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Registered charity · Cheshire

Signpost for Carers

  • 6 trustees
  • Income £911k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 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
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability and 1 more
Where
Stockport
Website
www.signpostforcarers.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Signpost Stockport for Carers
Registered
2001

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£911k£882k
  • 2024£934k£839k
  • 2023£760k£842k
Earlier years
  • 2022£650k£634k
  • 2021£602k£499k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 64% · Government grants 6%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO SERVE THE DISTRICT OF THE METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF STOCKPORT AND ANY OTHER NEARBY OR ADJOINING DISTRICT WHICH THE BOARD MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE IN ALLEVIATING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE AMONGST PEOPLE WHO ARE IN NECESSITOUS CIRCUMSTANCES AND WHO ARE CARING OR WHO HAVE CARED FOR A PERSON WHO HAS MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS HAS A PHYSICAL OR SENSORY DISABILITY HAS A LEARNING DISABILITIES OR WHOSE HEALTH IS IMPAIRED BY SICKNESS OR OLD AGE AND OF DEPENDANTS OF CARERS WHO ARE THEMSELVES IN NECESSITOUS CIRCUMSTANCES AND FOR THAT PURPOSE TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF SUCH CARERS AS AFORESAID AND TO ADVANCE EDUCATION CONCERNING CARING AMONGST CARERS AND THE PUBLIC

Grants received

25 grants · £1,597,024 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.

6 trustees on the board

1.8y median 1.5y
average tenure
4y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
2.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

6
company-linked trustees

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

Education/training 6General Charitable Purposes 6The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 6

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 6Public administration 1

Gaps to watch

  • Mostly recent joiners - limited long-term continuity

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£911k latest income · income exceeded spending 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.

4.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 1.7 in 2021

33 from 20 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.
70%
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
1085727
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 8 MARCH 2001 as amended on 21 Jan 2026
Companies House
Company number 04176004 · Active
Contact on the register
01614420442 · info@signpostforcarers.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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