About caba
What is caba?
caba is the occupational charity for chartered accountants — for over 130 years it has supported past and present ICAEW members and their families with mental-health support, financial assistance, career coaching and wellbeing services. Based in Rugby, Warwickshire, caba is a white-collar charity workforce of roughly sixty people: wellbeing practitioners, grants and support officers, digital and marketing specialists, and corporate services.
Where will I work?
caba is based in Rugby, with hybrid arrangements across its teams. And the week itself is the headline: caba's own jobs page states, verbatim, "four-day work week — As part of a trial, we currently work Monday to Thursday. Fridays are yours."
⚠ Please note the wording: this is currently a TRIAL. caba describes the Monday-Thursday week as its current working pattern, and we list it on that basis — if the trial ends, this listing will be updated.
What is the caba team like?
A small, purpose-driven charity team — the people whose day job is other people's wellbeing. It shows in how the organisation treats its own staff: the four-day-week trial is the clearest example, applying organisation-wide rather than to a favoured team. As a wellbeing charity for a professional membership, the work is white-collar through and through: advice, casework, programme delivery, digital services and communications.
Work-Life Balance
Monday to Thursday, with Fridays yours — a genuine four-day week during the trial, not compressed hours squeezed into four long days on the published wording. For a charity whose mission is wellbeing, the schedule is the culture statement. Standard charity-sector conditions (pension, annual leave) apply alongside it.
Perks and Benefits
- Four-day work week (trial) — "we currently work Monday to Thursday. Fridays are yours" verbatim on caba's own jobs page
- Hybrid working across teams
- Purpose-driven work — the wellbeing charity for chartered accountants
- UK workplace pension and charity-sector leave provisions
- Small-team breadth — sixty people covering the full charity operation