Real Care Ltd

Analysis

Real Care Ltd is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in County Durham. It was registered in May 2006, 20 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives, disability and arts/culture/heritage/science, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 05296681). It says it provides human resources, provides buildings/facilities/open space and provides services.

In the financial year ending August 2025, Real Care Ltd reported income of £1.8m and spending of £1.6m, spending 90% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to August 2025, income grew from £999k to £1.8m (+78%), an average of +16% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2023, when income rose by 88%. Over the whole period it spent 88% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Real Care Ltd sits at the 93rd percentile: it is larger than about 92% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 96th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Brain Charity (£1.8m), British Society for Immunology (£1.8m) and Human Welfare International Charitable Trust (£1.8m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 98%. Charitable activities took 99% of spending and raising funds 0.0%. Reserves of £934k would cover about 7 months of spending at that rate. It employed 56 people.