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Registered charity · London

Carers UK

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £4.8m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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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
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.carersuk.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Carers UK
Registered
1966

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£4.8m£4.8m
  • 2024£4.6m£5.0m
  • 2023£5.0m£5.0m
Earlier years
  • 2022£4.9m£4.7m
  • 2021£4.5m£4.0m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 17%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE CHARITY IS ESTABLISHED ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AND ARE: TO ALLEVIATE THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE AMONGST PEOPLE WHO ARE CARING OR WHO HAVE CARED FOR OLDER, ILL, DISABLED, OR OTHERWISE INFIRM PERSONS (HEREINAFTER CALLED ‘CARERS’) AND WHO ARE IN, OR RISK FINDING THEMSELVES IN, NECESSITOUS CIRCUMSTANCES, AND OF DEPENDANTS OF CARERS BEING DEPENDANTS WHO ARE THEMSELVES IN NECESSITOUS CIRCUMSTANCES, AND FOR THAT PURPOSE TO PROMOTE THE MATERIAL WELFARE OF SUCH CARERS. TO RELIEVE AND ALLEVIATE, AND TO ADVANCE, PROMOTE, ENCOURAGE AND ASSIST IN THE RELIEF OR ALLEVIATION OF ALL KINDS OF MENTAL AND PHYSICAL INFIRMITY, SICKNESS, DISABLEMENT OR ILLNESS INCLUDING MENTAL ILLNESS ATTRIBUTABLE TO CARING, AMONGST CARERS AND THOSE PERSONS FOR WHOM THEY ARE CARING. TO ADVANCE EDUCATION CONCERNING CARING AMONGST CARERS AND THE PUBLIC. TO PROMOTE SUCH OTHER EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE FOR THE BENEFIT OF CARERS AND THEIR FAMILIES AND DEPENDANTS TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY EACH OF THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES, SCOTLAND AND NORTHERN IRELAND AS APPLICABLE.

Grants received

65 grants · £5,598,736 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

  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £1,664,140 (21 grants)
  • Sport England · £862,169 (4 grants)
  • Department of Health and Social Care · £710,558 (8 grants)
  • Pears Foundation · £595,000 (7 grants)
  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology · £320,979

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.

5.2y median 6y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure
16y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

Portfolio (2)

8
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 9Amateur Sport 1Disability 1Recreation 1The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 1

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 12Other services 3Professional services 2

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£4.8m 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.

5.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months

69 from 66 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
246329
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 15 NOVEMBER 1965, AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS DATED 6 SEPTEMBER 1982, 4 MAY 1988, 22 SEPTEMBER 1993, 23 SEPTEMBER 1999, 8 NOVEMBER 2001, 9 NOVEMBER 2006 AND 8 NOVEMBER 2007.AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 10 NOV 2016AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 29 JUN 2017AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 11 JUL 2017 as amended on 14 Oct 2021
Companies House
Company number 00864097 · Active
Contact on the register
02073784945 · info@carersuk.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
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