CARE FOR THE FAMILY

Registered charity 1066905 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LETSDOLIFE, NATIONAL COUPLE SUPPORT NETWORK · also registered in Scotland as SC038497 (OSCR)

Care for the Family's aim is to strengthen and support family life. We provide relationship education and support in three key areas: marriage, parenting and bereavement. Activities include day and evening events, activity holidays and residential breaks, marriage and parenting courses, volunteer telephone befrienders, and books, DVDs and other resources to strengthen family life.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net income of £207,345 for the year ended 31 December 2024, with total income of £4.16m against expenditure of £4.07m. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £3,522k, which is above the stated policy target of six months' core operating costs (approximately £1.50m). The charity reports no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Menzies LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Care for the Family (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Robin Vincent — Chief Executive (source)
• Katharine Hill — Director (source)
• Philip Jinadu — Director (source)
• John O’Brien — Chair of Trustees (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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £1.3m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~9.6 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (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: 7.9% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (24/01/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (17/06/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (17/06/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (13/03/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (16/02/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (06/04/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Iain Duthie · trustee of 1 other charity
• JOHN JAMES O'BRIEN · trustee of 4 other charities
• Nicholas Peter Andrews
• PAUL EDWIN FRANCIS · trustee of 4 other charities
• SAMANTHA CALLAN
• Sally Ann Jones-Evans · trustee of 1 other charity
• Yolanda Alexandra Ibbett · trustee of 4 other charities

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

Operates in: Isle Of Man · Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

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 The Caring Family Foundation.

• The Caring Family Foundation income £3.6m
• FAMILY CARE TRUST income £4.2m
• CARING FOR LIFE income £4.8m
• ACTION FOR FAMILY CARERS income £1.3m
• GOOD NEWS FAMILY CARE (HOMES) LTD income £437k
• FRG LTD income £2.3m

Side by side with its peers

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