AGE UK SUTTON

Registered charity 1085875 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as AGE CONCERN SUTTON BOROUGH

Age UK Sutton offers a comprehensive portfolio of services for people over 50 who reside in the London Borough of Sutton. Services include Home from Hospital, Community Connections - including combating isolation, wellbeing and activities programmes, digital technology, mental health support, influencing, accessible specialist information, advice and advocacy and Dementia support.

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Latest income
£1.9m
Latest spending
£1.5m
Registered
2001
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £384,609 for the year, driven largely by two legacies totaling £449,956. The trustees note that the level of reserves is significantly in excess of their policy target of four months' operating costs, although they highlight a challenging funding environment and the conclusion of some grants as risks to future sustainability. The charity has no defined-benefit pension deficit on its own balance sheet but is liable for deficit contributions to a multi-employer scheme.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: 4 months operating costs (held: £793k)
“The Trustees have determined that the Charity should hold in a reserve a minimum level of 4 months operating costs” — page 9
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Moore (South) LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

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

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.

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

Total income
£1.9m
Total spending
£1.5m
Cost of raising funds
£40k
Reserves (reported)
£232k
Employees
68

Reported reserves equal ~1.8 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 2.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Sutton

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£1.9m£1.5m
31/03/2024£1.4m£1.4m
31/03/2023£1.6m£1.5m
31/03/2022£1.4m£1.4m
31/03/2021£1.3m£1.3m

Common questions

Is AGE UK SUTTON financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £384,609 for the year, driven largely by two legacies totaling £449,956. The trustees note that the level of reserves is significantly in excess of their policy target of four months' operating costs, although they highlight a challenging funding environment and the conclusion of some grants as risks to future sustainability. The charity has no defined-benefit pension deficit on its own balance sheet but is liable for deficit contributions to a multi-employer scheme. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Moore (South) LLP.

Who funds AGE UK SUTTON?

Funders whose own accounts filings name AGE UK SUTTON as a grant recipient include SIR JULES THORN CHARITABLE TRUST, CHARITY OF SIR RICHARD WHITTINGTON, W G EDWARDS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
SIR JULES THORN CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2023£204kAnn Rylands Small Donations
CHARITY OF SIR RICHARD WHITTINGTONFY2025£40kOlder People & Housing
CHARITY OF SIR RICHARD WHITTINGTONFY2022£33kOlder People & Housing Programme
CHARITY OF SIR RICHARD WHITTINGTONFY2024£27kOlder People & Housing
CHARITY OF SIR RICHARD WHITTINGTONFY2023£25kOlder People & Housing
W G EDWARDS CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONFY2023£2k

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The Mercers' Company04/12/2024£90kGrant to AGE UK Sutton
City Bridge Foundation15/07/2024£167kGrant to Age UK Sutton
The National Lottery Community Fund17/06/2022£10kDementia Wellbeing Support Groups
The Mercers' Company01/12/2021£77kGrant to Age UK Sutton
The National Lottery Community Fund22/11/2021£396kLet's Connect: Bringing People Together
The National Lottery Community Fund14/05/2021£7kWalks for Wellbeing
The Mercers' Company21/04/2020£5kCovid-19 Rapid Response Fund Grant
City Bridge Foundation12/11/2019£57kGrant to Age UK Sutton
The Mercers' Company30/04/2019£50kGrant to AGE UK Sutton
City Bridge Foundation13/05/2015£73kGrant to Age UK Sutton
City Bridge Foundation22/01/2009£126kGrant to Age UK Sutton

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 LEWISHAM AND SOUTHWARK.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
AGE UK SUTTON£1.9m—0above—no doubt
AGE UK LEWISHAM AND SOUTHWARK FY2025£2.6m——above—no doubt
AGE UK SURREY FY2025£2.4m—0unclear—no doubt
AGE UK MERTON FY2025£1.2m——unclear—no doubt
Age UK Maidstone, Sevenoaks and Tonbridge FY2025£1.5m——above—no doubt
AGE UK HILLINGDON, HARROW AND BRENT FY2025£2.9m——unclear—no doubt

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