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Carers UK

Country
Scotland
Charity number
SC039307
Status
Active
Reporting
Up to date Last filed Sept. 30, 2025. Filing history
Registered
Feb. 23, 2008
Legal form
Company (the charity is registered with Companies House)

Address

Address
20 Great Dover Street
London
SE1 4LX

Contact

Website
carersuk.org
Screenshot of the Carers UK website

Activities

'It carries out activities or services itself'

'the advancement of education','the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage'

Beneficiaries: 'Other defined groups'

Objectives: THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE CHARITY IS ESTABLISHED ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AND ARE: 4.1 TO ALLEVIATE THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE AMONGST PEOPLE WHO ARE CARING OR WHO HAVE CARED FOR OLDER, ILL, DISABLED, OR OTHERWISE INFIRM PERSONS (HEREINAFTER CALLED “CARERS”) AND WHO ARE IN, OR RISK FINDING THEMSELVES IN, NECESSITOUS CIRCUMSTANCES, AND OF DEPENDANTS OF CARERS BEING DEPENDANTS WHO ARE THEMSELVES IN NECESSITOUS CIRCUMSTANCES, AND FOR THAT PURPOSE TO PROMOTE THE MATERIAL WELFARE OF SUCH CARERS. 4.2 TO RELIEVE AND ALLEVIATE, AND TO ADVANCE, PROMOTE, ENCOURAGE AND ASSIST IN THE RELIEF OR ALLEVIATION OF ALL KINDS OF MENTAL AND PHYSICAL INFIRMITY, SICKNESS, DISABLEMENT OR ILLNESS INCLUDING MENTAL ILLNESS ATTRIBUTABLE TO CARING, AMONGST CARERS AND THOSE PERSONS FOR WHOM THEY ARE CARING. 4.3 TO ADVANCE EDUCATION CONCERNING CARING AMONGST CARERS AND THE PUBLIC. 4.4 TO PROMOTE SUCH OTHER EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE FOR THE BENEFIT OF CARERS AND THEIR FAMILIES AND DEPENDANTS TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY EACH OF THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES, SCOTLAND AND NORTHERN IRELAND AS APPLICABLE.

Geography

Main operating location
Outwith Scotland
Geographical spread
Scotland and other parts of the UK

Finances

Period end Filed Income Expenditure Employees
March 31, 2025 Sept. 30, 2025On time £4,778,986 £4,804,437 69
March 31, 2024 Sept. 10, 2024On time £4,644,094 £4,965,208 68
March 31, 2023 Aug. 31, 2023On time £4,960,069 £4,951,287 73
March 31, 2022 July 27, 2022On time £4,934,989 £4,700,077 74
March 31, 2021 Oct. 19, 2021On time £4,486,715 £4,036,247 66

Due dates are 9 months after the year end, OSCR's deadline, so they don't allow for any extension OSCR has granted.