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CARE & REPAIR CARDIFF AND THE VALE

Registered charity 1162083 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Supporting older people to repair, adapt and maintain their homes.

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Latest income
£3.8m
Latest spending
£3.8m
Registered
2015
Accounts read
FY2023

Financial health, per its FY2023 accounts

The accounts state that the group held unrestricted general reserves of £749,608, which is marginally above the trustees' calculated target of £742,415 needed to manage cash flow and liability risks. The charity reported a net income surplus of £112,791 for the year, with total income of £3,588,097 against total expenditure of £3,475,304. The auditors confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting was appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

Automated summary of the FY2023 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: £742,415 (held: £750k)
“the trustees have developed a reserves policy and have calculated that the charity needs to hold £742,415 in reserves to manage cash flow, continuity and liability risks as well as any emergency expenditure and monies for expansion of services.”
Per its FY2023 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Trading subsidiary: Care & Repair Home Improvement Services Ltd
“The charity has a subsidiary, Care & Repair Home Improvement Services Ltd, company number 10541156, a company limited by guarantee which is incorporated in the UK and based at the same registered office as its parent.” — page 23
Per its FY2023 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Haines Watts Wales LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

CARE & REPAIR HOME IMPROVEMENT SERVICES LTD — per its own Companies House accounts
  • Turnover: £1.6m
  • Profit before tax: £202k
  • Donated/gift-aided to the charity: £202k
  • Creditors include £201,529 owed to group undertakings (2024: £159,831).
“The gift aid payment from the company to its charitable parent, as disclosed in note 8, is treated as a distribution from total equity. The company has a legal obligation to recognise this payment in the year due to a deed of covenant being in place before the year end. Profits donated to the parent charity are paid within nine months after the year end.”

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

Official officers record.

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

Total income
£3.8m
Total spending
£3.8m
Reserves (reported)
£800k
Employees
45

Reported reserves equal ~2.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Cardiff · Vale Of Glamorgan

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£3.8m£3.8m
31/03/2024£3.8m£3.8m
31/03/2023£3.6m£3.5m
31/03/2022£2.5m£2.3m
31/03/2021£2.2m£2.0m

Common questions

Is CARE & REPAIR CARDIFF AND THE VALE financially healthy?

Per its FY2023 accounts: The accounts state that the group held unrestricted general reserves of £749,608, which is marginally above the trustees' calculated target of £742,415 needed to manage cash flow and liability risks. The charity reported a net income surplus of £112,791 for the year, with total income of £3,588,097 against total expenditure of £3,475,304. The auditors confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting was appropriate with no material uncertainties identified. Its FY2023 accounts were audited by Haines Watts Wales LLP.

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.

FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
WALES COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY ACTION1£383k
ASSOCIATION OF NHS CHARITIES1£121k
ETHEL AND GWYNNE MORGAN TRUST1£10k
THE JENOUR FOUNDATION1£6k
THE REED FOUNDATION1£2k
THE MARY HOMFRAY CHARITABLE TRUST1£2k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CARE & REPAIR CYMRU 2015.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
CARE & REPAIR CARDIFF AND THE VALE£3.8m—0unclear—no doubt
CARE & REPAIR CYMRU 2015 FY2025£2.8m——above—no doubt
CARE & REPAIR MONMOUTHSHIRE & TORFAEN LIMITED FY2025£1.5m—0within—no doubt
CARE AND REPAIR WESTERN BAY FY2025£2.8m£60,001 - £70,0001unclear—no doubt
BLAENAU GWENT AND CAERPHILLY CARE & REPAIR FY2025£1.3m—0unclear—no doubt
CARDIFF AND VALE UNIVERSITY LOCAL HEALTH BOARD GENERAL PURPOSE CHARITY FY2025£1.9m—0unclear—no doubt

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