Avocet Care & Support Ltd

Registered charity 260015 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE ABBEYFIELD (SOUTHEND AND DISTRICT) SOCIETY LIMITED, THE ABBEYFIELD SOUTHEND AND SOUTH EAST ESSEX SOCIETY LIMITED, THE ABBEYFIELD SOUTHEND SOCIETY LI, THE ABBEYFIELD SOUTHEND SOCIETY LIMITED

The provision of Sheltered Housing and Registered Residential Care for the elderly

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £24,747 for the year ended 31 March 2025, a significant improvement from the previous year's deficit of £138,303. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £2,638,129, which is below the stated policy target of growing unrestricted reserves by 5% to 15% of turnover per annum. The charity maintains a strong balance sheet with total net assets of £3,947,529 and no outstanding loans, though it notes a continued downturn in resident numbers at its sheltered housing schemes.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Rickard Luckin Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00956345

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Chief Executive Officer — Chief Executive Officer (source)

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.

• O'SULIVAN, Malachy John — director, appointed 29/11/2023not on trustee list
• CASS, Trevor Norman — director, appointed 25/08/2021not on trustee list
• STEVENSON, Mark Beresford — director, appointed 25/08/2021on trustee list
• CAREY, Ian Philip — director, appointed 23/08/2017not on trustee list
• ROGERS, Michelle Carole — secretary, appointed 30/09/2022

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

CQC provider record: Avocet Care & Support Ltd — Registered, 1 registered location, 1 regulated activity, last inspected 10/10/2022.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~16.1 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Care Quality Commission ratings

CQC inspection ratings for services run by a provider matching this charity’s name (matched by name; verify provider identity on CQC’s site).

• Abbeyfield - St George's House: Good (27/10/2022) · CQC record

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ian Phillip Carey JPchair
• Malachy John O'Sullivan · trustee of 1 other charity
• Mark Stevenson
• ROGER MARTIN NICHOLAS CALTON
• Trevor Norman Cass JP

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

Operates in: Southend-on-sea

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SUTTON AND CHEAM ELDERLY PEOPLE'S HOUSING ASSOCIATION.

• SUTTON AND CHEAM ELDERLY PEOPLE'S HOUSING ASSOCIATION income £1.5m
• Beaconwild Ltd income £2.2m
• THE ABBEYFIELD SANDERSTEAD SOCIETY LIMITED income £147k
• FOREST HILL (SHELTERED) HOUSING LIMITED income £257k
• THE ROYAL MASONIC BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION CARE COMPANY income £64.6m
• THE ABBEYFIELD UXBRIDGE SOCIETY LIMITED income £368k

Side by side with its peers

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