Annual Report
2023/24

On behalf of Stirling Carers Centre, it is my great pleasure to present the Annual Report for 2023/24.

The Centre has, once again, seen some very strong service delivery to unpaid Carers in the region, with almost 500 new Carers registered and over 600 Carer Support Plans and Young Carers Statements completed. This has provided essential support against the backdrop of financial pressures adding to the concerns of unpaid Carers over the past year, and I’d like to very much thank everyone who has contributed to that:

• Our staff, who are endlessly cheerful, extremely passionate, and impressively dedicated;
• Our statutory and independent funders, whose support is never taken for granted and critical to the ongoing benefits that the staff bring to the unpaid Carer community;
• And the volunteers that work with us, whom I cannot thank enough.

In the year ahead we are going to experience a deal of change.

Colleen McGregor has recently resigned and left us just this month. I’m extremely grateful to Colleen for all the great work that she did over her (too short) time in the post of CEO; she has left the Centre in a much better place than when she took up that post. As sad as I am to see her leave us, she has a great new role and we all wish her all the very best in it.

We have appointed Keri Moore as interim CEO and are conducting a thorough search open to both internal and external candidates, which we hope to conclude in September or early October at the latest. Our priority, however, is the right candidate, and the Board will take the time needed to ensure that.