ST HELENS AND KNOWSLEY CARING ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 700938 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Providing accommodation, with professional nursing and end of life care, for elderly and frail individuals in Knowsley and surrounding areas. Maintaining dignity, privacy, respect and independence within an environment as near as possible to normal home life. The Charity also provides 11 rehabilitation beds that enable patients to meet their goals and achieve outcomes that is person centred.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£2.8m
Latest spending
£2.9m
Registered
1988
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure deficit of £69,216 for the year ended 31 March 2025, reducing its total funds to £359,339. The trustees consider the charity to be a going concern with sufficient financial resources to meet ongoing challenges, noting that future funding from the ICB and Council has been secured for 2025/26.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by C A Hunter Limited. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

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.

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.

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

CQC provider record: St Helens And Knowsley Caring Association — Registered, 1 registered location, 3 regulated activities, last inspected 19/07/2018.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

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

Total income
£2.8m
Total spending
£2.9m
Reserves (reported)
£124k
Employees
89

Reported reserves equal ~0.5 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 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 (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).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Knowsley · St Helens

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£2.8m£2.9m
31/03/2024£2.6m£2.7m
31/03/2023£2.4m£2.4m
31/03/2022£2.5m£2.4m
31/03/2021£2.2m£2.2m

Common questions

Is ST HELENS AND KNOWSLEY CARING ASSOCIATION financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure deficit of £69,216 for the year ended 31 March 2025, reducing its total funds to £359,339. The trustees consider the charity to be a going concern with sufficient financial resources to meet ongoing challenges, noting that future funding from the ICB and Council has been secured for 2025/26. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by C A Hunter Limited.

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 ST MARYS CARE CENTRE.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
ST HELENS AND KNOWSLEY CARING ASSOCIATION£2.8m——unclear—no doubt
ST MARYS CARE CENTRE FY2025£162k—0unclear—no doubt
THE ROYAL MASONIC BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION CARE COMPANY FY2025£64.6m——unclear—no doubt
THE SOUTHEND ON SEA DARBY AND JOAN ORGANISATION LIMITED FY2025£1.2m—0unclear—no doubt
ST CATHERINE'S HOSPICE LIMITED FY2025£13.3m——unclear24.4%noted
RESPONSE ORGANISATION FY2025£17.0m——below—no doubt

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