SOCIAL CARE IN ACTION

Registered charity 1096903 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE QUINN CENTRE

Health and Social Care

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

Latest income
£5.4m
Latest spending
£6.1m
Registered
2003
Accounts read
FY2024

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the group recorded a net expenditure deficit of £737,105 for the year ended 30 September 2024, resulting in a decrease in total reserves from £3,424,275 to £2,687,170. Despite the deficit, the trustees are satisfied with the financial stability of the group and consider it a going concern with no material uncertainties identified by the auditors.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Highest-paid employee band: £130,001 - £140,000 — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median £70k)
“£130,000 - £140,000 1 -” — page 23
Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Employees paid over £60,000: 6
“Employees’ emoluments between 2024 2023 £60,000 - £70,000 1 2 £70,000 - £80,000 2 1 £80,000 - £90,000 2 - £90,000 - £100,000 - 1 £100,000 - £110,000 - # £110,000 - £120,000 - - £120,000 - £130,000 - - £130,000 - £140,000 1 -”
Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Saffery LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Social Care in Action (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

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)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold); recorded price paid £674k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2024)

Total income
£5.4m
Total spending
£6.1m
Reserves (reported)
£2.2m
Employees
211

Reported reserves equal ~4.4 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (96% 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 — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Dorset · Hampshire · Portsmouth City · Southampton City

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
30/09/2024£5.4m£6.1m
30/09/2023£4.9m£5.4m
30/09/2022£4.5m£5.1m
30/09/2021£8.2m£4.8m
30/09/2020£11.8m£12.3m

Common questions

Is SOCIAL CARE IN ACTION financially healthy?

Per its FY2024 accounts: The accounts state that the group recorded a net expenditure deficit of £737,105 for the year ended 30 September 2024, resulting in a decrease in total reserves from £3,424,275 to £2,687,170. Despite the deficit, the trustees are satisfied with the financial stability of the group and consider it a going concern with no material uncertainties identified by the auditors. Its FY2024 accounts were audited by Saffery LLP.

What does the highest-paid employee of SOCIAL CARE IN ACTION earn?

Per its FY2024 accounts, the highest-paid employee was in the £130,001 - £140,000 band, and 6 employees earned over £60,000.

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund20/12/2012£8kPreparing for the Future Project

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 West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
SOCIAL CARE IN ACTION£5.4m£130,001 - £140,0006unclear—no doubt
West Yorkshire Community Accountancy Service CIO FY2025£478k—0unclear—no doubt
STEPS TO WORK FY2023£11.4m——unclear—no doubt
YOUR VOICE IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE FY2025£1.2m—0unclear—no doubt
FUSION LIFESTYLE FY2022£5.1m——unclear—no doubt
FARLEIGH HOSPICE FY2025£30.2m£110,000 - £119,999—unclear—no doubt

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