THE SURREY CARE TRUST

Registered charity 285543 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Our mission is to tackle disadvantage, social exclusion and hardship in local communities and help people improve their life chances. We reach out to people to equip them with skills to improve their economic situation, to reduce their social isolation and to convince them that they have a valuable contribution to make to society.

Objects

(A) THE RELIEF OF SOCIAL DEPRIVATION AMONG PERSONS DISPLAYING THE CONSEQUENCES OF ANY OF THE FACTORS SET OUT IN THIS CLAUSE 3 I) TO VIII) BELOW AND THE FAMILIES OF SUCH PERSONS (BEING IN NECESSITOUS CIRCUMSTANCES) IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUST THINKS FIT, INCLUDING, BUT NO LIMITED TO, TACKLING THE POSSIBLE CAUSES OF SOCIAL DEPRIVATION; (B) PROVIDING AND/OR PROMOTING EDUCATION AND/OR TRAINING AMONG PERSONS WHO ARE DISPLAYING THE CONSEQUENCES OF SOCIAL DEPRIVATION , THE FAMILIES OF SUCH PERSONS AND/OR THOSE PERSONS WHO, IN THE OPINION OF THE TRUST, ARE LIKELY TO BENEFIT FROM SUCH EDUCATION AND/OR TRAINING; (C) FURTHERING AND PROMOTING THE STUDY OF AND RESEARCH INTO ALL ASPECTS AND METHODS OF RELIEVING SOCIAL DEPRIVATION; (D) OBTAINING AND MAKING RECORDS OF AND DISSEMINATING INFORMATION CONCERNING THE SAME; AND (E) THE PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION OF THE ENVIRONMENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY (I) THE PROVISION, MAINTENANCE OR IMPROVEMENT OF A PUBLIC PARK ; OR (II) THE PROVISION OF SOME OTHER PUBLIC AMENITY IN THE VICINITY OF A LANDFILL SITE PROVIDED THAT ANY PUBLIC PARK OR PUBLIC AMENITY PROVIDED, MAINTAINED OR IMPROVED BY VIRTUE OF THIS CLAUSE SHALL NOT BE OPERATED FOR PROFIT.

Area of benefit: ADMIN BOUNDARY OF THE SURREY PROBATION AND AFTERCARE SERVICE

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves increased to £1,032,388, up from £829,492 in the prior year, supported by a net income of £202,896. The charity reports adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, with no material uncertainties identified regarding its going concern status.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Warner Wilde Limited. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or 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
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01658859

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Surrey Care Trust (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• BARNES, Martin David — director, appointed 11/08/2025on trustee list
• CATER, Tracey — director, appointed 21/10/2024on trustee list
• PAYNE, Natalie Eleanor — director, appointed 11/09/2023on trustee list
• DOWNES, Paul William Edwin — director, appointed 24/07/2020on trustee list
• SEARLE, Ronald Graham — director, appointed 01/03/2018not on trustee list
• WINTER STUART, Vivienne Laura — director, appointed 01/01/2018not on trustee list
• CHAPLIN, John Paul — director, appointed 01/01/2018on trustee list
• OSBORNE, Philip Charles — director, appointed 01/11/2016on trustee list

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~4.2 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 9.5% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/02/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• JOHN CHAPLIN · trustee of 1 other charity
• KARI PRIDDEN · trustee of 1 other charity
• MR R SEARLE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Martin Barnes · trustee of 1 other charity
• Natalie Eleanor Payne · trustee of 1 other charity
• PHILIP OSBORNE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Paul Downes
• Tracey Cater
• VIVIENNE WINTER STUART · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Surrey

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.

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 SURREY COMMUNITY ACTION.

• SURREY COMMUNITY ACTION income £695k
• Royal Surrey Charity income £1.6m
• The Surrey Wellbeing Partnership income £7.4m
• THE HARLEY JAE TRUST income £57k
• THE SF CHARITABLE TRUST income £113k
• THE CHERUBY TRUST income £207k

Side by side with its peers

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