDING INFORMATION AND MEDIATION AND BY BRINGING TOGETHER THE REPRESENTATIVES OF VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS AND STATUTORY AUTHORITIES.

Grants received

64 grants · £3,279,198 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

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.

10 trustees on the board

3y median 1.5y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

5.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

7
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 10Education/training 10The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 10

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 8Other services 2Arts 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£2.2m latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

1.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months

73 from 88 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.
69%
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
1069937
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 10/02/1998AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 05/07/1999AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 03/10/2001AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 06/11/2002AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 01/04/2003AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 09/02/2005AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 08/11/2006AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 14/11/2007AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 17/12/2013AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 11/12/2014AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 10/12/2014 as amended on 25 Nov 2020 as amended on 07 Dec 2022 as amended on 25 Nov 2020
Companies House
Company number 03507600 · Active
Contact on the register
01473835477 · enquiries@suffolkfamilycarers.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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