NEWCASTLE CARERS

Registered charity 1145373 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CARERS CENTRE NEWCASTLE

Services for carers include advocacy, counselling, carer support groups, applying for grants, complementary therapies, training, referrals, information giving, future planning, mediation and support.Services are delivered in the way that best suits the individual carer. We also advance education concerning carers among the public, and among private, statutory and voluntary sector organsiations.

Objects

THE CHARITY’S OBJECTS ARE—(A) TO RELIEVE THE CHARITABLE NEEDS OF PEOPLE WHO ARE CARERS IN AND AROUND THE CITY OFNEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, PARTICULARLY THROUGH THE PROVISION OF ADVICE, INFORMATION,ADVOCACY, TRAINING, COUNSELLING, SUPPORT, FRIENDSHIP AND SUCH OTHER ACTIVITIES AS THETRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT;(B) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION CONCERNING CARING AMONGST CARERS, THE PUBLIC, ANDPROFESSIONAL AND STATUTORY AUTHORITIES.

Area of benefit: LOCAL

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: Newcastle upon Tyne, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net expenditure of £102,702 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds. Free reserves stood at £285,149, which is below the trustees' stated policy target of £330,000 (equivalent to four months of budgeted operating costs). The accounts were prepared on a going concern basis, with the auditor confirming no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue operations.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by UNW LLP. Discloses 5 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
• 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 21/02/2024, 21 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.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (62% 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: 0.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Mary Katherine Youngschair
• Amber Jade Jasmine Anderson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Bridget Hamilton
• Bridget Thirsk
• Catherine Winfield · trustee of 3 other charities
• David Wilkinson
• Dean James Phythian
• Rachel Louise Brown
• Rev Lee Batson · trustee of 3 other charities
• Victoria Fleming

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

Operates in: Newcastle Upon Tyne City

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Camden Carers.

• Camden Carers income £1.1m
• SOUTHWARK CARERS income £321k
• CHESHIRE CARERS CENTRE income £694k
• CITIZENS ADVICE IN NORTH & WEST KENT income £2.1m
• BATH AND NORTH EAST SOMERSET CARERS CENTRE income £806k
• THE NORTH TYNESIDE CARERS CENTRE income £962k

Side by side with its peers

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