Finance Score: -14

Governance Score: 0

Support Score: 5

Accounts overdue -5
Accounts filed more than 5 days late: -4 times
Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
No PartB

Only 4 Trustees: -1
Narrow trustee age band: -2
Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +5

Overall GiG Score: -9

CARERS LEWISHAM

Advice, information, advocacy, case work, counselling, training, breaks and support to people who care unpaid for friends and/or relatives who have long term mental or physical illnesses or disabilities or who are elderly and frail, including support to children with caring responsibilities.

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Positives:

The charity has received backing from a grant maker recently

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

There are only 4 trustees
The Board has little diversity in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Latest accounts are overdue for filing and returns have been filed late on 4 occasions over the last 5 years
Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending

Established: 25 years

www.carerslewisham.org.uk

info@carerslewisham.org.uk

02086998686

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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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
31/03/22	*	£283	£284	£-1	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	10
31/03/21	*	£333	£546	£-213	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	9
31/03/20		£350	£166	£185	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	15
31/03/19	*	£640	£581	£59	£0	£777	£742	15.3	27	20
31/03/18	*	£585	£703	£-118	£4	£718	£707	12.1	27	12
31/03/17		£568	£673	£-105	£2	£836	£830	14.8	19	0
31/03/16		£534	£571	£-38	£3	£259	£184	3.9	17	0
31/03/15		£663	£682	£-19	£64	£297	£250	4.4	17	0
31/03/14		£639	£674	£-34	£68	£233	£175	3.1	11	0
31/03/13		£650	£643	£8	£57	£268	£194	3.6	13	0
31/03/12		£653	£675	£-22	£675	£260	£215	3.8	11	0
31/03/11		£601	£640	£-39	£58	£281	£266	5	12	0
31/03/10		£537	£552	£-15	£552	£321	£8	0.2	8	0
31/03/09		£457	£546	£-88	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/08		£503	£550	£-47	£0	£424	£399	8.7	9	0
31/03/07		£827	£490	£337	£490	£471	£395	9.7	10	0
31/03/06		£500	£454	£47	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05		£419	£419	£0	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04		£402	£412	£-9	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Listed activities

Disability
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives

How it operates

Provides advocacy/advice/information
Provides services

Where it operates

Bexley, Bromley, City Of London, Croydon, Greenwich, Islington, Lambeth, Lewisham, Southwark,

Who it helps

Children/Young People
Elderly/Old People
Other Defined Groups
People With Disabilities

Who works here?

Unknown number of employees
10 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.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Young Carers Service - Carers Lewisham
£142,160	12/10/2021	The project is using funding to support the delivery of their Young Carers Programme (YCP) in Lewisham by increasing the weekly support provided such as after school clubs and drop ins as well as ....more The project is using funding to support the delivery of their Young Carers Programme (YCP) in Lewisham by increasing the weekly support provided such as after school clubs and drop ins as well as hosting appropriate support workshops. The funding will also allow the group to continue to offer trips during school holidays and residential trips in the summer.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Carers Lewisham
£10,510	19/11/2018	We want to develop a respite service to offer Lewisham carers a break from caring, reducing social isolation and the risk of crisis.
National Lottery Community Fund - Minding a Caring Mind
£10,000	14/09/2018 12	The project aims to improve the mental health and wellbeing of carers by providing mindfulness training sessions.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Carers Lewisham
£120,000	17/10/2017 36	This project will provide intensive 1:1 emotional and practical support for young carers in Lewisham with the greatest needs. The project will help young people to access support services, improve ....more This project will provide intensive 1:1 emotional and practical support for young carers in Lewisham with the greatest needs. The project will help young people to access support services, improve health and wellbeing and empower young people.
Sport England - Carers Lewisham Exercise Classes
£10,000	18/07/2017 12	Funding under Sport England's Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled 'Carers Lewisham Exercise Classes'. This project lists its main activity as Exercise & Fitness.
Sport England - Carers Lewisham Exercise Classes
£10,000	18/07/2017 11	Funding under Sport England's Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled Carers Lewisham Exercise Classes. This project lists its main activity as Exercise & Fitness
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Carers Lewisham
£107,300	12/09/2012 36	towards three years' running costs of a young carers project in the London Borough of Lewisham, including the salary of a new Young Carers Officer

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How is it governed?

Trustees (4)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 71-83

DR NICHOLAS BETHELL HERVEY Appointed: 2014, Occupation: Retired, Other trusteeship: THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST. ALFEGE, GREENWICH,

JACQUI COOK, Occupation: Carer

JACK RILEY Appointed: 2019, Other trusteeships: THE FRIENDS OF UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LEWISHAM, LEWISHAM TALKING NEWSPAPER,

VAL FULCHER Appointed: 2004, Occupation: None, Other trusteeship: THE FRIENDS OF UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LEWISHAM,

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 28/01/1999, number: 1073592
Registered at Companies House on 10/12/1998, number: 03681548

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Complaints handling
Conflicting interests
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Volunteer management

Filing Record

19 returns made; AR22: 133 days late, AR21: 190 days late, AR19: 24 days late, AR18: 84 days late,

Main office

LEWISHAM CARERS CENTRE
WALDRAM PLACE
FOREST HILL
LONDON
SE23 2LB

Objectives

(I) TO ALLEVIATE THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE AMONGST PEOPLE WHO ARE CARING OR WHO HAVE CARED FOR ELDERLY, SICK, DISABLED, HANDICAPPED OR OTHERWISE INFIRM PERSONS AT HOME HEREINAFTER CALLED CARERS AND WHO ARE IN NECESSITOUS CIRCUMSTANCES AND OF DEPENDANTS OF CARERS BEING DEPENDANTS WHO ARE THEMSELVES IN NECESSITOUS CIRCUMSTANCES.(II) 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 HANDICAP INCLUDING MENTAL ILLNESS ATTRIBUTABLE TO CARING AMONGST CARERS AND THOSE PERSONS FOR WHOM THEY ARE CARING.(III) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION CONCERNING CARING AMONGST CARERS AND THE PUBLIC.PROVIDED THAT THE CARERS OR THOSE PERSONS WHOM CARERS ARE CARING RESIDE OR WORK IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF LEWISHAM.

Defined Area of Benefit:

LONDON BOROUGH OF LEWISHAM

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