Shaftesbury and District Carers Association

Analysis

Shaftesbury and District Carers Association is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Dorset. It was registered in May 2009, 17 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives, disability and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 06765575). It says it provides services.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Shaftesbury and District Carers Association reported income of £212k and spending of £186k, spending 88% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £213k to £212k (-0.4%), an average of -0.1% a year. Over the whole period it spent 102% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Shaftesbury and District Carers Association sits at the 73rd percentile: it is larger than about 73% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 82nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Home Services Support (£212k), Linc the Leukaemia and Intensive Chemotherapy Fund (£212k) and Friends of Sussex Hospices (£212k).