ST HELENS CARERS CENTRE

Registered charity 1089663 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Support for Carers in the borough of St Helens. Young Carers aged 6-18 and Adult Carers

Objects

THE RELIEF OF PERSONS WHO ARE ILL DISABLED OR ELDERLY BY PROVISION OF ADVICE, INFORMATION AND SUPPORT TO THOSE WHO CARE FOR THEM [WITHIN ST HELENS AND ADJOINING AREAS].

Area of benefit: ST HELENS AND ADJOINING AREAS

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: St. Helens, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £37,374 for the year ended 31 March 2025, reversing a previous deficit. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £603,828, which the trustees confirm covers over three months of direct charitable expenditure, aligning with their policy target of retaining reserves to cover three to six months of annual expenditure.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Xeinadin Audit Limited. 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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2022 (received 28/02/2023, 28 days after the 31/01/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — St Helens Carers Centre (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Jane Dearden — Chair (source)
• Theresa Butler — Vice Chair (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £194k. 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 ~3.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (95% 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: 0.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• JANE DEARDENchair
• ALMA SISSON
• CANON GEOFFREY ALMOND · trustee of 1 other charity
• Diane Margaret Charnock · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jennifer Barbara Sheffield
• THERESA ANN BUTLER

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

Operates in: St Helens

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 BRENT CARERS CENTRE.

• BRENT CARERS CENTRE income £794k
• CARERS FEDERATION LTD income £1.6m
• HARROW CARERS income £2.1m
• SEFTON CARERS CENTRE income £2.2m
• SUPPORT FOR CARERS (SCARBOROUGH AND DISTRICT) income £86k
• SUNDERLAND CARERS' CENTRE income £794k

Side by side with its peers

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