RESCARE: THE SOCIETY FOR CHILDREN AND ADULTS WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES AND THEIR FAMILIES

Registered charity 1112766 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as RESCARE

Rescare was founded in 1984 being a national charity object to "promote the relief and welfare of children and adults with learning disabilities and their families" run by families for such families aided by many friends, our national office gives information, advice, support with personal contact via welfare service/helpline and represents their best interests at government, ministerial and local

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF AND WELFARE OF CHILDREN AND ADULTS WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES AND THEIR FAMILIES.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED.

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 · Disability · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Trafford, North 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 £10,148 for the year, resulting in a decrease in unrestricted funds from £36,859 to £26,711. Total income of £53,012 was generated primarily from donations and legacies, while total expenditure amounted to £63,160. The trustees confirm that all activities derive from continuing operations, indicating no immediate threat to the charity's viability.

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 4 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05631419

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.

• COLLINS, Maurice — director, appointed 16/02/2024not on trustee list
• BROWN, Ronald Anthony — director, appointed 16/02/2024not on trustee list
• ANDERSON, Harry Robert Arnott — director, appointed 16/02/2024on trustee list
• COLLINS, Paul David — director, appointed 16/02/2024on trustee list
• WILKS, David Robert — director, appointed 08/09/2023on trustee list
• FIELD, Antonia Elizabeth — director, appointed 19/10/2022on trustee list
• BENNETT, Bridget Ann — director, appointed 12/10/2011on trustee list

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• DAVID WILKSchair
• Antonia Elizabeth Field
• BRIDGET ANN BENNETT
• Harry Anderson
• Nigel Paice
• Paul Collins
• Ronald Brown

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

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

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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 REAL CARE LTD.

• REAL CARE LTD income £1.8m
• SUPPORTING PEOPLE ACHIEVING REAL CHOICE income £73k
• PEOPLE IN ACTION income £11.4m
• CARING AND SHARING TRUST income £91k
• WORCESTERSHIRE PARENT AND CARERS' COMMUNITY income £47k
• RESPONSE COMMUNITY PROJECTS (EARLS COURT) LIMITED income £112k

Side by side with its peers

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