Foreword
The CareTech Foundation has been established for five years, and seeks to deliver meaningful impact to communities in the UK and overseas by supporting and championing the social care sector, care workers and those living in care. This impact report details some of the partnerships we’ve been involved with over the preceding few years, and using the lessons learn from measuring and reporting the outcomes achieved, sought new partnerships to increase the breadth and depth of the impact this foundation can have.

One area of significant progress this year is the extent of employee engagement across the business in its Foundation, from support of young people on employability programmes into the care sector, applying for a community or matched funding grant or joining the Foundation for a secondment.

I am delighted that we have been able to support 1.8 million people with 10,346 directly supported this year. This year, after a covid-induced break, I was able to visit a number of our partnership programmes in person and directly see what a difference that can be made to people and organisations.

This year also marks the start of many new partnerships for the CareTech Foundation, building on our core themes of Supporting people with physical & learning disabilities & mental health issues.  Accelerating skills development for people that live and work in the social care sector and Enhancing community engagement. These new partnerships reflect the Foundation’s maturity and our relationships developed within the sector, increasingly focusing our funding on developing new innovations, research and approaches for the social care sector, as well as direct support to people who need it most.

Thank you to all our Trustees and management team, we look forward to working with our partners over the next five years and maximise the difference we can make.

Jonathan Freeman MBE
Chief Executive Officer
CareTech Foundation