THE CAREERS RESEARCH AND ADVISORY CENTRE (C R A C ) LIMITED

Registered charity 313164 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as C R A C

CRACs aim is to encourage and support career learning and active career development at all ages. We provide inspiration, intelligence and innovation to all those who support career development. CRAC works in partnership with educators, employers and others, sharing knowledge and developing programmes and activities to help people make informed career decisions and manage their careers positively.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves decreased significantly to £620,000 due to a £778,000 exceptional cost for securing an insurance buy-in for a defined benefit pension scheme. Despite this reduction, the charity's reserves policy target of four months of expenditure (approx. £500,000) was comfortably met, and the trustees confirmed adequate resources for going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Peters Elworthy & Moore. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £100,001 - £110,000 (FY2024) to £110,001 - £120,000 (FY2025).

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Clare Viney — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Robin Mellors-Bourne — Director of Research and Intelligence (source)
• Yolana Pringle — Deputy CEO Director of Programmes and Partnerships (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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• British Academy — “CRAC- Vitae has published the Career Tracking of British Academy Funded Early-Career Researchers report, after having been commissioned by t…” (source page)
• Royal Academy of Engineering — “"CRAC has provided valuable insights supporting our activities on diversity and inclusion through research it has conducted for the Royal Ac…” (source page)

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.2 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (86% 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: 1.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Charlotte Mcnichol-Fardon
• David Oswell
• Dr Alexander Hasgall
• Dr Lesley Ann Thompson
• Dr Shewly Choudhury
• Professor Jeremy Sanders
• Professor Roger Whitaker
• Rachel Lambert-Forsyth

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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

Funders of similar charities

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Side by side with its peers

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