WESTBANK COMMUNITY HEALTH AND CARE

Registered charity 1119541 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provides care and support to patients and carers.Volunteers provide transport, practical help, befriending. Carer support, advice,access to short breaks for adult and young carers.Day care for older people. Mentoring. Family and childcare activities. Volunteering opportunities. Health improvement and health promotion activities including lifestyle change programmes for long term conditions.

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£4.6m
Latest spending
£4.6m
Registered
2007
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net deficit of £35,656 for the year ended 31 March 2025, compared to a surplus in the prior year, largely due to the loss of a contract. Per the trustees' report, total reserves stood at £2,881,888, with free reserves equivalent to 4.4 months of unrestricted expenditure, which is within the trustees' desired range of 3 to 6 months. The trustees confirm that the charity has adequate resources to continue as a going concern for at least the next 12 months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: 3-6 months of unrestricted expenditure (held: £1.6m)
“The remaining free reserves are equivalent to 4.4 months of unrestricted expenditure which is within the trustees desired range of 3-6 months.” — page 31
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: The Chief Executive, the Finance Director and the Head of Carers are trustees of the charity Seachange Devon (charity number 1196379). During the year, Westbank Community Health and Care performed work to the value of £1,700 for Seachange which has been included in full the accounts to the year ended 31 March 2025 (2024: performed work to the value of £4,410). At the year end, £3,000 was owed from Seachange Devon (2024: £4,669 owed from Seachange Devon).
“The Chief Executive, the Finance Director and the Head of Carers are trustees of the charity Seachange Devon (charity number 1196379). During the year, Westbank Community Health and Care performed work to the value of £1,700 for Seachange which has been included in full the accounts to the year ended 31 March 2025 (2024: performed work to the value of £4,410). At the year end, £3,000 was owed from Seachange Devon (2024: £4,669 owed from Seachange Devon).” — page 59
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Albert Goodman LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Westbank Community Health & Care (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)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (3 freehold). 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 31/03/2025)

Total income
£4.6m
Total spending
£4.6m
Reserves (reported)
£1.6m
Employees
149

Reported reserves equal ~4.2 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (97% 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).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£4.6m£4.6m
31/03/2024£4.6m£4.5m
31/03/2023£4.8m£4.8m
31/03/2022£4.7m£5.0m
31/03/2021£5.3m£5.8m

Common questions

Is WESTBANK COMMUNITY HEALTH AND CARE financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity generated a net deficit of £35,656 for the year ended 31 March 2025, compared to a surplus in the prior year, largely due to the loss of a contract. Per the trustees' report, total reserves stood at £2,881,888, with free reserves equivalent to 4.4 months of unrestricted expenditure, which is within the trustees' desired range of 3 to 6 months. The trustees confirm that the charity has adequate resources to continue as a going concern for at least the next 12 months. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Albert Goodman LLP.

Who funds WESTBANK COMMUNITY HEALTH AND CARE?

Funders whose own accounts filings name WESTBANK COMMUNITY HEALTH AND CARE as a grant recipient include EXETER CHIEFS FOUNDATION, THE DAVID GIBBONS FOUNDATION.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
EXETER CHIEFS FOUNDATIONFY2025£7k
THE DAVID GIBBONS FOUNDATIONFY2025£2k

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund28/10/2022£10kCommunity Teaching Kitchen
UK government09/09/2020£50kCoronavirus Community Support Fund
The National Lottery Community Fund25/07/2019£10kLiving Well with Dementia
UK government01/04/2018£6kCSA Follow on Fund
The National Lottery Community Fund07/09/2016£423kWestbank Healthy Neighbourhoods
The National Lottery Community Fund29/10/2015£86kLiving Well Taking Control – Diabetes Prevention and Treatment SIB
The National Lottery Community Fund21/03/2013£10kWestbank Wellbeing Community Transport Service (WWCTS)
The National Lottery Community Fund11/05/2011£410kWestbank Healthy Communities
UK government—£144kCSA Follow on Fund

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 CARE FOR THE CARERS.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
WESTBANK COMMUNITY HEALTH AND CARE£4.6m——within—no doubt
CARE FOR THE CARERS FY2025£1.7m—0unclear—no doubt
CROSSROADS BRAINTREE AND CHELMSFORD LTD FY2025£236k—0above—no doubt
WARWICKSHIRE YOUNG CARERS FY2025£194k—0above—no doubt
CITY & HACKNEY CARERS CENTRE FY2025£275k—0within—no doubt
ST MARYS CARE CENTRE FY2025£162k—0unclear—no doubt

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