CREDU SUPPORTING YOUNG AND ADULT CARERS LIMITED

Registered charity 1103712 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CREDU, PCS, POWYS CARERS' SERVICE LIMITED, WCD YOUNG CARERS & POWYS YOUNG CARERS

Supporting Unpaid Carers of all ages in PowysSupporting Young Carers in Wrexham, Conwy & Denbighshire

Objects

1. TO ALLEVIATE MENTAL AND PHYSICAL DISTRESS AMONGST EXISTING AND FORMER UNPAID CARERS.2. TO ADVANCE EDUCATION CONCERNING CARING AMONGST CARERS AND THE PUBLIC.

Area of benefit: THE COUNTY OF POWYS

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

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

Registered contact address: Powys, Wales (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a small net surplus of £2,950 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £1,602,301 and total expenditure of £1,599,351. The trustees report that unrestricted reserves stood at £507,959, which is above their stated policy target of covering current liabilities calculated at £220,902. The auditors confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Godfrey Wilson Limited. Discloses 5 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
• 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
• 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 04779458

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

Funders the charity credits

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

• Welsh Government — “Welsh Government commit to further 3 years of funding for Carers '' I am very pleased to announce our renewed commitment to our national Sho…” (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.

• MORTON, Mary — director, appointed 03/12/2025on trustee list
• MITCHELL, Claire — director, appointed 11/12/2024on trustee list
• HEATHCOTE, Gabrielle — director, appointed 20/06/2022on trustee list
• BLEAKLEY, Emily Louise — director, appointed 15/12/2021on trustee list
• EVITTS, Margaret Hilda — director, appointed 15/06/2020on trustee list
• JOHN, Susanne Constance — director, appointed 15/06/2020on trustee list
• JARVIS, Marilyn Ann — director, appointed 17/06/2012on trustee list
• HAZLEWOOD, Phillipa — secretary, appointed 08/10/2025

Official officers record.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.8 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 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: 3.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/06/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Claire Mitchell
• Emily Louise Bleakley
• Gabrielle Heathcote
• MARILYN ANN JARVIS
• Margaret Hilda Evitts
• Mary Morton
• Nick Andrews
• Susanne Constance John

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

Operates in: Ceredigion · Conwy · Denbighshire · Powys · Wrexham

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WARWICKSHIRE YOUNG CARERS.

• WARWICKSHIRE YOUNG CARERS income £195k
• HARROW CARERS income £2.1m
• CARTREFI CYMRU CO-OPERATIVE LIMITED income £42.9m
• CAREDUCATION TRUST LTD income £133k
• BRIDGEND CARERS CENTRE income £729k
• AGE CYMRU DYFED income £2.0m

Side by side with its peers

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