CARE4CALAIS

Registered charity 1169048 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also registered in Scotland as SC054294 (OSCR)

Provision of direct aid and social support to displaced people in the UK, Belgium and in France, as well as advocating for a welcoming and inclusive attitude towards refugees in the UK.

Objects

THE RELIEF AND ASSISTANCE OF PEOPLE IN NEED, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY VICTIMS OF WAR, NATURAL DISASTER, TROUBLE OR CATASTROPHE BY SUCH MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE PROVISION OF FOOD, WATER, SHELTER, HEALTHCARE AND LEGAL SUPPORT.

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 · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £434,153 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds to £826,974. The Trustees consider the financial position satisfactory, noting that free reserves of £763,022 represent approximately five months of running costs. The charity relies heavily on public donations and has identified a lack of income diversity as a principal risk.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Azets Audit Services Limited. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2024) to "within" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• 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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~4.9 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (98% 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: 6.2% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (12/02/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Wilfred Hide Sullivanchair
• Dr Wanda Wyporska
• Emma Rose
• James Frederick Nichol
• Kelly McManus-O'Connell
• Matthew Demwell
• Mx Sim Eldem

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

Operates in: Belgium · France · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with 4LOUIS.

• 4LOUIS income £1.3m
• CARE FOR THE CARERS income £1.7m
• REFUGEE COMMUNITY KITCHEN income £493k
• CARE UK Charity income £470k
• EMPOWER4SUCCESS (E4S) income £68k
• COFFEE4CRAIG income £286k

Side by side with its peers

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