CARERS FIRST

Registered charity 1085430 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Carers FIRST is a charity supporting people who look after a relative or friend who due to ill health, physical or mental illness, disability, frailty, or addiction cannot manage without their support. We provide information, advice, guidance, emotional support, training and activities, giving carers an opportunity to have a break from their caring role and help them to get the support they need.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a net surplus of £144,645 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total incoming resources of £5,289,243. The trustees report that unrestricted reserves of £1,235,740 are in line with their risk-based reserves policy, which targets a range between £1.3m and £1.8m. The charity notes unexpected cost pressures, including a £141,000 increase in employers' National Insurance contributions, but maintains that resources are adequate to continue operations.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Lindeyer Francis Ferguson Limited. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 2 (FY2024) → 3 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04144820

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Carers First (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• PICKERSGILL, Sarah — director, appointed 25/03/2026on trustee list
• WITHERS, Caroline Bernadette Elizabeth — director, appointed 22/01/2026on trustee list
• USHER, Hannah Elizabeth — director, appointed 05/01/2026on trustee list
• TAYLOR, Josephine Mary — director, appointed 24/12/2025on trustee list
• HIGHAM, Christian Patrick Shepley — director, appointed 18/11/2025on trustee list
• CECCHINI, Daniela Domenica — director, appointed 25/10/2024on trustee list
• NEAL, Semantha — director, appointed 01/07/2023on trustee list
• SPARROW, Clive Bertram — director, appointed 16/06/2023on trustee list
• HUSSAIN, Manir, Dr — director, appointed 16/06/2023on trustee list
• HEYS, Roberta Camilla — director, appointed 16/06/2023on trustee list
• WELLS, Vicki Jayne — director, appointed 11/11/2020on trustee list
• JENKINS, Peter Alan — director, appointed 06/04/2020on trustee list
• RUST, Kelly Ann — secretary, appointed 09/03/2026

Official officers record.

CQC provider record: Carers First — Deregistered, 3 registered locations, last inspected 12/12/2016.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.4 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 1.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (14/11/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (18/04/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Vicki Jayne Wellschair
• CLIVE BERTRAM SPARROW · trustee of 1 other charity
• Caroline Bernadette Elizabeth Withers
• Christian Patrick Shepley Higham
• Daniela Domenica Cecchini
• Hannah Elizabeth Usher
• Josephine Mary Taylor
• Peter Alan Jenkins
• Roberta Camilla Heys
• Sarah Joan Louise Pickersgill

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

Operates in: Croydon · Essex · Hackney · Haringey · Lincolnshire · Medway · Southend-on-sea · Waltham Forest

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 CARE FOR THE CARERS.

• CARE FOR THE CARERS income £1.7m
• CARERS TRUST income £13.0m
• THE CARERS' RESOURCE income £4.4m
• CARERS UK income £4.8m
• CARERS FEDERATION LTD income £1.6m
• Carers Choices income £1.8m

Side by side with its peers

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