GUILD CARE

Registered charity 1044658 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Our aim is to deliver innovative and life-changing care services for older people and those living with dementia and to support children and young people affected by life limiting illnesses and disabilities . We also support their unpaid carers with respite services to enable them to enjoy a richer family and community life. We have a culture of continuous improvement for our customers.

Objects

TO ADVANCE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN THE AREAS OF GREATER LONDON EAST AND WEST SUSSEX AND SUCH OTHER AREAS THE BOARD SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING THE RELIEF OF POVERTY,SICKNESS AND THE AGED.

Area of benefit: GREATER LONDON, EAST SUSSEX, WEST SUSSEX

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Accommodation/housing · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Worthing, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Received the assets of:

WORTHING LITTLEHAMPTON AND DISTRICT SCOPE (charity 1096424) — merger registered 12/07/2019
THE BELL MEMORIAL HOME INCORPORATED (charity 206244) — merger registered 01/09/2017

Source: Charity Commission register of merged charities (OGL v3.0).

Latest income

£27.5m

Latest spending

£26.0m

Registered

1995

Accounts read

FY2026

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that total income for the year was £27,483,171, producing a surplus of £1,471,824. Free/unrestricted reserves stood at £13,149,225, which is above the charity's stated policy target range. The charity remains a going concern with adequate debt facilities and cash balances of £5,104,030.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Highest-paid employee band: £141,532 — above the median for charities its size (£130k)

“The highest paid executive was paid £141,532 (2025: £137,691).” — page 32

Per its FY2026 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Reserves policy: to hold free reserves in the range between the budgeted running cost of the charity’s highest surplus generating service for a period of three months and one month of the total budgeted running costs for the entire charity. (reserves figure: £13.1m)

“Guild Care’s reserves policy is to hold free reserves in the range between the budgeted running cost of the charity’s highest surplus generating service for a period of three months and one month of the total budgeted running costs for the entire charity.” — page 14

Per its FY2026 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Trading subsidiary: Guild Care (Trading) Limited

“Guild Care (Trading) Limited is a subsidiary of Guild Care which has been dormant since 2024 and recorded turnover of £NIL (2025: £NIL) for the year and generated a £NIL surplus (2025: Nil surplus).”

Per its FY2026 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

Top pay band moved from £137,691 (FY2025) to £141,532 (FY2026).

Comparing this charity’s FY2025 and FY2026 accounts as analysed by this site.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission; Homes England; Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management 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)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2026

Volunteers: 409
Government income: £4,327,634 — contracts £4,327,634 (9); 16% of the £27,483,171 total gross income on the same return
Employees paid over £60,000: 20 (£60,001–£70,000: 11; £70,001–£80,000: 4; £80,001–£90,000: 2; £90,001–£100,000: 1; £110,001–£120,000: 1; £120,001–£130,000: 1)
Has a trading subsidiary

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2025

Volunteers: 468
Government income: £2,142,641 — contracts £2,138,570 (11), grants £4,071 (1); 8% of the £26,686,379 total gross income on the same return
Employees paid over £60,000: 15 (£60,001–£70,000: 8; £70,001–£80,000: 4; £90,001–£100,000: 1; £100,001–£110,000: 1; £120,001–£130,000: 1)
Has a trading subsidiary

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2024

Volunteers: 336
Government income: £2,845,307 — contracts £2,845,307 (9); 13% of the £21,563,899 total gross income on the same return
Employees paid over £60,000: 15 (£60,001–£70,000: 11; £80,001–£90,000: 1; £100,001–£110,000: 3)
Has a trading subsidiary

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

Corporate structure

Registered company of the charity Companies House 03021390

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Tracey Wadey — Director of Care Homes (source)

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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

Wall Bros Carpets & Flooring — “Wall Bros Carpets & Flooring has been a proud supporter of Worthing’s leading social care charity, Guild Care, since the 1950s.” (source page)

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.

JONES, Simon Clive — director, appointed 11/05/2026on trustee list
BAILLIE, Lauren Marion — director, appointed 11/05/2026on trustee list
OGDEN-MEADE, Mark — director, appointed 11/05/2026on trustee list
COOPER, Victoria Louise — director, appointed 09/12/2024on trustee list
KINSEY, Peter — director, appointed 14/03/2022on trustee list
DESAI, Bimal Kanoo — director, appointed 14/12/2020on trustee list
PROTOPAPA, Rita — director, appointed 11/06/2018on trustee list
HOUGHTON, Eileen Mary — director, appointed 27/11/2017on trustee list
CLINCH, Charles Guy — director, appointed 28/09/2016on trustee list
DAVIS, Mark Christopher — director, appointed 09/05/2016on trustee list
PRIVATE COMPANY REGISTRARS LIMITED — corporate secretary, appointed 25/06/2015

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

19 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (6 freehold); recorded price paid £3.3m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: Guild Care — Registered, 8 registered locations, 3 regulated activities, last inspected 29/04/2022.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (8,073 followers) · instagram (1,930 followers)

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Total income

£27.5m

Total spending

£26.0m

Cost of raising funds

£4.6m

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (80% 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: 16.8% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 3.7%) (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).

