CARE (CHRISTIAN ACTION RESEARCH AND EDUCATION)

Registered charity 1066963 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CARE

CARE is a registered Christian charity seeking to combine practical caring initiatives, at national and community level, with public policy on social and ethical issues. CARE provides resources, campaigns, undertakes caring work and helps to bring Christian insight and experience to matters of public policy, education and practical caring initiatives, particularly on behalf of the most needy.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with unrestricted reserves of £1,154,454, which falls within the trustees' stated policy target of £615,000 to £1,230,000. Although the charity reported a net expenditure of £94,408, the trustees confirm that resources are adequate to continue operations and meet all reasonable going concern tests.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by UHY Hacker Young Fitch Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — CARE (Christian Action Research and Education) (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

Electoral Commission register entries

Entries on the Electoral Commission’s public register where this charity (or its company) appears as the source — typically sponsorship of an APPG or an overseas visit provided to an MP, which charities may lawfully do. Shown with the Commission’s own reference; this is a transparency record, not an allegation.

• Non Cash: Mr Gary Nicholas Streeter MP (MP - Member of Parliament) — £7k · 23/09/2018 · ref NC0404773
  Staff costs
• Non Cash: Mr Jonathan Cruddas MP (MP - Member of Parliament) — £8k · 08/10/2017 · ref NC0340276
  Staff costs
• Non Cash: The Rt Hon Caroline Spelman MP (MP - Member of Parliament) — £8k · 03/10/2017 · ref NC0340284
  Staff costs

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~5.8 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 13.6% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (10/07/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (16/12/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alexander Bruce Duguid
• Charlie Hoare
• Jason Angus MacKenzie
• Kamesh Flynn
• Lucy Rochelle
• Mark Richard Parsons
• Michael Green
• Rev Charles Trefusis · trustee of 2 other charities
• Simon Martyn Begbey

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

Operates in: City Of Westminster · Northern Ireland · Scotland

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

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 CARE UK Charity.

• CARE UK Charity income £470k
• CARE INTERNATIONAL UK income £64.1m
• CAREDUCATION TRUST LTD income £133k
• CARE ENGLAND income £1.2m
• CHRISTIAN AFRICAN RELIEF TRUST income £142k
• CAREY BAPTIST CHURCH, READING income £613k

Side by side with its peers

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