ACCURO (CARE SERVICES)

Registered charity 1094736 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ACCURO, HARLOW SHARED CARE

TO PROVIDE RESPITE CARE AND A RANGE OF OTHER SERVICES TO LOCAL CHILDREN/ADULTS WITH A DISABILITY AND THEIR FAMILIES

Objects

TO RELIEVE PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES AND/ OR THE ELDERLY WHO RESIDE IN ESSEX AND SURROUNDING AREAS BY PROVISION OF RESPITE CARE AND OTHER SERVICES FOR WHICH THE IS AN IDENTIFIED NEED AND SUCH SERVICES WILL ENCOMPASS THE NEED TO PROVIDE SUPPORT AND TRAINING TO VOLUNTEERS AND STAFF.

Area of benefit: ESSEX AND SURROUNDING AREAS.

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

Causes: Disability · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state a net surplus of £85,627 for the year, driven by unrestricted donations and charitable activities. Free reserves of £206,342 are reported as being below the charity's stated policy target of maintaining at least six months of unrestricted expenditure. The trustees confirm adequate resources for going concern, though they note challenges regarding reduced income from key funders.

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 5 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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 04507249

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Accuro (Care Services) (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• WALKER-FAGG, Zoe — director, appointed 25/11/2025on trustee list
• STEPHEN, Deborah — director, appointed 16/10/2025on trustee list
• THOMAS, Sarah Margaret Louise — director, appointed 26/11/2024on trustee list
• FINCH, Joan Evelyn — director, appointed 26/07/2023on trustee list
• BURNS, Annette Joye — director, appointed 28/01/2020on trustee list
• EMSDEN, Peter Clare — director, appointed 12/02/2019on trustee list
• PATE, Marie Catherine — director, appointed 19/09/2017on trustee list
• EMSDEN, Peter Clare — secretary, appointed 24/03/2020

Official officers record.

CQC provider record: Accuro — Deregistered, 2 registered locations, last inspected 17/10/2013.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~8.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (66% 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: 13.3% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Annette Joye Burns
• Deborah Stephen
• Joan Evelyn Finch
• Marie Catherine Pate
• Peter Clare Emsden
• Sarah Thomas
• Sarah miller · trustee of 1 other charity
• Zoe Walker-Fagg

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

Operates in: Essex

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 DISABILITY STOCKPORT CIO.

• DISABILITY STOCKPORT CIO income £1.5m
• COMMUNITY CARE OPTIONS income £705k
• NURTRIO LIMITED income £7.3m
• AGE CONCERN READING income £295k
• HELPING DISABILITIES TRUST income £131k
• AWARD SOLUTIONS LTD income £72k

Side by side with its peers

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