Care Rights UK: your care champion

Registered charity 1020194 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as Care Rights UK, THE RELATIVES AND RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION, THE RELATIVES ASSOCIATION, THE RELATIVES ASSOCIATION LIMITED

Care Rights UK is your care champion, the charity focused on promoting the rights of people in care. We want people to know their rights and how to use them. We offer information, advice and support to empower people using care services, and their relatives and friends. As a community of families and experts, we challenge poor, highlight good practice and demand a better system.

Objects

(I)TO ALLEVIATE DISTRESS AND SUFFERING AMONGST ELDERLY PEOPLE BY ANY MEANS CONSIDERED NECESSARY FROM TIME TO TIME AND DEEMED BY LAW TO BE CHARITABLE. (II)TO ALLEVIATE THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE AMONG PEOPLE(INCLUDING RELATIVES) WHO ARE CARING OR WHO HAVE CARED FOR ELDERLY PEOPLE AND WHO ARE IN NECESSITOUS CIRCUMSTANCES, AND OF THE DEPENDENTS OF SUCH CARERS BEING DEPENDENTS WHO ARE THEMSELVES IN NECESSITOUS CIRCUMSTANCES, AND FOR THAT REASON TO PROMOTE THE MATERIAL WELFARE OF SUCH CARERS AS AFORESAID. (III)TO ADVANCE EDUCATION BY THE PROVISION OF ADVICE AND COUNSELLING AND THE DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION TO ELDERLY PEOPLE AND TO PERSONS(INCLUDING RELATIVES) CARING FOR OR HAVING CARERS FOR ELDERLY PEOPLE. (IV)TO ASSIST IN ACHIEVING AND MAINTAINING THE HIGHEST POSSIBLE STANDARDS OF CARE FOR ELDERLY PEOPLE RESIDENT IN RESIDENTIAL CARE HOMES, NURSING HOMES, HOMES WITH DUAL REGISTRATION, LONG STAY HOSPITALS OR OTHER HOMES FOR THE CARE OF ELDERLY PEOPLE.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £365,223 for the year ended 31 March 2025, driven by an investment loss of £154,167. Despite this deficit, the trustees confirm the charity remains a going concern with unrestricted reserves of £2,387,724, which they consider sufficient to secure the charity's immediate future for the next 12 to 18 months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Care Rights UK (matched by registered charity number).

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Trustees · trustee networks

• Richard Malcolm Haweschair
• Anne-Marie Alice Winton
• Duncan Edward Lugton
• Emily Anne Graham
• Muhammad Saiyedul Muttaqin
• Peter Quentin Storey
• Robert Walter Graham

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ACCESS YOUR RIGHT TO CARE.

• ACCESS YOUR RIGHT TO CARE income £2.6m
• CARERS UK income £4.7m
• CARERS TRUST income £13.0m
• ENFIELD CARERS CENTRE income £1.5m
• CARE FOR THE CARERS income £1.7m
• SUTTON CARERS CENTRE CHARITY COMPANY income £733k

Side by side with its peers

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