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Registered charity · Leeds

Skills for Care LTD

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £26m (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Disability, Economic/community Development/employment
Where
Throughout England
Website
www.skillsforcare.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Skills for Care LTD
Registered
2000

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£26m£30m
  • 2024£42m£42m
  • 2023£35m£35m
Earlier years
  • 2022£39m£38m
  • 2021£36m£35m
Charitable objects

TO HELP, SUPPORT AND ASSIST CARE SERVICE USERS AND TO IMPROVE STANDARDS OF SOCIAL CARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY BUT NOT LIMITED TO:I) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION BY THE ORGANISATION, PROMOTION OR PROVISION OF TRAINING TO PEOPLE (EMPLOYED OR VOLUNTEERS) ENGAGED OR TO BE ENGAGED IN WORKING WITH SOCIAL CARE USERS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM.II) TO GIVE PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE WORKFORCE AND SKILL DEVELOPMENT NEEDS OF ALL ORGANISATIONS, ASSOCIATIONS, INDIVIDUALS WORKING IN THE SECTORIII) TO PROMOTE THE DEVELOPMENT OF EMPLOYMENT EDUCATION AND TRAINING AGENDAS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND IN PARTICULAR TO ESTABLISH AND PROMOTE THE USE OF RELEVANT NATIONAL OCCUPATIONAL STANDARDS.IV) JOINTLY, WITH SOME OR ALL OF CENTRAL AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT, INDUSTRY BODIES, OTHER SECTOR SKILLS COUNCILS AND ALL RELEVANT EMPLOYERS AND STAFF GROUPS TO WORK ON STRATEGIES AND PROJECTS REGARDING:A) THE IMPACT OF LEGISLATION AND OTHER REGULATION PURSUANT TO LOCAL, NATIONAL OR EUROPEAN POLICIES ON THE SECTOR'S WORKFORCE;B) THE OPPORTUNITIES FOR CAREER DEVELOPMENT, LEADERSHIP, RECRUITMENT AND SKILL SHORTAGES; ANDC) THE DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A WORKFORCE TRAINING STRATEGY LINKED TO THE NEEDS OF THE SECTOR AND BASED ON AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE PRESENT AND FUTURE COMPETENCE NEEDS IN THESE OBJECTS, "SOCIAL CARE USERS", ARE THOSE PEOPLE IN NEED OF CARE AND SUPPORT BECAUSE OF OLD AGE, YOUTH, ILL HEALTH, DISABILITY OR FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AND THE "SECTOR" MEANS COLLECTIVELY PEOPLE, ORGANISATIONS AND GROUPS WORKING WITH SOCIAL CARE USERS.

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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.

9 trustees on the board

4.3y median 4y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

14.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

9
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 9Education/training 9General Charitable Purposes 9

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

Education 11Health and social care 9Other services 5

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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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£26.1m 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.

17.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 10.1 in 2021

204 from 203 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.
89%
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
1079836
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 27TH OCTOBER 1999 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS DATED 26 NOVEMBER 2008 AND 17 NOVEMBER 2010. as amended on 24 Oct 2018 as amended on 14 Oct 2020 as amended on 12 Oct 2022 as amended on 27 Mar 2024
Companies House
Company number 03866683 · Active
Contact on the register
01132451716 · info@skillsforcare.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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