CARERS IN HERTFORDSHIRE

Registered charity 1085491 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity seeks to provide information and support to family carers who are elderly disabled or chronically sick and to advance public education about family caring, involve carers in consultation and enable them to have a voice in the county and influence change in policies and improvements in services that affect carers' lives.

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Latest income

£3.3m

Latest spending

£3.3m

Registered

2001

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £5,297 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total funds carried forward at £1,866,139. The trustees maintain a contingency reserve of £876,313, which they state represents six months of ongoing unrestricted expenditure. The auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting was appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Highest-paid employee band: £80,001 - £90,000 — above the median for charities its size (£70k)

“1 employee earned more than £60,000 during the year, in the bracket £80,001-£90,000” — page 35

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Employees paid over £60,000: 1

“1 employee earned more than £60,000 during the year, in the bracket £80,001-£90,000” — page 35

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Reserves position: below the charity's own stated reserves policy (held: £1.9m; policy: 6 months of ongoing unrestricted expenditure)

“As at 31 March 2025 the balance on this reserve was reduced to £876,313 representing 6 months of expenditure based on the 2025/26 financial budget”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

Top pay band moved from £70,001 - £80,000 (FY2024) to £80,001 - £90,000 (FY2025).

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

Corporate structure

Registered company of the charity Companies House 04131036

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Carers in Herts (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.

WASHINGTON, Karen Andrea — director, appointed 25/03/2026on trustee list
MARR, Cheryl — director, appointed 02/10/2025on trustee list
PAKES NEWTON, Sarah Margaret — director, appointed 26/06/2025not on trustee list
LATHAM, Andrew Philip — director, appointed 16/12/2024on trustee list
LEWIS, Richard Martin — director, appointed 18/03/2024on trustee list
MACKENZIE, Lauren — director, appointed 27/02/2024on trustee list
SEAGROATT, Tony — director, appointed 14/12/2021on trustee list
MCLENNAN, Kevin — director, appointed 21/02/2020on trustee list
STOKES, Michele — secretary, appointed 28/06/2022

Official officers record.

CQC provider record: Carers in Hertfordshire — Deregistered, 1 registered location, last inspected 06/12/2017.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)

Total income

£3.3m

Total spending

£3.3m

Reserves (reported)

£1.2m

Employees

110

Reported reserves equal ~4.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (92% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

Received assets from another charity (27/03/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
Received assets from another charity (10/09/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
Received assets from another charity (19/07/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

Andrew Latham
Cheryl Marr
Karen Washington
Kevin McLennan
Lauren MacKenzie
Richard Martin Lewis
Sarah Pakes Newton
Tony Seagroatt

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

Operates in: Hertfordshire

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£3.3m	£3.3m
31/03/2024	£3.3m	£3.3m
31/03/2023	£2.9m	£3.1m
31/03/2022	£3.2m	£3.1m
31/03/2021	£3.2m	£3.0m

Common questions

Is CARERS IN HERTFORDSHIRE financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £5,297 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total funds carried forward at £1,866,139. The trustees maintain a contingency reserve of £876,313, which they state represents six months of ongoing unrestricted expenditure. The auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting was appropriate with no material uncertainties identified. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Sayer Vincent LLP.

What does the highest-paid employee of CARERS IN HERTFORDSHIRE earn?

Per its FY2025 accounts, the highest-paid employee was in the £80,001 - £90,000 band, and 1 employees earned over £60,000.

Who funds CARERS IN HERTFORDSHIRE?

Funders whose own accounts filings name CARERS IN HERTFORDSHIRE as a grant recipient include THE THOMPSON FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST, CARERS TRUST, BELVEDERE TRUST, THE BATCHWORTH TRUST.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
THE THOMPSON FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2024	£65k
CARERS TRUST	FY2025	£59k	Grant to Network Partner
THE THOMPSON FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2022	£50k
THE THOMPSON FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2025	£5k
BELVEDERE TRUST	FY2025	£5k
THE BATCHWORTH TRUST	FY2022	£5k

Government & lottery funding

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

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
Sport England	07/08/2024	£11k	Young Carers – Ways to Wellbeing
The National Lottery Community Fund	01/02/2019	£418k	Caring (4) Volunteers
The National Lottery Community Fund	19/01/2007	£10k	Medicines Matters

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
THE TRIANGLE TRUST 1949 FUND	2	£34k
CHARLES S FRENCH CHARITABLE TRUST	2	£10k
THE FIDELITY UK FOUNDATION	1	£550k
THE ALBERT GUBAY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	1	£374k
THE PEARS FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	1	£210k
LLOYDS BANK FOUNDATION FOR ENGLAND & WALES	1	£150k
THE DULVERTON TRUST	1	£105k
ESSEX COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	1	£89k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ACTION FOR FAMILY CARERS.

ACTION FOR FAMILY CARERS income £1.3m
WARWICKSHIRE YOUNG CARERS income £194k
CITY & HACKNEY CARERS CENTRE income £275k
CARERS UK income £4.8m
Carers Trust Hillingdon and Ealing income £1.8m
EAST SUSSEX BRIGHTON & HOVE CROSSROADS - CARING FOR CARERS LIMITED income £492k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
CARERS IN HERTFORDSHIRE	£3.3m	£80,001 - £90,000	1	below	—	no doubt
ACTION FOR FAMILY CARERS FY2025	£1.3m	—	0	above	—	no doubt
WARWICKSHIRE YOUNG CARERS FY2025	£194k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
CITY & HACKNEY CARERS CENTRE FY2025	£275k	—	0	within	—	no doubt
CARERS UK FY2025	£4.8m	—	—	above	—	no doubt
Carers Trust Hillingdon and Ealing FY2025	£1.8m	—	0	above	—	no doubt

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