NACRO

Registered charity 226171 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE CARE AND RESETTLEMENT OF OFFENDERS

We believe that everyone deserves a good education, a safe place to live and the chance to start again, with support from someone on their side. Our housing, education, justice and health services work alongside people to give them the support and skills they need to succeed. We fight for voices to be heard and campaign to create lasting change.We see your future, whatever the past.

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Latest income
£90.3m
Latest spending
£90.5m
Registered
1964
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that Nacro reported a total comprehensive income surplus of £1.1m for the year ended 31 March 2025, driven by a £1.1m actuarial gain on its pension scheme liabilities. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £11.1m, which is within the charity's stated target range of £12.3m plus or minus 10%. The charity holds £10.9m in liquid cash and has no loan financing facilities in place.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: £12.3m +/- 10% (held: £11.1m)
“The Finance and Audit Committee have reviewed the workings in detail and recommended that a reserves target of £12.3m +/- a range of 10% is appropriate for the Charity as at 31 March 2025. As at 31 March 2025, reserves stood at £11.3m. Reserves are therefore within the target.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

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

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

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.

UK research funding (UKRI Gateway to Research)

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram (1,865 followers)

Advertised salaries (public job ads)

Roles this charity has advertised on CharityJob, matched on the exact employer name. A different source from the statutory pay bands above: these are asking salaries for vacancies, not what anyone was paid.

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

Total income
£90.4m
Total spending
£90.5m
Reserves (reported)
£11.1m
Employees
873

Reported reserves equal ~1.5 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (100% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£90.3m£90.5m
31/03/2024£77.0m£77.3m
31/03/2023£68.7m£69.7m
31/03/2022£66.8m£65.8m
31/03/2021£60.7m£59.0m

Common questions

Is NACRO financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that Nacro reported a total comprehensive income surplus of £1.1m for the year ended 31 March 2025, driven by a £1.1m actuarial gain on its pension scheme liabilities. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £11.1m, which is within the charity's stated target range of £12.3m plus or minus 10%. The charity holds £10.9m in liquid cash and has no loan financing facilities in place. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Crowe U.K. LLP.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
A B Charitable Trust24/04/2025£20kA grant to Nacro
A B Charitable Trust30/01/2024£20kA grant to Nacro
Barrow Cadbury Trust17/07/2023£10kBetter Justice Partnership development project
UK government01/04/2019£21kNacro Homes Agency North Tyneside
UK government24/10/2018£21kNacro Homes Agency North Tyneside
The National Lottery Community Fund20/09/2018£300kSWITCH ? phase 3
The National Lottery Community Fund06/10/2014£495kSWITCH - (Supporting Women in the Community and Home)
The National Lottery Community Fund09/04/2014£5kGhyll Head Residential and Team Building Skills
The National Lottery Heritage Fund30/01/2014£10k"Life of a Roman soldier in Northern England"
The National Lottery Community Fund06/05/2011£1.5mBeyond Youth Custody - Promoting Best Practice
The National Lottery Community Fund09/03/2011£283kThe Power of One Project - Functional Fitness Gym
The National Lottery Community Fund12/01/2011£232k'First Steps'
The National Lottery Heritage Fund28/09/2010£22k"Nacro Young Roots - Rochdale Canal Watch"
The National Lottery Community Fund10/08/2010£403kSWITCH - (Supporting Women in the Community and Home)
The National Lottery Community Fund10/02/2010£178k5 Alive Project
The National Lottery Community Fund02/07/2009£476kSupporting, Enabling, Empowering, Nurturing (S.E.E.N) Young People
The National Lottery Community Fund14/03/2007£269k2gether
The National Lottery Community Fund10/11/2006£7kThe Allesey Old Road Project
The National Lottery Community Fund16/10/2006£150kSheffield Young Peoples Health & Fitness Project
The National Lottery Community Fund21/07/2006£5kRace Meetings
The National Lottery Heritage Fund06/03/2006£25k"Life thru' a Lens"
The National Lottery Community Fund20/12/2004£5kFemale Sports Project
The National Lottery Community Fund11/11/2004£727SCORE
UK government—£41kVirgin Money Foundation North East Fund

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 HACRO.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
NACRO£90.3m——within—no doubt
HACRO FY2025£295k—0unclear—no doubt
THE NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS FY2025£9.5m——above—no doubt
THE CAREERS RESEARCH AND ADVISORY CENTRE (C R A C ) LIMITED FY2025£1.4m£110,001 - £120,000—above—no doubt
NAZARETH CARE CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025£43.3m——below—material uncertainty
ACCURO (CARE SERVICES) FY2025£578k—0unclear—no doubt

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