Registered charity · Maldon
Action for Family Carers
- 9 trustees
- Income £1.3m (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
- General Charitable Purposes
- Where
- Essex
- Website
- www.affc.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Action for Family Carers
- Registered
- 2008
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£1.3m£1.2m
- 2024£666k£790k
- 2023£735k£666k
Earlier years
- 2022£907k£833k
- 2021£807k£789k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 42% · Government grants 6%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF PERSONS WHO ARE ILL, DISABLED, INCAPACITATED OR ELDERLY BY THE PROVISION OF INFORMATION, EDUCATION, SUPPORT, RESPITE CARE, RECREATION AND ADVOCACY FOR THEIR CARERS.
Grants received
42 grants · £1,977,377 total360Giving 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
- The National Lottery Community Fund · £844,668 (6 grants)
- Essex Community Foundation · £551,270 (23 grants)
- Henry Smith Foundation · £226,300 (2 grants)
- Garfield Weston Foundation · £120,000 (4 grants)
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £97,000
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.
9 trustees on the board
- Tony Dixon Chair since 2018
- Colin Bennett
- Denise Fielding since 2011
- David J Petts since 2026
- Duncan Lumley since 2019
- Jillian Fletcher since 2024
- Paul Edwards since 2025
- Pauline Haggerty since 2016
- Sharon Schofield since 2025
Trustees past 6 years
- Tony Dixon Chair since 2018
- Denise Fielding since 2011
- Duncan Lumley since 2019
- Pauline Haggerty since 2016
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (8)
- Tony Dixon Chair since 2018
- Colin Bennett
- Denise Fielding since 2011
- David J Petts since 2026
- Jillian Fletcher since 2024
- Paul Edwards since 2025
- Pauline Haggerty since 2016
- Sharon Schofield since 2025
Portfolio (1)
- Duncan Lumley since 2019
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
3.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 4.5 in 2021
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1127164
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 26 AUGUST 2008 AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 22 MAY 2009 AND SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 19 OCTOBER 2010
- Companies House
- Company number 06680960 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 01621 851640 · info@affc.org.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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