BRIDGEND CARERS CENTRE

Registered charity 1125921 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Supporting unpaid Carers within the County Borough of Bridgend, we provide information, support, respite and a signposting service.

Objects

1) TO ALLEVIATE THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF CARERS IN NECESSITOUS CIRCUMSTANCES WHO CARE FOR THE SICK , DISABLED, MENTALLY ILL, FRAIL, ELDERLY OR OTHERWISE INFIRM, BY ANY MEANS THAT IS CHARITABLE, WITHIN THE BRIDGEND COUNTY BOROUGH AREA.2) TO PROMOTE AND PROTECT THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OF CARERS BY PROVIDING THEM AND PROFESSIONALS WITH EDUCATION RELATING TO THE NEEDS OF CARERS.

Area of benefit: BRIDGEND COUNTY BOROUGH AREA.

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £109,008 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total funds increasing to £271,705. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £180,853, which is above the estimated requirement of £89,000 needed to cover working capital and potential redundancy costs. The trustees confirmed that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Financial Conduct Authority. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 20/03/2024, 49 days after the 31/01/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05372329

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Bridgend Carers Centre (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).

• Carers Trust — “Short Breaks for Carers with Carers Trust” (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.

• OWEN, Elizabeth — director, appointed 01/11/2023on trustee list
• CLARKE, Carys — director, appointed 20/11/2019on trustee list
• COLMAN, Colette — director, appointed 06/06/2018on trustee list
• DAVIES, Menna — director, appointed 15/04/2005on trustee list
• EVANS, Susan Gail — secretary, appointed 19/05/2005

Official officers record.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (87% 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• COLETTE COLMANchair
• Carys Clarke
• David Gareth Jones
• Elizabeth Owen
• MENNA DAVIES
• Wendy June Rogers

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

Operates in: Bridgend · Merthyr Tydfil · Rhondda Cynon Taff

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

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 BRENT CARERS CENTRE.

• BRENT CARERS CENTRE income £794k
• SUNDERLAND CARERS' CENTRE income £794k
• CARERS NORTHUMBERLAND income £468k
• RICHMOND CARERS CENTRE income £999k
• CARERS CENTRE SA LTD income £866k
• TRAFFORD CARERS CENTRE income £681k

Side by side with its peers

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