HELP FOR CARERS

Registered charity 1027026 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CROSSROADS CARE - SOUTH THAMES, MERTON CROSSROADS, MERTON CROSSROADS - CARING FOR CARERS LIMITED, SOUTH THAMES CROSSROADS - CARING FOR CARERS LIMITED, THE MERTON CROSSROADS CARE ATTENDANT SCHEME LIMITED, THE MERTON CROSSROADS CARE ATTNEDANT SCHEME

Help for Carers provides high quality support services for carers and vulnerable people. This includes providing homecare (respite) to carers using professionally trained care workers in peoples homes. Additionally, there are two Carers Hubs, in Croydon and Lambeth respectively, which offer a range of information, advice and support services to local carers.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE TO RELIEVE THE STRESSES EXPERIENCED BY CARERS, AND BENEFICIARIES IN ENGLAND AND WALES.BENEFICIARIES MEANS ANY PERSON OR PERSONS WHO HAVE CARE NEEDS AS A RESULT OF DISABILITY, ILLNESS OR AGE.CARERS MEANS ANY PERSON INVOLVED IN THE PROVISION OF CARE WITHOUT RECEIVING REMUNERATION OTHER THAN STATUTORY BENEFITS, FOR A PERSON OR PEOPLE WHO HAVE CARE NEEDS AS A RESULT OF DISABILITY, ILLNESS OR AGE.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED, IN PRACTICE LONDON BOROUGH OF MERTON

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Get email alerts

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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.

• Complaints handling
• Conflicting interests
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2018)

Reported reserves equal ~2.8 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (26/02/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Operates in: Croydon · Lambeth · Merton · Sutton · Wandsworth

Income and spending