CARERS TRUST

Registered charity 1145181 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q7758311 · Wikipedia · also known as ACTION FOR CARERS · also registered in Scotland as SC042870 (OSCR)

Carers Trust works to improve support, services and recognition for anyone living with the challenges of caring, unpaid, for a family member or friend who is ill, frail, disabled or has mental health or addiction problems. With our Network Partners, we aim to ensure that information, advice and practical support are available to all carers across the UK.

Objects

A) THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED BY REASONS OF AGE, ILL HEALTH, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE THROUGH THE PROVISION OF COMPREHENSIVE SUPPORT SERVICES FOR CARERS THROUGHOUT THE UNITED KINGDOM, THE CHANNEL ISLANDS AND THE ISLE OF MAN.B) THE ASSISTANCE OF CARERS IN NEED INCLUDING BY RAISING AWARENESS OF ISSUES AFFECTING CARERSC) THE PROMOTION OF THE EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF CHARITIES WHICH OPERATE FOR THE CARE AND SUPPORT OF CARERS

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

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Registered contact address: Hackney, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity finished the year with a small overall deficit of £46,741, driven by a surplus on unrestricted funds of £408,733 offset by restricted fund deficits. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted free reserves stood at £2,023,000, which is equivalent to six months of budgeted unrestricted expenditure, a level the Board considers appropriate given their new risk-based policy.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Carers Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Advertised salaries (public job ads)

Roles this charity has advertised on CharityJob, matched on the exact employer name. A different source from the statutory pay bands above: these are asking salaries for vacancies, not what anyone was paid.

• Head of People and Inclusion — £63,000 - £67,000 per year · Multiple Locations (Hybrid) · posted 2 days ago (seen 21/10/2026)
• Maternity Cover: Communications and Campaigns Officer — £30,000 - £34,000 per year · Glasgow (Hybrid) · posted 1 day ago (seen 21/10/2026)

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 8.1% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Aneel Kumar Pattni
• Daniel Richard Corry
• Dr Diarmuid McDonnell
• Dr Emma Louise Whitcombe
• Jennifer Clare Downs
• John Robert Walker
• Kathryn Louise Franklin
• MARK VINCENT MAJOR · trustee of 1 other charity
• Mark Robert Llewellyn
• Miriam Jacqueline Martin
• WILLIAM RHYS MOORE

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

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 CARERS UK.

• CARERS UK income £4.7m
• Carers Plus Yorkshire Ltd income £1.3m
• CARE FOR THE CARERS income £1.7m
• CARERS' SUPPORT EAST KENT income £2.1m
• CARERS TRUST HEART OF ENGLAND income £2.7m
• CARERS FEDERATION LTD income £1.6m

Side by side with its peers

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