Age UK West Sussex, Brighton & Hove
Registered charity 1086323 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as AGE CONCERN WEST SUSSEX, AGE UK WEST SUSSEX, Age UK West Sussex, Brighton and Hove
The charity runs Activity Centres, Community Clubs and activities, Information and Advice Services, including home visits and a money advice service; Help at Home Services; Home from Hospital Support, Hospital Take Home & Settle, and Relative Support services, Community Support projects, Social Prescribing, Wellbeing projects throughout West Sussex, and Carer Support Services.
Objects
3. The Organisation is established : 3.1 To promote and develop services for older people in any manner which now or hereafter may be deemed by law to be charitable in and round West Sussex or such other areas as the trustees shall determine from time to time (for the avoidance of doubt this shall include the areas of Portslade, Brighton and Hove) (hereinafter called “the area of benefit”)3.2 To provide or assist in the provision of facilities in the interest of social welfare for recreation, community participation or other leisure time occupation of individuals who have use of such facilities by reason of their age, infirmity or disability, financial hardship or social circumstances with the object of improving conditions of life in the community at large.
Area of benefit: WEST SUSSEX
The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.
Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Recreation · website · Get email alerts
Registered contact address: Arun, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)
Received the assets of:
Source: Charity Commission register of merged charities (OGL v3.0).
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity supported over 12,000 people directly and unlocked more than £4.4 million in benefits and grants. The trustees report that the organization introduced new services, including a dementia clinic and care-at-home services, to meet growing needs. The filing indicates a focus on increasing income sources to ensure future stability.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Accounts audited. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.
In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Financial Conduct Authority. 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
- 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
- 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)
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Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2025
- Volunteers: 225
- Government income: £2,718,590 — contracts £2,373,150 (23), grants £345,440 (7); 53% of the £5,147,866 total gross income on the same return
- Employees paid over £60,000: 3 (£60,001–£70,000: 2; £90,001–£100,000: 1)
- Has a trading subsidiary
Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2024
- Volunteers: 220
- Government income: £2,206,368 — contracts £2,031,007 (23), grants £175,361 (7); 44% of the £5,025,192 total gross income on the same return
- Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (£80,001–£90,000: 1)
- Has a trading subsidiary
Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2023
- Volunteers: 250
- Government income: £2,185,378 — contracts £1,923,357 (18), grants £262,021 (8); 50% of the £4,399,499 total gross income on the same return
- Employees paid over £60,000: 2 (£60,001–£70,000: 1; £80,001–£90,000: 1)
- Has a trading subsidiary
Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.
In the news
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Corporate structure
Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Age UK West Sussex, Brighton and Hove (matched by registered charity number).
Leadership, per the charity’s website
- Alison Shea Mohammed — Chair (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.
- TICKNER, Graeme David — director, appointed 22/10/2025on trustee list
- JARVIS, Jessica — director, appointed 22/10/2025on trustee list
- LEE, Valerie — director, appointed 22/10/2025on trustee list
- MARDLIN, Stephen Andrew — director, appointed 22/10/2025on trustee list
- MOHAMMED, Alison Shea — director, appointed 26/09/2024on trustee list
- ROSSER, Jonathan Howe — director, appointed 26/09/2024on trustee list
- JONES, Glynn, Dr — director, appointed 26/09/2024on trustee list
- LAMOND, Jill Caroline — director, appointed 26/09/2024on trustee list
- WATSON, Sarah — director, appointed 31/10/2023on trustee list
- RICE, Helen Laura — secretary, appointed 01/03/2019
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 West Sussex, Brighton & Hove — Deregistered, 1 registered location, last inspected 14/06/2022.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record
Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram · linkedin
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)
Cost of raising funds
£108
Reported reserves equal ~1.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).
Register events
- Received assets from another charity (05/04/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Received assets from another charity (02/02/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Received assets from another charity (03/12/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Alison Mohammedchair
- Dr Glynn Jones · trustee of 1 other charity
- Graeme David Tickner
- Jessica Jarvis
- Jill Lamond
- Jonathan Rosser · trustee of 1 other charity
- Sarah Watson
- Stephen Andrew Mardlin
- Valerie Lee
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Brighton And Hove · West Sussex
Income and spending
Common questions
Is Age UK West Sussex, Brighton & Hove financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity supported over 12,000 people directly and unlocked more than £4.4 million in benefits and grants. The trustees report that the organization introduced new services, including a dementia clinic and care-at-home services, to meet growing needs. The filing indicates a focus on increasing income sources to ensure future stability. Its FY2025 accounts were audited.
Who funds Age UK West Sussex, Brighton & Hove?
Funders whose own accounts filings name Age UK West Sussex, Brighton & Hove as a grant recipient include AGE UK, The Patricia Routledge Foundation, THE LAWSON TRUST CIO, SKIPTON BUILDING SOCIETY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION, GATWICK AIRPORT COMMUNITY TRUST.
Known funders
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Government & lottery funding
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