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.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income increased to £26,686,379, producing a surplus of £2,612,498 for the year ended 31 March 2025. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £11,678,510, which is above the stated policy target range, and the charity confirmed it is a going concern with adequate resources to meet its obligations for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

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

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £133,324 (FY2024) to £137,691 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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 · instagram

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.3 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (76% 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: 15.3% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 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).

• 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

Common questions

Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

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

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.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Aapna Services Limited.

• Aapna Services Limited income £1.2m
• CARE FOR THE CARERS income £1.7m
• Caring for Communities and People income £13.0m
• ACTION FOR FAMILY CARERS income £1.3m
• AVANTE CARE AND SUPPORT LIMITED income £44.0m
• CARE WORKERS SUPPORT income £1.3m

Side by side with its peers

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