CARER SUPPORT WILTSHIRE
Registered charity 1092762 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CARERS SUPPORT NORTH WILTS
Carer Support Wiltshire provides free and confidential support, advice, information, training and opportunities to take a break from their caring role for all age unpaid carers in Wiltshire and Dorset regardless of the disability, illness or age of the person being cared for.
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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that total income decreased by 49% to £851,939 due to the loss of the Wiltshire Council contract, while total funds increased to £558,851. The charity reports unrestricted free reserves of £214,956, which are above its stated minimum policy target of £73,000. The trustees confirm the organisation is a going concern with confidence in its new strategy to reduce reliance on council contracts.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Reserves policy: minimum unrestricted reserve level of £73,000 (held: £215k)
“The Trustee Board has set a minimum unrestricted reserve level of £73,000 and no upper limit.” — page 20
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.
Corporate structure
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.
- LAFFERTY, Ian Carlyle — director, appointed 21/09/2022on trustee list
- SULLY, Nigel Howard — director, appointed 22/09/2021on trustee list
- CHEREMUKHIN, Alexander — director, appointed 12/05/2021on trustee list
- PARKER, Martin Robert — director, appointed 03/02/2021on trustee list
- BALDWIN, Ian — director, appointed 13/05/2020on trustee list
- ROSE, Vanessa Ann — secretary, appointed 01/05/2023
Official officers record.
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)
Cost of raising funds
£75k
Reported reserves equal ~3.4 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 8.8% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).
Register events
- Received assets from another charity (16/05/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Received assets from another charity (21/03/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Received assets from another charity (30/05/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Dorset · Wiltshire
Income and spending
Common questions
Is CARER SUPPORT WILTSHIRE financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that total income decreased by 49% to £851,939 due to the loss of the Wiltshire Council contract, while total funds increased to £558,851. The charity reports unrestricted free reserves of £214,956, which are above its stated minimum policy target of £73,000. The trustees confirm the organisation is a going concern with confidence in its new strategy to reduce reliance on council contracts. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.
Who funds CARER SUPPORT WILTSHIRE?
Funders whose own accounts filings name CARER SUPPORT WILTSHIRE as a grant recipient include CARERS TRUST, THE ASTOR FOUNDATION.
Known funders
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