CARING TOGETHER CHARITY

Registered charity 1091522 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CARING TOGETHER, CROSSROADS CARE CAMBRIDGESHIRE, WEST ANGLIA CROSSROADS, WEST ANGLIA CROSSROADS CARING FOR CARERS

Under the names Carers Trust Cambridgeshire, Peterborough and Norfolk we provide information, emotional and practical support, training and breaks from caring for adult, young adult and young carers. We promote independence, support in emergencies and provide CQC regulated care for adults and children with special or complex needs. Personalised support is through clubs, groups or in family homes.

Objects

THE COMPANY’S OBJECTS ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING:- (A) THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED BY REASONS OF AGE, ILL HEALTH, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE THROUGH THE PROVISION OF COMPREHENSIVE SUPPORT SERVICES FOR CARERS AND PEOPLE WITH CARE NEEDS , PRINCIPALLY THROUGHOUT CAMBRIDGESHIRE, PETERBOROUGH AND NORFOLK AND SURROUNDING COUNTIES; AND (B) THE ASSISTANCE OF CARERS IN NEED INCLUDING BY RAISING AWARENESS OF ISSUES AFFECTING CARERS

Area of benefit: EAST OF ENGLAND, PRINCIPALLY THROUGHOUT CAMBRIDGESHIRE, PETERBOROUGH AND NORFOLK AND SURROUNDING COUNTIES.

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

Registered contact address: Huntingdonshire, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £192.5k for the year ended 31 March 2026, driven by increased expenditure on charitable activities and fundraising costs. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves decreased to £752.1k, resulting in a reserves position of 2.1 months of operating costs, which is below the stated policy target of 2-3 months.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Price Bailey LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission; Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04379948

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Caring Together (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Andrew Glover — Chair (source)
• Stuart Evans — Chair (Former) (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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Admiral Lord Nelson Masonic Lodge — “Admiral Lord Nelson Masonic Lodge presented us with a cheque for £500.” (source page)
• Buckles Solicitors — “Thanks to Buckles Solicitors for supporting our work through disbursements from Will Trusts.” (source page)
• City and University of Cambridge Masonic Charitable Trust — “City and University of Cambridge Masonic Charitable Trust allocated £1,000 of their funds to our work.” (source page)
• Lions District 105CE — “Lions District 105CE gave £4,000 for our work with young carers.” (source page)
• MM Wealth — “MM Wealth donated £1,000.” (source page)

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.

• GLOVER, Andrew Michael — director, appointed 01/04/2026on trustee list
• SCOTT, Steven Fergus — director, appointed 22/01/2025on trustee list
• BLAKE, Mark Colin — director, appointed 22/01/2025on trustee list
• HEPTON, Katherine — director, appointed 16/09/2024on trustee list
• PISANI, Anita — director, appointed 16/09/2024on trustee list
• TALBOT, Donna Marie — director, appointed 02/06/2021on trustee list
• PORTOR, Neil — secretary, appointed 17/10/2022

Official officers record.

CQC provider record: Caring Together Charity — Registered, 7 registered locations, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 26/10/2018.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~2.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (97% 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: 4.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Care Quality Commission ratings

CQC inspection ratings for services run by a provider matching this charity’s name (matched by name; verify provider identity on CQC’s site).

• Caring Together: Good (04/12/2018) · CQC record
• Caring Together: Good (30/06/2017) · CQC record

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (16/02/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (31/10/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Glover · trustee of 3 other charities
• Anita Pisani
• Donna Marie Talbot
• Katherine Hepton
• Mark Blake
• Steven Scott

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

Operates in: Bedford · Cambridgeshire · Central Bedfordshire · Essex · Hertfordshire · Lincolnshire · Norfolk · Peterborough City · Suffolk

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

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 CARERS TRUST.

• CARERS TRUST income £13.0m
• CARERS TOGETHER FOUNDATION income £579k
• Together Collective income £717k
• Carers Plus Yorkshire Ltd income £1.3m
• THE TOGETHER TRUST income £41.2m
• CARERS TOGETHER IN HAMPSHIRE income £178k

Side by side with its peers

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