Registered charity · Lancashire

Carers Link - Lancashire

10 trustees
Income £1.3m (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does: General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Disability, Other Charitable Purposes
Where: Lancashire
Website: www.carerslinklancashire.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company: Carers Link Lancashire
Registered: 2014

Income and spending

YearIncomeSpending
2025£1.3m£1.2m
2024£1.1m£1.1m
2023£970k£874k

Earlier years

2022£965k£866k
2021£955k£882k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 77%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO RELIEVE THOSE WHO ARE ILL, DISABLED, ELDERLY OR OTHERWISE HANDICAPPED LIVING IN HYNDBURN,RIBBLE VALLEY AND AREAS OF LANCASHIRE BY THE PROVISION OF INFORMATION, TRAINING AND SUPPORT FOR THEIR CARERS; AND TO RAISE PUBLIC AWARENESS IN ALL ASPECTS RELATING TO CARERS AND CARING'.

Grants received

7 grants · £387,886 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

BBC Children in Need · £244,931 (4 grants)
The Triangle Trust 1949 Fund · £80,000
Masonic Charitable Foundation · £59,955
Community Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside · £3,000

Most recent

Masonic Charitable Foundation £59,9552025-05-15
Community Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside £3,0002024-07-01
BBC Children in Need £5002022-10-20
BBC Children in Need £100,5002021-08-10
BBC Children in Need £113,9342018-10-23

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

Andrew Gilbert since 2025
Brian Birtle since 2022
Brian Ozenbrook since 2016
Councillor Barbara Ashworth since 2021
Councillor Daniel Cassidy since 2022
Jeff Leahy since 2019
Melissa Fisher since 2016
Mohammed Mustafa since 2016
Patricia Ahmed since 2018
Susan Bibby since 2017

6.8y median 7.5y

average tenure

10y

longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

Brian Ozenbrook since 2016
Jeff Leahy since 2019
Melissa Fisher since 2016
Mohammed Mustafa since 2016
Patricia Ahmed since 2018
Susan Bibby since 2017

10.9y

average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Andrew Gilbert since 2025
Brian Birtle since 2022
Brian Ozenbrook since 2016
Councillor Daniel Cassidy since 2022
Jeff Leahy since 2019
Mohammed Mustafa since 2016
Patricia Ahmed since 2018
Susan Bibby since 2017

Portfolio (2)

Councillor Barbara Ashworth since 2021
Melissa Fisher since 2016

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 10General Charitable Purposes 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.

Tech and media 10Other services 2Arts and leisure 1

Gaps to watch

Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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£1.3m 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.

3.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 10.2 in 2021

34 from 25 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.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details

Registered charity number: 1156275
Status: Registered
Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 25 JUN 2013 as amended on 19 Jun 2024
Companies House: Company number 08584591 · Active
Contact on the register: 01254 387444 · info@carerslinklancashire.co.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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