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CARE SOUTH

Registered charity 1014697 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Care South provides quality care services in the south of England to up to 2000 people each day. All aspects of care including dementia, nursing, frailty and special needs are provided to people either in Care South's care homes or in their own homes.

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Latest income
£62.5m
Latest spending
£53.4m
Registered
1992
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The provided document contains only repetitive Docusign envelope identifiers and a date, with no financial data, trustee reports, or auditor statements included. Consequently, no information regarding the charity's financial health, reserves, or governance is available for analysis.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

Official officers record.

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

BuyerContractAwardedValue
Dorset CouncilRecovery and Community Resilience (RCR) - Direct Award Process C——

Property (HM Land Registry)

44 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (23 freehold); recorded price paid £17.4m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: Care South — Registered, 30 registered locations, 3 regulated activities, last inspected 19/10/2023.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (4,804 likes) · instagram (1,944 followers)

Advertised salaries (public job ads)

Roles this charity has advertised on CharityJob, matched on the exact employer name. A different source from the statutory pay bands above: these are asking salaries for vacancies, not what anyone was paid.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Total income
£62.5m
Total spending
£53.4m
Reserves (reported)
£75.1m
Employees
1,038

Reported reserves equal ~16.9 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (96% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Care Quality Commission ratings

CQC inspection ratings for services run by a provider matching this charity’s name (matched by name; verify provider identity on CQC’s site).

Trustees · trustee networks

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Bournemouth · Devon · Dorset · Poole · Somerset · West Sussex

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£62.5m£53.4m
31/03/2024£57.7m£52.4m
31/03/2023£50.0m£46.0m
31/03/2022£46.7m£41.1m
31/03/2021£47.8m£40.2m

Common questions

Is CARE SOUTH financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The provided document contains only repetitive Docusign envelope identifiers and a date, with no financial data, trustee reports, or auditor statements included. Consequently, no information regarding the charity's financial health, reserves, or governance is available for analysis.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund22/12/2010£5kMusic for Life

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
CARERS TRUST1£116k
THE THOMAS J HORNE MEMORIAL TRUST1£17k
SKIPTON BUILDING SOCIETY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION1£995
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF LANCHESTER AND BURNHOPE1£500

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ABBEYFIELD SOUTH WEST SOCIETY LIMITED.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
CARE SOUTH£62.5m—0unclear—no doubt
THE ABBEYFIELD SOUTH WEST SOCIETY LIMITED FY2025£1.7m—0unclear—no doubt
THE GLOUCESTER CHARITIES TRUST FY2025£6.2m—0unclear—no doubt
JAH-JIREH CHARITY HOMES FY2024£6.9m—0unclear—no doubt
SKANDA VALE HOSPICE CIO FY2024£404k—0unclear—no doubt
SOUTH BRISTOL SPORTS CENTRE FY2024£1.5m—0unclear—no doubt

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.