CARERS SUPPORT MERTON

Registered charity 1085761 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Carers Support Merton provides information, advice, respite activities and support for unpaid carers of all ages of friends or relatives who are frail, ill, or have a disability or mental health problem.

Objects

THE OBJECT FOR WHICH THE COMPANY IS FORMED IS TO PROVIDE INFORMATION AND SUPPORT TO CARERS OF PERSONS WHO ARE FRAIL OR ILL OR WHO HAVE A DISABILITY OR WHO HAVE A MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEM AND ARE RESIDENT IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF MERTON, OR SUCH LOCAL AUTHORITY AREAS AS THE DIRECTORS SHALL SEE FIT.

Area of benefit: LONDON BOROUGH OF MERTON

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Merton, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Received the assets of HELP FOR CARERS (charity 1027026) — merger registered 14/03/2020.

Source: Charity Commission register of merged charities (OGL v3.0).

Latest income

£0

Latest spending

£79k

Registered

2001

We have not yet analysed this charity’s accounts. Register data shown below.

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.

Complaints handling
Conflicting interests
Investment
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
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.

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

Volunteers: 2
Government income: £460,957 — contracts £75,000 (1), grants £385,957 (2); 92% of the £503,036 total gross income on the same return

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

Government income: £595,329 — contracts £75,000 (1), grants £520,329 (4); 99% of the £598,820 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2022

Volunteers: 18
Government income: £527,910 — contracts £75,000 (1), grants £452,910 (3); 97% of the £546,779 total gross income on the same return

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2024)

Total income

£503k

Total spending

£622k

Reserves (reported)

£124k

Employees

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (98% 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

Michael Charles L'Amie Ribtonchair
Christopher David Tyson
Jennifer Hazel Tyson
Raymond Paul Kinsella
Serena Jane Imogen Morris DeMorgan
Tracy Jane Weight

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

Operates in: Merton

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£0	£79k
31/03/2024	£503k	£622k
31/03/2023	£599k	£596k
31/03/2022	£547k	£534k
31/03/2021	£542k	£482k

Common questions

Who funds CARERS SUPPORT MERTON?

Funders whose own accounts filings name CARERS SUPPORT MERTON as a grant recipient include THE TRIANGLE TRUST 1949 FUND, MERTON VOLUNTARY SERVICE COUNCIL, THE PAUL STRANK CHARITABLE TRUST.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
THE TRIANGLE TRUST 1949 FUND	FY2022	£28k	Carers
MERTON VOLUNTARY SERVICE COUNCIL	FY2023	£10k
THE PAUL STRANK CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2022	£1k
MERTON VOLUNTARY SERVICE COUNCIL	FY2024	amount not stated

Government & lottery funding

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

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
Greater London Authority	01/01/2020	£99k	Carers Support Merton
Greater London Authority	01/03/2019	£10k	Grant to Carers Support Merton
The National Lottery Community Fund	09/02/2017	£326k	Merton Carers Action Pathway (MCAP)
City Bridge Foundation	11/12/2016	£46k	Grant to Carers Support Merton
The National Lottery Community Fund	14/05/2014	£10k	Merton Carers Exercise Project
The National Lottery Community Fund	05/05/2011	£990k	Action for Young Carers Education and Support (AYCES)