CARERS' SUPPORT EAST KENT

Registered charity 1136904 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CARERS' SUPPORT - CANTERBURY,DOVER & THANET, CARERS' SUPPORT - DOVER DISTRICT & THANET, CSDD&T

We will be the main contact for Carers' in East Kent, providing emotional support, information advice and guidance, training, advocacy and forums. We will work to promote the needs of Carers to Statutory Agencies, Voluntary Organisations and the wider public.

Objects

TO RELIEVE THOSE WHO CARE UNPAID FOR ADULTS OR CHILDREN WITH A PHYSICAL, LEARNING OR MENTAL DISABILITY, BY PROVISION OF EMOTIONAL SUPPORT, INFORMATION AND ADVICE, TRAINING AND ADVOCACY SERVICES, AND TO RELIEVE THOSE IN KENT AREA WHO HAVE A PHYSICAL, LEARNING OR A MENTAL DISABILITY BY PROVISION OF SUPPORT SERVICES TO MEET THEIR NEEDS.

Area of benefit: KENT

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

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

Registered contact address: Canterbury, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a small overall surplus of £3,216 for the year, driven by a restricted surplus that offset an unrestricted deficit. Unrestricted reserves stood at £1,111,983, which the trustees note is covered by general funds and exceeds their stated policy target of three to six months' core expenditure (approximately £450,000 to £900,000). The charity maintains adequate resources to continue in operational existence, with no material uncertainties identified regarding its going concern status.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Kreston Reeves Audit LLP. 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
• 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 31/03/2021 (received 16/08/2022, 197 days after the 31/01/2022 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.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Charles Traylen — Chair of Trustees (source)

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.

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~4.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (91% 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (15/03/2011) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Charles Traylenchair
• Anthony Blackman · trustee of 4 other charities
• Anthony Ullman
• Cheryl Ramsay
• Helen Stanley
• Kaye Draper
• Malcolm Frier

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

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

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 CARERS TRUST.

• CARERS TRUST income £13.0m
• BRENT CARERS CENTRE income £794k
• Carers Plus Yorkshire Ltd income £1.3m
• CARERS FEDERATION LTD income £1.6m
• ENFIELD CARERS CENTRE income £1.5m
• BARNET CARERS CENTRE income £1.8m

Side by side with its peers

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