CARE FOR THE CARERS

Registered charity 1074906 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CARE FOR THE CARERS LIMITED

To improve the quality of carers' lives by helping the local community recognise and value the role of carers, and by enabling carers to access the services and support they require.

Objects

THE CHARITIES OBJECTS ("THE OBJECT") ARE TO RELIEVE , IN EAST SUSSEX AND IN BRIGHTON AND HOVE THE CONDITIONS OF PERSONS WHO ARE ELDERLY, SICK OR DISABLED BY PROVIDING SUPPORT, ADVICE AND INFORMATION TO THEIR CARERS.

Area of benefit: EAST SUSSEX AND IN BRIGHTON AND HOVE

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Eastbourne, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£1.7m
Latest spending
£2.1m
Registered
1999
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated an accounting deficit of £405,872 for the year, drawing on designated reserves to fund activities. Per the trustees' report, the charity remains in a stable financial position with unrestricted reserves of £269,076 and cash balances of £1,031,196.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Kreston Reeves LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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.

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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2025

  • Volunteers: 344
  • Government income: £1,519,668 — contracts £1,436,013 (1), grants £83,655 (2); 87% of the £1,743,099 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2024

  • Volunteers: 363
  • Government income: £1,328,725 — contracts £1,327,958 (1), grants £767 (1); 73% of the £1,821,044 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2023

  • Volunteers: 348
  • Government income: £789,472 — contracts £593,090 (1), grants £196,382 (3); 54% of the £1,451,261 total gross income on the same return

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

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

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

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

Total income
£1.7m
Total spending
£2.1m
Cost of raising funds
£65k
Reserves (reported)
£1.9m
Employees
44

Reported reserves equal ~10.5 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (95% 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: 3.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: East Sussex

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£1.7m£2.1m
31/03/2024£1.8m£1.9m
31/03/2023£1.5m£1.4m
31/03/2022£1.1m£949k
31/03/2021£957k£826k

Common questions

Is CARE FOR THE CARERS financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity generated an accounting deficit of £405,872 for the year, drawing on designated reserves to fund activities. Per the trustees' report, the charity remains in a stable financial position with unrestricted reserves of £269,076 and cash balances of £1,031,196. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Kreston Reeves LLP.

Who funds CARE FOR THE CARERS?

Funders whose own accounts filings name CARE FOR THE CARERS as a grant recipient include CARERS TRUST, THE HEADLEY TRUST, SCHRODER CHARITY TRUST, THE HOBSON CHARITY LIMITED, JOHN JACKSON CHARITABLE TRUST.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
CARERS TRUSTFY2025£50kGrant to Network Partner
THE HEADLEY TRUSTFY2022£40kTowards the new young carers support service in East Sussex.
SCHRODER CHARITY TRUSTFY2021£5k
THE HOBSON CHARITY LIMITEDFY2025£4kCarers
JOHN JACKSON CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2025£2kSocial Welfare
JOHN JACKSON CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2022£1kSocial welfare
THE IAN ASKEW CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2023£1k
THE IAN ASKEW CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2024£1k
JOHN JACKSON CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2024£800Social Welfare

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund30/10/2025£20kCarers in Touch
The National Lottery Community Fund15/03/2021£265kCarers satellite centres
UK government23/07/2020£80kCoronavirus Community Support Fund
The National Lottery Community Fund06/03/2020£10kPutting Young Carers in the picture
UK government28/02/2020£20kUK Youth Fund YAF
The National Lottery Heritage Fund15/05/2018£10k"Carers' words, carers' lives: hidden stories - three decades of care for the Carers"
The National Lottery Community Fund02/09/2015£4kA4A - Carer for the Carers 25th Celebration Event
The National Lottery Community Fund23/04/2009£10kCarers' Resource Centre

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 CARERS UK.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
CARE FOR THE CARERS£1.7m—0unclear—no doubt
CARERS UK FY2026£4.7m——below—no doubt
CARE WORKERS SUPPORT FY2025£1.3m——above—no doubt
ENFIELD CARERS CENTRE FY2025£1.5m——unclear—no doubt
CARERS TRUST FY2025£13.0m——above8.0%no doubt
CARERS CARELINE FY2025£79k—0unclear—no doubt

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