SKILLS FOR CARE LTD

Registered charity 1079836 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SKILLS FOR CARE

Our aim is to develop the adult social care workforce to provide quality social care services. We do this by: developing national occupational standards and qualification frameworks; collecting and analysing workforce information and other research; implementing our national workforce development strategy for all areas of the workforce; creating employer-led workforce development infrastructures.

Objects

TO HELP, SUPPORT AND ASSIST CARE SERVICE USERS AND TO IMPROVE STANDARDS OF SOCIAL CARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY BUT NOT LIMITED TO:I) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION BY THE ORGANISATION, PROMOTION OR PROVISION OF TRAINING TO PEOPLE (EMPLOYED OR VOLUNTEERS) ENGAGED OR TO BE ENGAGED IN WORKING WITH SOCIAL CARE USERS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM.II) TO GIVE PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO THE WORKFORCE AND SKILL DEVELOPMENT NEEDS OF ALL ORGANISATIONS, ASSOCIATIONS, INDIVIDUALS WORKING IN THE SECTORIII) TO PROMOTE THE DEVELOPMENT OF EMPLOYMENT EDUCATION AND TRAINING AGENDAS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND IN PARTICULAR TO ESTABLISH AND PROMOTE THE USE OF RELEVANT NATIONAL OCCUPATIONAL STANDARDS.IV) JOINTLY, WITH SOME OR ALL OF CENTRAL AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT, INDUSTRY BODIES, OTHER SECTOR SKILLS COUNCILS AND ALL RELEVANT EMPLOYERS AND STAFF GROUPS TO WORK ON STRATEGIES AND PROJECTS REGARDING:A) THE IMPACT OF LEGISLATION AND OTHER REGULATION PURSUANT TO LOCAL, NATIONAL OR EUROPEAN POLICIES ON THE SECTOR'S WORKFORCE;B) THE OPPORTUNITIES FOR CAREER DEVELOPMENT, LEADERSHIP, RECRUITMENT AND SKILL SHORTAGES; ANDC) THE DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A WORKFORCE TRAINING STRATEGY LINKED TO THE NEEDS OF THE SECTOR AND BASED ON AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE PRESENT AND FUTURE COMPETENCE NEEDS IN THESE OBJECTS, "SOCIAL CARE USERS", ARE THOSE PEOPLE IN NEED OF CARE AND SUPPORT BECAUSE OF OLD AGE, YOUTH, ILL HEALTH, DISABILITY OR FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AND THE "SECTOR" MEANS COLLECTIVELY PEOPLE, ORGANISATIONS AND GROUPS WORKING WITH SOCIAL CARE USERS.

Area of benefit: ENGLAND

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 · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Leeds, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with an overall loss of £0.4m despite receiving less grant funding from the Department of Health and Social Care than in previous years. The trustees report that they took decisive action, including parting with some colleagues, to reduce the deficit and intend to grow business development income to strengthen financial resilience.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited. Discloses 2 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03866683
• Trading subsidiary: AFFINA ORGANISATION DEVELOPMENT LIMITED Companies House 04644495
• Trading subsidiary: SKILLS FOR CARE SOLUTIONS LIMITED Companies House 07938138

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.

• TARKA, Beverley Felicia — director, appointed 01/09/2024on trustee list
• CHAMBERS, Peter John — director, appointed 01/04/2024on trustee list
• MACHIN, Penelope Jane — director, appointed 17/11/2022on trustee list
• TURABI, Naser Ulmulk Irteza — director, appointed 17/11/2022on trustee list
• BULLION, James Alexander — director, appointed 30/08/2022on trustee list
• DAY, Gillian — director, appointed 06/06/2022on trustee list
• COUGHLAN, John Joseph — director, appointed 21/02/2022on trustee list
• BAILEY, Suzanne Louise — director, appointed 24/10/2018not on trustee list
• SMYTH, Oonagh — secretary, appointed 31/05/2024

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles 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 ~17.3 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (91% 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: 4.4% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (01/02/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• John Joseph Coughlanchair
• Beverley Felicia Tarka
• Gillian Day
• James Alexander Bullion
• Naser Ulmulk Irteza Turabi
• Penelope Jane Machin
• Peter John Chambers
• Suzie Bailey

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SKILLS ENTERPRISE LIMITED.

• SKILLS ENTERPRISE LIMITED income £281k
• SKILLS FOR PEOPLE income £1.4m
• SKILLS DEVELOPMENT TRAINING income £31k
• SKILLS FOR COMMUNITIES LTD income £48k
• SKILLS FOR INDEPENDENCE AND EMPLOYABILITY LTD. income £6.0m
• Skills and Education Group income £6.9m

Side by side with its peers

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