SOUTHWARK DIOCESAN WELCARE

Registered charity 1107859 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WELCARE

Welcare is a Charity, based on Christian values, working in South London and East Surrey. We offer family support, mentoring services and group work programmes for parents and children. We strive to empower families with children up to the age of 13 by offering practical and emotional support to overcome challenges and to enable parents to give children secure and confident childhoods.

Objects

1. THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND DISTRESS AND THE PROMOTION OF ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF FAMILIES AND CHILDREN AND PREGNANT WOMEN;2. THE PROMOTION OF THE SOCIAL MISSION OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH;3. THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED, IN PRACTICE SOUTHWARK, GREATER LONDON

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

Registered contact address: Reigate and Banstead, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that free reserves totalled £411k, which falls within the Board's stated policy target of three to six months of expenditure (£218k - £447k). The charity reported a net income surplus of £699,595 for the year, supported by increased donations and rental income, while maintaining adequate resources to continue operational existence.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by TC Group. Discloses 6 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
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Welcare (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).

• Garfield Weston Foundation — “Garfield Weston Grant 2026-27” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

4 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (4 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~5.3 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (68% 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: 6.6% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (15/06/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Shaun Peter Macdonaldchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Christopher TAYLOR · trustee of 5 other charities
• Louise Villeneau
• Natalie Walters
• Patrick James Williams
• Rev Rachel Curley · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Bromley · Greenwich · Lambeth · Richmond Upon Thames · Southwark · Surrey · Wandsworth

Income and spending

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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 THE KINGSTON AND DISTRICT WEL-CARE ASSOCIATION.

• THE KINGSTON AND DISTRICT WEL-CARE ASSOCIATION income £99k
• WHOLECARE CIO income £60k
• REAL CARE LTD income £1.8m
• SWANSEA AND BRECON DIOCESAN BOARD FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY income £2.3m
• WELLCHILD income £2.0m
• WESTGATE WHIRLYBIRDS income £232k

Side by side with its peers

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