TOTNES CARING LTD

Registered charity 1112436 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Our aim is to offer help and assistance to elderly, disabled and vulnerable people of the 2 Doctors surgeries in Totnes and surrounding parishes to enable them to live in their own homes and receive a level of support which will help them remain independent and not be isolated from the community.We provide services such health related transport, befriending, shopping, home help and form filling.

Objects

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF PERSONS IN NEED RESIDING IN TOTNES AND THE SURROUNDING AREA IN PARTICULAR FOR THE RELIEF OF THE ELDERLY AND SICK.

Area of benefit: TOTNES AND THE SURROUNDING AREA

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 · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: South Hams, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £105,519 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £507,559 to £402,040. The trustees note that the balance held in the reserves fund at 31 March 2025 is equal to the target figure of three months' running costs. The charity relies heavily on fundraising and donations, noting that raising funds has been particularly challenging due to a tough economic scene.

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.

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
• 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)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Totnes Caring Ltd (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~7.6 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 1.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Emma Foremanchair
• DR James Charles Elliott Cooper
• Dr Richard Frank Hawker
• Ian Franklin
• Miles Kevin
• Stephen Richard Teague

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

Operates in: Devon

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

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with TOTNES TRUST.

• TOTNES TRUST income £27k
• TOTNES AND RURAL COMMUNITY TRANSPORT income £98k
• THE NORTH TYNESIDE CARERS CENTRE income £962k
• CARERS TOGETHER IN HAMPSHIRE income £178k
• TOMCHEI CHOLIM (SUPPORTERS OF THE SICK FEEBLE AND FRAIL) TRUST income £155k
• TOFS income £175k

Side by side with its peers

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