ESSEX CARERS SUPPORT

Registered charity 1145255 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ECS

SUPPORT, ADVICE, INFORMATION AND ADVOCACY FOR FAMILY CARERS

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

Latest income

£236k

Latest spending

£212k

Registered

2012

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £235,595, which exceeds the trustees' policy target of maintaining reserves sufficient to continue core activity for a minimum of twelve months during unforeseen difficulty. The charity reported a trading surplus of £24,213 for the year, indicating that total income of £235,919 exceeded total expenditure of £211,706.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: a level which ensures that Essex Carers Support core activity could continue for a minimum of twelve months during a period of unforeseen difficulty (held: £236k)

“Reserves be maintained at a level which ensures that Essex Carers Support core activity could continue for a minimum of twelve months during a period of unforeseen difficulty” — page 5

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Related-party transaction: Note 18

“During the year the charity purchased bookkeeping services from Jaygate Management Limited at a cost of £2,400 (2024: £2,160). Jaygate Management Limited is controlled by R Smith, a trustee of the charity.” — page 18

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Register events

Received assets from another charity (10/02/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

BRENDA JOYCE ELLIS
HAYLEY BAIRD
ROBERT WILLIAM SMITH · trustee of 1 other charity
STELLA MAIREAD KERINS
Sheila Hammond

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

Operates in: Essex

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£236k	£212k
31/03/2024	£179k	£123k
31/03/2023	£101k	£133k
31/03/2022	£136k	£131k
31/03/2021	£118k	£72k

Common questions

Is ESSEX CARERS SUPPORT financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £235,595, which exceeds the trustees' policy target of maintaining reserves sufficient to continue core activity for a minimum of twelve months during unforeseen difficulty. The charity reported a trading surplus of £24,213 for the year, indicating that total income of £235,919 exceeded total expenditure of £211,706. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Government & lottery funding

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

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
The National Lottery Community Fund	30/11/2005	£75k	Continuing range of advice and support to carers in Colchester and Braintre