AGE UK BRISTOL

Registered charity 1042548 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as AGE CONCERN BRISTOL

Age UK Bristol provides the following services for older people: Information and Advice, Day Services, Going Home from Hospital service, Friends Ageing Better for a range of services to enable social connection an support, Active Ageing Bristol to support people to keep fit and active, and strategic work to enable an age friendly city.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE TO PROMOTE THE FOLLOWING PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC AND/OR OLDER PEOPLE WITHIN THE AREA OF BENEFIT: 1. PREVENTING OR RELIEVING THE POVERTY OF OLDER PEOPLE; 2.ADVANCING EDUCATION 3. PREVENTING OR RELIEVING SICKNESS, DISEASE OR SUFFERING IN OLDER PEOPLE (WHETHER EMOTIONAL, MENTAL OR PHYSICAL); 4.PROMOTING EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY; 5. PROMOTING THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF OLDER PEOPLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS; 6. ASSISTING OLDER PEOPLE IN NEED BY REASON OF ILL-HEALTH, SOCIAL EXCLUSION OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE; AND 7.SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE CHARITY TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE THE OUTCOME OF THIS BEING THE PROMOTION OF THE WELL- BEING OF OLDER PEOPLE.

Area of benefit: BRISTOL.

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

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Registered contact address: Bristol, City of, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £26,742 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £456,042 to £429,300. The trustees confirm that free reserves of £259,566 are within the stated policy target of £150,000 to £300,000, and the auditors found no material uncertainties regarding the organization's ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sumer Auditco Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2021 (received 03/02/2022, 3 days after the 31/01/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02984207

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Age UK Bristol (matched by registered charity number).

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• BICKERTON, Ian Mcdowell — director, appointed 12/01/2026on trustee list
• BROOKES, Julian Michael — director, appointed 27/03/2025on trustee list
• MILLAR, Rachel Susan — director, appointed 31/01/2024on trustee list
• GORDON, Yvonne Marie — director, appointed 25/11/2021on trustee list
• SUTTON, Joanna — director, appointed 26/11/2020on trustee list
• BROWN, Judith Irene — director, appointed 24/09/2020on trustee list
• MALPASS, Mina Elizabeth — director, appointed 27/08/2015on trustee list

Official officers record.

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 1.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (12/05/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (11/01/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ian McDowell Bickerton
• JULIAN BROOKES
• Joanna Sutton
• Joanne Elizabeth Dawson Furney
• Judith Irene Brown
• Mina Elizabeth Malpass
• Rachel Millar
• Richard Booty

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

Operates in: Bristol City

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with AGE UK OXFORDSHIRE.

• AGE UK OXFORDSHIRE income £6.5m
• AGE UK NORTH CRAVEN income £479k
• AGE UK BIRMINGHAM LIMITED income £1.7m
• Age UK York income £1.9m
• AGE UK KENSINGTON AND CHELSEA income £2.9m
• AGE UK income £131.8m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.