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CARE ENGLAND

Registered charity 296103 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ENGLISH COMMUNITY CARE ASSOCIATION, I H A, INDEPENDENT HEALTHCARE ASSOCIATION

Care England represents the interests of a substantial percentage of the operators of adult social care services in England providing health and social care services.

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Latest income
£1.2m
Latest spending
£1.1m
Registered
1987
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a surplus of £89,338 and unrestricted reserves of £1,527,283, which exceeds the trustees' policy target of £649,000. The trustees consider the charity to be in a financially stable position with sufficient liquidity to support ongoing operations. The auditors confirmed that there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Highest-paid employee band: £160,001 - £170,000 — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median £70k)
“£160,000 to £169,999 1” — page 20
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Largest income source: Subscriptions (78% of income)
“Subscriptions 951,323” — page 19
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Reserves policy: seven months of the average monthly unrestricted expenses over the last 2 years (held: £1.5m)
“the trustees have increased the minimum reserves from six to seven months of the average monthly unrestricted expenses over the last 2 years. For 2025, the required amount is £649,000” — page 6
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Trustees are directors of member companies; transactions are at arm's length with no benefit to trustees.
“All transactions between the various organisations and Care England are at arm’s length and are on the same basis for all members. None of the trustees of Care England or the companies and associations that they represent receives any benefit from these arrangements.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Johnsons Chartered Accountants. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

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.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Total income
£1.2m
Total spending
£1.1m
Cost of raising funds
£9k
Reserves (reported)
£1.5m
Employees
12

Reported reserves equal ~16.4 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 (91% 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: 0.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/12/2025£1.2m£1.1m
31/12/2024£1.2m£1.1m
31/12/2023£997k£991k
31/12/2022£1.0m£1.0m
31/12/2021£874k£932k

Common questions

Is CARE ENGLAND financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a surplus of £89,338 and unrestricted reserves of £1,527,283, which exceeds the trustees' policy target of £649,000. The trustees consider the charity to be in a financially stable position with sufficient liquidity to support ongoing operations. The auditors confirmed that there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Johnsons Chartered Accountants.

What does the highest-paid employee of CARE ENGLAND earn?

Per its FY2025 accounts, the highest-paid employee was in the £160,001 - £170,000 band.

Who funds CARE ENGLAND?

Funders whose own accounts filings name CARE ENGLAND as a grant recipient include HALLMARK CARE HOMES FOUNDATION.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
HALLMARK CARE HOMES FOUNDATIONFY2023£50k
HALLMARK CARE HOMES FOUNDATIONFY2021£10k

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
CARERS TRUST2£326k
VEG TRUST INCORPORATING THE MATTHEW EYTON ANIMAL WELFARE TRUST2£115k
THE TRIANGLE TRUST 1949 FUND2£33k
THE MICHAEL MARSH CHARITABLE TRUST2£11k
THE FIDELITY UK FOUNDATION1£550k
THE PEARS FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION1£210k
LLOYDS BANK FOUNDATION FOR ENGLAND & WALES1£150k
THE DULVERTON TRUST1£105k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HEART OF ENGLAND MENCAP.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
CARE ENGLAND£1.2m£160,001 - £170,000—above—no doubt
HEART OF ENGLAND MENCAP FY2025£7.2m——unclear—no doubt
CARE (CHRISTIAN ACTION RESEARCH AND EDUCATION) FY2025£2.3m——unclear—no doubt
CARERS TRUST HEART OF ENGLAND FY2025£2.7m——within—no doubt
CARERS UK FY2025£4.8m——above—no doubt
Care Rights UK: your care champion FY2025£139k—0unclear—no doubt

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