AGE CONCERN CHIPPING NORTON AREA DAY CENTRE

Registered charity 1000254 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HIGHLANDS DAY CENTRE

To promote the welfare of the disabled and elderly in Chipping Norton and surrounding area. Primarily achieved by the provision of a day centre enabling members to continue within the community

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE WELFARE OF DISABLED AND ELDERLY PEOPLE IN CHIPPING NORTON AND SURROUNDING AREA

Area of benefit: CHIPPING NORTON AND SURROUNDING AREA

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Disability · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: West Oxfordshire, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's unrestricted reserves are £1,051,550, which the trustees confirm has been maintained at a level equivalent to between three and six months' expenditure as per their reserves policy. The charity relies primarily on investment income to cover its costs, having closed its main day centre in 2022, and reports a significant net income surplus for the year largely driven by investment gains.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "within" (FY2025) to "above" (FY2026).

Comparing this charity’s FY2025 and FY2026 accounts as analysed by this site.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Complaints handling
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ALISON DAVIES · trustee of 1 other charity
• Arthur Taylor
• GEORGINA McFADYEN
• Lucia Edwards
• MARTIN JARRATT · trustee of 1 other charity
• Madeleine Rickard

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Oxfordshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with AGE CONCERN BISHOP'S STORTFORD.

• AGE CONCERN BISHOP'S STORTFORD income £212k
• CHIPPING BARNET SENIORS DAY CENTRE income £72k
• AGE CONCERN CHELMSFORD income £57k
• AGE CONCERN CHESTERFIELD AND DISTRICT income £34k
• AGE CONCERN LIVERPOOL & SEFTON income £2.2m
• AGE CONCERN ORPINGTON & DISTRICT income £539k

Side by side with its peers

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