Finance Score: 3
Governance Score: 1
Support Score: 6
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +6
Overall GiG Score: 10 ?

CARERS' SUPPORT (BEXLEY) 

Provides respite care at home for carers, enabling a carer to take a break while the person they look after remains in their own home where their usual routines can continue. We also provide support groups, individual emotional support for carers, information about services that can help and a welfare benefits advice service including help with completing claim forms.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has a robust balance sheet
  • Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age
Established: 25 years

www.carerssupport.org

info@carerssupport.org

02083028011

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£670£627£42£0£716£71613.73550
31/03/22£485£396£89n/an/an/an/an/a61
31/03/21£450£321£129n/an/an/an/an/a54
31/03/20£426£392£34n/an/an/an/an/a74
31/03/19£428£390£38n/an/an/an/an/a71
31/03/18£403£405£-1£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£453£385£68£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£420£383£38£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£433£379£55£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£401£410£-9£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£397£391£6£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£406£371£35£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£453£407£46£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£444£423£22£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09£447£424£23£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£350£343£7£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/07*£360£353£8£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£334£309£25£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£298£279£19£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£230£234£-4£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 2%
Liabilities/Income: 2%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 100%
Reserves/Spending: 13.7 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 14 months
Quick Ratio: 50.8
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Disability
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Bexley, Greenwich,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People With Disabilities
Who works here?
  • 35 employees
  • 50 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
City Bridge Trust£127,525
Mercer's Charitable Foundation£45,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£10,000
National Lottery Community Fund£2,850
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Jubilee celebration for carers
£2,850 14/04/2022
The funding will be used to host a garden party for unpaid carers/cared for on the 6th of June 2022 celebrating the Queens Platinum Jubilee. The project aims to celebrate and bring together carers as ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Carers Support (Bexley)
£113,500 19/10/2020
36
£113,500 over a further and final two years (£56,500; £57,000) to support the cost of the Service Manager (24hpw); Volunteer accommodation, expenses and training for three volunteers; and ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Carers Support (Bexley)
£14,025 09/04/2020
A one-off, unrestricted grant of £14,025, equivalent to one regular quarterly payment for the organisation's current grant.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 15/11/2019
Carers Breaks Service
Mercer's Charitable Foundation - Grant to Carers Support (Bexley)
£45,000 30/04/2019
36
In Touch - providing emotional support for Carers and those they care for and preventing loneliness and social isolation.
London Catalyst - Carers' Support (Bexley) - 1
£3,000 07/02/2019
Fortnightly Stroke Club
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Carers Support (Bexley)
£166,900 23/11/2017
36
£166,900 over three years (£55,200; £55,600; £56,100) to support the costs of the Service Manager (24hpw), Volunteer accommodation, expenses and training for three volunteers and associated ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Carers' Support (Bexley)
£60,000 10/03/2016
12
towards three years' continuation funding of the salary of a Stroke Carers Support Worker to provide one to one support, information and advice to carers of stroke survivors in the London Borough of ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Carers Support (Bexley)
£3,690 09/09/2015
Towards the costs of developing, piloting and evaluating use of a system of tracking and monitoring outcomes for the individuals the charity supports.
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Carers Support (Bexley)
£11,500 13/03/2014
£11,500 for a third and final year towards the salary of an advice worker and related costs for an advice and advocacy service for people with disabilities and their carers.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Carers' Support (Bexley)
£60,000 14/03/2013
36
towards three years' continuation funding of the running costs of a project in the London Borough of Bexley that provides support to the carers of people recovering from or living with the affects of ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Carers Breaks Scheme
£266,389 19/09/2012
60
An expansion of an existing project, based in the London boroughs of Bexley and Greenwich, which aims to support family carers and those they care for, who may be children, adults or older people ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 59-72
  • NICOLA FRY (Chair) Appointed: 2007, Occupation: Carer
  • TIM DELEE Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Retired
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 03/06/1999, number: 1075801
  • Registered at Companies House on 08/02/1999, number: 03709684
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • 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
  • 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
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR07: 121 days late,
Main office

Carers Support (Bexley)
Wolsley House
Wolsley Close
Crayford
DARTFORD
DA1 4BE

Objectives

TO RELIEVE PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND MATERIAL DISTRESS AMONGST THE CARERS OF PERSONS WHO ARE FRAIL, ELDERLY, DISABLED, OR ADULTS AND CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS WHO LIVE IN THE LONDON BOROUGHS OF BEXLEY AND GREENWICH BY PROVIDING FLEXIBLE HOME-BASED RESPITE CARE, SUPPORT AND INFORMATION FOR SUCH CARERS TO ASSIST THE CARERS AND THEIR DEPENDENT.

Defined Area of Benefit:

BEXLEY AREA

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase
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