FAMILY CARE TRUST
Registered charity 1045025 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FAMILY CARE TRUST (SOLIHULL)
Provides care services for a range of people with disabilities. These include day care centres for older people, support services for people in their own homes, befriending support in the community and assisting adults with a learning disability to acquire skills that improve opportunites for independent living.
Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · website · Get email alerts
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £99,056 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total funds increasing to £3,303,746. The trustees confirm that resources are adequate to continue as a going concern, noting that cashflow is monitored daily to cover liabilities as they fall due. However, the charity acknowledges a detrimental financial impact from an announced increase in Employer National Insurance, for which mitigating measures including head count reductions were taken.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Reserves policy: at least 6 weeks operating costs which equate to £477k (held: £3.3m)
“They believe that an amount of at least 6 weeks operating costs which equate to £477k based on operating costs for the year 2024/25 will be adequate.” — page 4
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts audited by J W Hinks LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.
Corporate structure
Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Family Care Trust (matched by registered charity number).
Leadership, per the charity’s website
- Dave Evans — Founder CEO (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.
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.
- EDWARDS, Christopher — director, appointed 31/03/2026on trustee list
- SPENCER, Paul Brian — director, appointed 18/03/2026on trustee list
- FORTUNE, Martin — director, appointed 27/01/2026on trustee list
- HUGHES, Elizabeth Ann — director, appointed 05/03/2024on trustee list
- DAVENPORT, John Alan, Dr — director, appointed 04/07/2023on trustee list
- MORGAN, Iain Dempster — director, appointed 16/04/2018on trustee list
- LOOK, Roger James — director, appointed 16/04/2018on trustee list
- PURSER, Richard John — director, appointed 29/01/2018not on trustee list
- LLEWELLYN, Catherine Mary — director, appointed 17/07/2002on trustee list
- PURSER, Richard John — secretary, appointed 24/02/2025
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.
Property (HM Land Registry)
2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.
CQC provider record: Family Care Trust — Registered, 2 registered locations, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 22/08/2018.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record
Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)
Cost of raising funds
£40k
Reported reserves equal ~1.3 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (78% 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: 0.9% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (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).
- Community Support Service: Good (12/09/2018) · CQC record
- CATHERINE MARY LLEWELLYN
- Christopher Edwards
- Dr John Alan Davenport
- Elizabeth Hughes
- Iain Morgan
- Martin Fortune · trustee of 2 other charities
- Paul Spencer
- RICHARD PURSER DipM
- Roger James Look · trustee of 1 other charity
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Birmingham City · Solihull · Warwickshire
Income and spending
Common questions
Is FAMILY CARE TRUST financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £99,056 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total funds increasing to £3,303,746. The trustees confirm that resources are adequate to continue as a going concern, noting that cashflow is monitored daily to cover liabilities as they fall due. However, the charity acknowledges a detrimental financial impact from an announced increase in Employer National Insurance, for which mitigating measures including head count reductions were taken. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by J W Hinks LLP.
Who funds FAMILY CARE TRUST?
Funders whose own accounts filings name FAMILY CARE TRUST as a grant recipient include THE ALBERT GUBAY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION, THE EDWARD AND DOROTHY CADBURY TRUST, THE FINNIS SCOTT FOUNDATION, LILLIE JOHNSON CHARITABLE TRUST, THE MICHAEL MARSH CHARITABLE TRUST.
Known funders
Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.
Government & lottery funding
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