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Carers Trust

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £13m (2025)
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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
Scotland, Northern Ireland, Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.carers.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Carers Trust
Registered
2011

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£13m£13m
  • 2024£11m£11m
  • 2023£8.8m£9.3m
Earlier years
  • 2022£9.3m£8.4m
  • 2021£9.9m£9.6m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 36% · Government grants 3%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

A) THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED BY REASONS OF AGE, ILL HEALTH, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE THROUGH THE PROVISION OF COMPREHENSIVE SUPPORT SERVICES FOR CARERS THROUGHOUT THE UNITED KINGDOM, THE CHANNEL ISLANDS AND THE ISLE OF MAN.B) THE ASSISTANCE OF CARERS IN NEED INCLUDING BY RAISING AWARENESS OF ISSUES AFFECTING CARERSC) THE PROMOTION OF THE EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF CHARITIES WHICH OPERATE FOR THE CARE AND SUPPORT OF CARERS

Grants received

40 grants · £19,631,231 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

  • Pears Foundation £500,0002025-11-25
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £4,992,2932025-11-24
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £50,0002025-11-19
  • Postcode Care Trust £1,000,0002025-02-13
  • Pears Foundation £230,0002024-12-16
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.

1.5y median 1y
average tenure
4y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
8.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (1)

10
company-linked trustees

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

General Charitable Purposes 11

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

Other services 11Health and social care 4Business services 2

Gaps to watch

  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

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£13.0m latest income
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: 3.7 months · was 1.4 in 2021

79 from 62 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.
39%
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
1145181
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 07 JUL 2011AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 16/12/2011AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 22/12/2011 AS AMENDED ON 22 OCT 2020AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 10 MAY 2022 as amended on 06 Nov 2025
Companies House
Company number 07697170 · Active
Contact on the register
03007729600 · info@carers.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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