Age UK Newcastle and North Tyneside

Registered charity 1049527 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as AGE CONCERN (NORTH TYNESIDE), AGE CONCERN (NORTH TYNESIDE) LTD, AGE CONCERN NORTH TYNESIDE, AGE UK NORTH TYNESIDE

To improve the quality of life for older people

Objects

The Objects for which the Company is established are: to promote the relief of older people in any manner which now or hereafter maybe deemed by law to be charitable and where it is deemed necessary to meet the needs of such persons shall include assistance to their families and carers. Such promotion shall be principally but not exclusively in Newcastle and North Tyneside (hereinafter “the area of benefit”).

Area of benefit: DISTRICT OF NORTH TYNESIDE

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: North Tyneside, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Group reported an operating surplus of £104k for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total incoming resources increasing to £10.3m. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted cash reserves of £1.5m exceed the stated policy target of £1m, and the organisation projects a surplus for the following year.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Robson Laidler Accountants Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01763579
• Trading subsidiary: EVERYDAY CARE & SUPPORT LTD Companies House 07739755
• Trading subsidiary: EVERYDAY HOMES LTD Companies House 11838932 · Financial health read from its filings

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Alyson Scurfield — Chair of our Board of Trustees (source)

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.

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.

• YOUNG-MURPHY, Lesley Carol, Dr — director, appointed 08/01/2026on trustee list
• HANDA, Rishi Kumar — director, appointed 13/11/2025on trustee list
• MCNALLY, Dawn — director, appointed 20/09/2025on trustee list
• REDSHAW, Rachel Munro — director, appointed 23/08/2024on trustee list
• BROWN, Robert — director, appointed 09/04/2024on trustee list
• ROWELL, Michelle Louise — director, appointed 17/11/2023on trustee list
• GILDER, Lee Jon — director, appointed 16/03/2023on trustee list
• COTTON, Mark — director, appointed 02/09/2021on trustee list
• SCURFIELD, Alyson Lynn — director, appointed 14/06/2019on trustee list
• SWAN, Christopher Peter Alan — director, appointed 25/10/2017on trustee list
• HARRISON, Tracy — director, appointed 31/03/2015on 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.

CQC provider record: Age UK North Tyneside — Deregistered, 2 registered locations, last inspected 30/09/2015.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.8 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (77% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (12/06/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alyson Lynn Scurfieldchair
• Dawn McNally · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Lesley Young-Murphy
• Lee Jon Gilder
• Mark Cotton
• Michelle Louise Rowell
• Rachel Redshaw
• Rishi Handa
• Robert Brown
• Tracy Harrison

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

Operates in: North Tyneside

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• Dawn McNally — trustee here and at AGE UK

Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

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

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 UK North Cumbria.

• Age UK North Cumbria income £1.1m
• AGE UK NORTHUMBERLAND income £6.8m
• Age UK Enfield income £2.0m
• AGE UK TORBAY income £869k
• AGE UK TEESSIDE income £693k
• AGE UK BERKSHIRE income £1.3m

Side by side with its peers

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