AGE CONCERN ISLINGTON

Registered charity 1045623 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as AGE UK ISLINGTON

Age Concern Islington works with local older people to give relief, support, and help to those in need, and also provides activities and opportunities to help local older people stay fit, active, and fulfilled. To provide these services and opportunities, we welcome funding through contractual services, or from charitable trusts, statutory sector grants, lottery, or other grants or donations.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£2.2m
Latest spending
£2.1m
Registered
1995
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £107,112 for the year, with unrestricted reserves totaling £1,339,611. The trustees confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern, citing secure medium-term funding and adaptable service delivery. General reserves of £705,111 are held within the policy target range of £450,000 to £675,000.

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

What the accounts disclose

Trading subsidiary: Islington Age Concern Trading Company Ltd
“Our subsidiary trading company, Islington Age Concern Trading Company, which provided consultancy and support services for other charities in data management and service redesign, operating under the trading name Outcomes Plus, is now dormant” — page 21
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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

Total income
£2.2m
Total spending
£2.1m
Cost of raising funds
£9k
Reserves (reported)
£705k
Employees
43

Reported reserves equal ~4.1 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (94% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

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Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Islington

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£2.2m£2.1m
31/03/2024£2.2m£2.1m
31/03/2023£1.8m£1.7m
31/03/2022£1.5m£1.3m
31/03/2021£1.5m£1.3m

Common questions

Is AGE CONCERN ISLINGTON financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £107,112 for the year, with unrestricted reserves totaling £1,339,611. The trustees confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern, citing secure medium-term funding and adaptable service delivery. General reserves of £705,111 are held within the policy target range of £450,000 to £675,000. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Sayer Vincent LLP.

Who funds AGE CONCERN ISLINGTON?

Funders whose own accounts filings name AGE CONCERN ISLINGTON as a grant recipient include CHARITY OF RICHARD CLOUDESLEY, CRIPPLEGATE FOUNDATION.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
CHARITY OF RICHARD CLOUDESLEYFY2023£20kCloudesley Partners Grant
CHARITY OF RICHARD CLOUDESLEYFY2025£13kCloudesley Partner Grant
CHARITY OF RICHARD CLOUDESLEYFY2022£10kHealth and Welfare - Catalyst Programme
CHARITY OF RICHARD CLOUDESLEYFY2024£10kHealth and Welfare Grant (via Catalyst)
CRIPPLEGATE FOUNDATIONFY2023£10kIslington Giving Crisis Appeal Grants
CHARITY OF RICHARD CLOUDESLEYFY2024£9kHealth and Welfare Grant (via Partners)
CHARITY OF RICHARD CLOUDESLEYFY2023£9kOlder & Disabled People Grant
CRIPPLEGATE FOUNDATIONFY2022£5kFinancial inclusion and capability
CHARITY OF RICHARD CLOUDESLEYFY2022£5kHealth and Welfare - Cloudesley Partners
CRIPPLEGATE FOUNDATIONFY2023£450Islington Giving Make it Happen Fund Grants
CHARITY OF RICHARD CLOUDESLEYFY2024£0Health and Welfare Grant

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund12/02/2026£19kOutreach Advice
The National Lottery Community Fund15/03/2024£20kIslington Befriending
The National Lottery Heritage Fund10/05/2017£10k"Lost Trades of Islington"
City Bridge Foundation26/11/2015£20kGrant to Age UK Islington
The National Lottery Community Fund08/03/2005£118kExcluded Older People Service
The National Lottery Community Fund11/05/2004£150kVoice and Choice Project

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with AGE CONCERN ISLE OF WIGHT.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
AGE CONCERN ISLINGTON£2.2m——unclear—no doubt
AGE CONCERN ISLE OF WIGHT FY2025£1.3m—0above—no doubt
AGE UK LONDON FY2026£119k—0unclear77.2%no doubt
AGE CONCERN VOLUNTARY ASSOCIATION FOR THE ELDERLY MERSTHAM, REDHILL AND REIGATE FY2025£183k—0above—no doubt
AGE CONCERN IN CORNWALL AND THE ISLES OF SCILLY FY2025£4.7m—0below—no doubt
AGE CONCERN LIVERPOOL & SEFTON FY2025£2.2m——within—no doubt

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