Caer Gwent: Requires improvement (22/06/2022) · CQC record
Linfield House: Good (08/07/2021) · CQC record
Haviland House: Good (13/05/2025) · CQC record
Guild Care Domiciliary Care: Good (17/06/2026) · CQC record

Register events

Received assets from another charity (12/07/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
Received assets from another charity (01/09/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

Bimal Desai
Charles Clinch
Lauren Baillie
Mark Davis
Mark Ogden-Meade
Rita Protopapa · trustee of 1 other charity
Simon Jones
Victoria Louise Cooper

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

Operates in: East Sussex · West Sussex

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2026	£27.5m	£26.0m
31/03/2025	£26.7m	£24.1m
31/03/2024	£21.6m	£20.7m
31/03/2023	£18.2m	£18.5m
31/03/2022	£15.8m	£15.7m

Common questions

Is GUILD CARE financially healthy?

Per its FY2026 accounts: The accounts state that total income for the year was £27,483,171, producing a surplus of £1,471,824. Free/unrestricted reserves stood at £13,149,225, which is above the charity's stated policy target range. The charity remains a going concern with adequate debt facilities and cash balances of £5,104,030. Its FY2026 accounts were audited by Crowe U.K. LLP.

What does the highest-paid employee of GUILD CARE earn?

Per its FY2026 accounts, the highest-paid employee was in the £141,532 band.

Who funds GUILD CARE?

Funders whose own accounts filings name GUILD CARE as a grant recipient include THE THOMAS J HORNE MEMORIAL TRUST, THE FRANCIS WINHAM FOUNDATION, THE THREE OAKS TRUST, THE HOBSON CHARITY LIMITED, THE WO STREET CHARITABLE FOUNDATION.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
THE FRANCIS WINHAM FOUNDATION	FY2026	Unverified read£10k
THE THOMAS J HORNE MEMORIAL TRUST	FY2024	£7k
THE THOMAS J HORNE MEMORIAL TRUST	FY2023	£6k
THE THOMAS J HORNE MEMORIAL TRUST	FY2022	£6k
THE FRANCIS WINHAM FOUNDATION	FY2025	£5k
THE THREE OAKS TRUST	FY2024	£5k
THE HOBSON CHARITY LIMITED	FY2022	£5k	Disability
THE WO STREET CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	FY2021	£4k
THE DIXIE ROSE FINDLAY CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2023	£2k
CHAPMAN CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2023	£2k
FRIARSGATE TRUST	FY2023	£2k	Education
W G EDWARDS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	FY2023	£1k
THE THOMAS J HORNE MEMORIAL TRUST	FY2025	amount not stated

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
The National Lottery Community Fund	17/06/2022	£8k	Creating Connections
The National Lottery Community Fund	10/07/2018	£440k	The Haven
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	19/09/2017	£49k	"The Lancing Bell - a care home and its community"
The National Lottery Community Fund	25/11/2015	£9k	Bradbury Wellbeing Centre - Community Day
The National Lottery Community Fund	04/10/2012	£10k	Guild Cares Healthy Living Cnetre - Installation of moveable walls and door
Sport England	13/08/2012	£23k	Outdoor gym for local older people
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	03/12/2007	£47k	"Time for History"
The National Lottery Community Fund	08/03/2005	£47k	Older Carers' Link-Worker
UK government	—	£125	Financial Assistance/Support

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
THE EDWARD AND DOROTHY CADBURY TRUST	2	£16k
THE MICHAEL MARSH CHARITABLE TRUST	2	£10k
THE FINNIS SCOTT FOUNDATION	2	£9k
THE ALBERT GUBAY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	1	£374k
THE BLAGRAVE TRUST	1	£280k
DAVID & RUTH LEWIS FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£255k
THE TOLKIEN TRUST	1	£220k
John Lewis Partnership Foundation	1	£181k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with FOR CHILDREN & YOUNG PEOPLE.

FOR CHILDREN & YOUNG PEOPLE income £1.5m
MILEN CARE income £137k
BECOME CHARITY income £2.0m
FAMILY CARE TRUST income £4.1m
MENTAL HEALTH MATTERS income £28.2m
BID SERVICES income £6.6m

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
GUILD CARE	£27.5m	£141,532	—	above	—	no doubt
FOR CHILDREN & YOUNG PEOPLE FY2025	£1.5m	—	0	unclear	1.0%	no doubt
MILEN CARE FY2025	£137k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
BECOME CHARITY FY2025	£2.0m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
FAMILY CARE TRUST FY2025	£4.1m	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
MENTAL HEALTH MATTERS FY2025	£28.2m	£110,001 - £120,000	—	above	—	no doubt

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