Signpost For Carers

Registered charity 1085727 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SIGNPOST STOCKPORT FOR CARERS

Provides free, confidential information to carers of all ages, and professionals who work with carers, in the Stockport area.There is a Young Carers section, looking after young carers up to the age of 18.Carers Liaison are there for benefits advice and make home visits to help complete benefit claim forms.Carers Breaks provide grants for carers to have a rest from their caring role.

Objects

TO SERVE THE DISTRICT OF THE METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF STOCKPORT AND ANY OTHER NEARBY OR ADJOINING DISTRICT WHICH THE BOARD MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE IN ALLEVIATING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE AMONGST PEOPLE WHO ARE IN NECESSITOUS CIRCUMSTANCES AND WHO ARE CARING OR WHO HAVE CARED FOR A PERSON WHO HAS MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS HAS A PHYSICAL OR SENSORY DISABILITY HAS A LEARNING DISABILITIES OR WHOSE HEALTH IS IMPAIRED BY SICKNESS OR OLD AGE AND OF DEPENDANTS OF CARERS WHO ARE THEMSELVES IN NECESSITOUS CIRCUMSTANCES AND FOR THAT PURPOSE TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF SUCH CARERS AS AFORESAID AND TO ADVANCE EDUCATION CONCERNING CARING AMONGST CARERS AND THE PUBLIC

Area of benefit: THE DISTRICT OF THE METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF STOCKPORT AND ANY OTHER NEARBY OR ADJOINING DISTRICT

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 · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Stockport, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a surplus of £28,971 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £911,082. However, the unrestricted funds are in deficit by £46,078, a position the Trustees attribute to timing differences regarding year-end payments rather than underlying instability. The charity relies on a mix of secured statutory contracts, grant income, and ongoing fundraising to maintain its services.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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.

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

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (83% 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: 3.9% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (11/12/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Steven John Gearchair
• James Cox
• Jane Curzon
• Jilly Julian
• Lorraine Bardsley
• Myer James Lugassy

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

Operates in: Stockport

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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

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 YORK CARERS CENTRE.

• YORK CARERS CENTRE income £679k
• SUPPORT FOR CARERS (SCARBOROUGH AND DISTRICT) income £86k
• ACTION FOR CARERS (SURREY) income £2.9m
• SUTTON CARERS CENTRE CHARITY COMPANY income £733k
• WARWICKSHIRE YOUNG CARERS income £195k
• CARERS TRUST income £13.0m

Side by side with its peers

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