HARROW CARERS

Registered charity 1062149 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CARERS SUPPORT HARROW

Support for carers of all ages and backgrounds in Harrow.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net income surplus of £112,199 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income increasing by 12.3% to £2,135,121. Free/unrestricted reserves increased to £546,872, which the trustees note is below their stated policy target of approximately four months' operating costs. The auditor confirmed the financial statements give a true and fair view and raised no going concern issues.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by MG Audit Services Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03325055
• Trading subsidiary: ELITE SPECIALIST CARE LIMITED Companies House 04129763

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Karen Gilchrist — Head of Adult Services (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.

• BACUYANI, Marigold — director, appointed 10/06/2026on trustee list
• PARMAR, Varsha — director, appointed 20/03/2026on trustee list
• D'CRUZ, Patrick Joseph — director, appointed 22/05/2025on trustee list
• BHARGAVA, Shalini — director, appointed 20/09/2022on trustee list
• BROOMHEAD, Geoffrey Ian — director, appointed 05/05/2022on trustee list
• HOWKINS, Janice Karen, Dr — director, appointed 19/10/2017on trustee list
• JONES, Peter Mark Christopher — director, appointed 29/10/2015on trustee list
• VARSANI, Manoj Ravji — director, appointed 20/05/2014on trustee list
• KEEBLE, Peter Weimer — director, appointed 07/10/2004on trustee list
• BEYNON, Peter John — director, appointed 31/03/2004on trustee list
• POWELL, Colin — secretary, appointed 01/02/2025

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold); recorded price paid £1.6m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: Harrow Carers — Deregistered, 2 registered locations, last inspected 29/03/2011.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

CQC provider record: Harrow Carers — Deregistered, 1 registered location, last inspected 20/02/2019.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.2 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (94% 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: 5.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (01/04/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Geoffrey Broomheadchair
• DR Janice Karen Howkins
• MANOJ VARSANI · trustee of 1 other charity
• Marigold Bacuyani
• PETER BEYNON
• PETER KEEBLE
• Patrick Dcruz
• Peter Jones
• Shalini Bhargava
• Varsha Parmar

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HARLOW COMMUNITY CENTRE ASSOCIATION.

• HARLOW COMMUNITY CENTRE ASSOCIATION income £103k
• THE HARROW MISSION income £315k
• NORTH HARROW COMMUNITY LIBRARY income £120k
• HARROW BAPTIST CHURCH income £187k
• HARROW TOGETHER income £1.5m
• WANDSWORTH CARERS' CENTRE income £955k

Side by side with its peers

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