Evergreen Care UK

Registered charity 1154595 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BEXLEY CHURCHES CARE TRUST, EVERGREEN CARE BEXLEY

We provide compassionate, dignified care to older and vulnerable people, reducing loneliness and supporting independence through trusted relationships. Our services operate in the London Borough of Bexley, Dartford and surrounding areas.

Objects

(I) TO RELIEVE ELDERLY PEOPLE AND VULNERABLE ADULTS RESIDENT IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF BEXLEY AND SURROUNDING AREA WHO ARE IN NEED BY PROVIDING SERVICES AND FACILITIES CALCULATED TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF SUCH PERSONS.(II) TO RELIEVE PEOPLE WHO ARE ELDERLY AND VULNERABLE AND RESIDENT IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF BEXLEY AND SURROUNDING AREA, BY THE PROVISION OF CARERS AND THE PROVISION OF SUPPORT AND TRAINING OF SUCH CARERS.(III)TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE GOOD HEALTH OF ELDERLY PERSONS IN NEED AND VULNERABLE ADULTS IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF BEXLEY AND SURROUNDING AREA THROUGH THE PROVISION OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE, SUPPORT, CARE, EDUCATION AND PRACTICAL ADVICE.(IV) TO PROVIDE AND ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL CIRCUMSTANCE WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.(V) TO PROMOTE SOCIAL INCLUSION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLE OF THE LONDON BOROUGH OF BEXLEY AND SURROUNDING AREA, BY PREVENTING THE ELDERLY AND VULNERABLE FROM BECOMING SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND RELIEVING THE NEEDS OF THOSE ELDERLY AND VULNERABLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED AND ASSISTING THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY.

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 · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a total surplus of £250,317, driven largely by a £200,000 endowment grant, resulting in an underlying operating surplus of £50,317. The trustees report that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for at least 12 months and has maintained financial resilience despite sector-wide pressures. Unrestricted reserves stood at £104,601, which is below the stated policy target of holding between 2 and 12 months of expenditure.

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.

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)

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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 18/02/2022, 18 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.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 1.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Gordon Paul Raggettchair
• Chantelle Callaghan
• DAVID ANTHONY CALLAGHAN
• Elizabeth Hunter
• Ian Sharpe
• Tracy Payne

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

Operates in: Bexley · Greenwich · Kent

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE EVERGREEN CARE TRUST.

• THE EVERGREEN CARE TRUST income £318k
• CARE ENGLAND income £1.2m
• The Wilverley Association, Trading as Everwood Care Charity income £4.5m
• AGE UK BEXLEY income £1.1m
• CARERS CENTRE SA LTD income £866k
• Age UK Enfield income £2.0m

Side by side with its peers

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