BRENT CARERS CENTRE

Registered charity 1066691 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To give support and information on issues that concern young carers, adult carers and vulnerable people.

Objects

TO RELIEVE POVERTY, SICKNESS AND MENTAL SUFFERING AMONGST PERSONS WHO ARE CARING AT HOME FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE ELDERLY, DISABLED CHRONICALLY SICK OR SUFFERING FROM SUBSTANCE MISUSE OR AN ADDICTION AND TO ASSIST IN THE RELIEF OF VULNERABLE PEOPLE AND THOSE WHO ARE ELDERLY, DISABLED, CHRONICALLY SICK OR SUFFERING FROM SUBSTANCE MISUSE OR AN ADDICTION.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Brent, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a surplus of £115,273 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total funds increasing to £326,825. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £317,052, which is above the stated policy target of holding between 3 and 6 months of budgeted expenditure. The trustees confirmed adequate resources for the foreseeable future with no material uncertainties identified by the auditors.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Green & Peter (UK) Ltd. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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.

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2021 (received 22/03/2022, 50 days after the 31/01/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~5.6 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (97% 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (04/11/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• IRENE LEWISchair
• Abiola Johnson
• Arif Punjani
• HELEN HAGGER
• Susan Simei-Cunningham

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

Operates in: Brent

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

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

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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 BRIDGEND CARERS CENTRE.

• BRIDGEND CARERS CENTRE income £729k
• BARNET CARERS CENTRE income £1.8m
• ST HELENS CARERS CENTRE income £1.5m
• CARERS FEDERATION LTD income £1.6m
• SUNDERLAND CARERS' CENTRE income £794k
• SEFTON CARERS CENTRE income £2.2m

Side by side with its peers

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