Chair of Trustee’s Statement
As we end our first year under the new Strategic Plan, this is a milestone year for us because we completed our first five-year strategy successfully and had a positive year reflecting on achievements and renewing our appetite for what remains to be achieved. As a corporate foundation, we answered many questions and have now begun to find our place in the social care sector.

As this report highlights, since 2017, the Foundation has:

  • supported 1,912,162 beneficiaries through our grant streams, with a total of £5.85M committed to date;
  • supported 4,864 people to gain new qualifications, enabling them to go on to progress as professionals;
  • supported 387 charities through our grant streams, 357 of which were directly through CareTech Ltd staff sponsorship in their local communities or through fundraising efforts;
  • made 1,067 Staff Hardship Grants, totalling £714,223, to help members of staff facing significant financial distress.

 

Thanks to our independent impact research, we know that the difference that these grants are making in the real world is significant and, often, life-changing. Like the transformation of training taking place in Pakistan through MAITS. Or, the new bespoke recruitment pathway for asylum seekers entering the social care workforce with Breaking Barriers. Or, the innovation being generated through the Longitude Prize on Dementia in partnership with Alzheimer’s Society.

This was a pivotal year for the Foundation as we stopped hosting Championing Social Care owing to its growth and popularity. The team and trustees were very pleased to see how well-received Championing Social Care had become and it was appropriate that the initiative be given its independence and space to grow further and for the Foundation to continue delivering its core mission.

The Foundation continues to cement its place as the leading corporate Foundation in the social care sector. The recognition we received in winning the Trustee Board of the Year Award at the Charity Times Awards 2021 and being a finalist in the Charity Business Awards Corporate Foundation of the Year Award 2022, furthers this position.

Lastly, I want to thank our trustees, our staff team and the generosity of our corporate founders at CareTech Ltd. As we close out the first year of delivering our new Strategic Plan I am confident that we will continue to play an important role in championing and supporting the UK social care sector, those who work in the sector and those supported by the sector.

Haroon Sheikh
Chairman

Executive Director’s Statement

This has been a year of big change for the Foundation. Firstly, I would like to sincerely thank Jonathan Freeman MBE for his leadership, vision and inspiration in being the founding CEO of the CareTech Foundation, establishing the Foundation in the charity sector and guiding us towards being a leading corporate foundation in the social care sector.

I would also like to thank the trustees for their faith in me. As Foundation Manager since April 2019, I have been a part of the organisation’s strategic delivery but their belief in me to step up and lead the organisation as we delivered the first year of our second Strategic Plan exemplifies who we are and what we stand for.

Our new Strategic Plan is one of reflection and intention –to future proof our organisation in a changing climate, both politically and socially. As we enter this new phase of delivery, we have taken the lessons of the first five years and through the support and guidance of trustees and stakeholders, focussed on what we want to do more closely. The aims, though the same, have now been defined more clearly and our objectives, nationally and internationally, now bring focus on what we want to achieve and where our impact will be most profound. What we do know is, we are needed, certainly now more than ever!

Our grants streams have continued to increase in demand, our partnerships continue to deliver at an impressive rate and the quality of partners has remained of the highest level. Internationally, we continue to strive towards change that introduces the best of the UK social care sector and domestically our focus remains on addressing the key issues faced by the sector, those in care and carers, both paid and unpaid.

I find it incredibly heartening to see the resilience and strength exhibited by colleagues across the sector. We are incredibly privileged to work with and support people who define their character beginning with ‘empathy’. As we move forward, we want to celebrate the successes but always reflect so our direction remains honest to our core objectives.

Tariq Naseer Raja
Executive Director