CARERS LINK - LANCASHIRE

Registered charity 1156275 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CARERS LINK

Carers Link Lancashire provides support and services to unpaid carers of all ages across East Lancashire-supporting and enabling them to continue to care for family members or friends who are ill, disabled or elderly. Carers Link Lancashire works with carers to empower and enable them to look after their own health and wellbeing.

Objects

TO RELIEVE THOSE WHO ARE ILL, DISABLED, ELDERLY OR OTHERWISE HANDICAPPED LIVING IN HYNDBURN,RIBBLE VALLEY AND AREAS OF LANCASHIRE BY THE PROVISION OF INFORMATION, TRAINING AND SUPPORT FOR THEIR CARERS; AND TO RAISE PUBLIC AWARENESS IN ALL ASPECTS RELATING TO CARERS AND CARING'.

Area of benefit: LIVING IN HYNDBURN,RIBBLE VALLEY AND AREAS OF LANCASHIRE

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Disability · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Hyndburn, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated total income of £1,293,275, with 77% derived from a single government contract with Lancashire County Council. Free unrestricted reserves stood at £344,799, which the trustees report represents 3.1 months of budgeted recurrent expenditure, thereby meeting their stated policy of maintaining at least three months of expenditure. The auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by MHA. 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
• 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 Link Lancashire (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Lancashire County Council — “In our current financial year 2024/25 these are our amazing funders: Lancashire County Council” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (3 freehold); recorded price paid £417k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.4 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (83% 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: 12.8% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (20/01/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Gilbert
• BRIAN BIRTLE
• Brian Ozenbrook
• Councillor Barbara Ashworth · trustee of 1 other charity
• Councillor Daniel Cassidy
• Jeff Leahy
• Melissa Fisher · trustee of 1 other charity
• Mohammed Mustafa
• Patricia Ahmed
• Susan Bibby

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

Operates in: Lancashire

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 CARERS TRUST.

• CARERS TRUST income £13.0m
• Carers Plus Yorkshire Ltd income £1.3m
• CARER SUPPORT WILTSHIRE income £852k
• DONCASTER PARTNERSHIP FOR CARERS LTD income £112k
• Carers Choices income £2.1m
• ASSOCIATION OF CARERS income £375k

Side by side with its peers

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