YORK OLDER PEOPLES' ASSEMBLY
To promote any charitable purpose for the benefit of older people within the City of York and its environs. To help represent the views of those people to national and local decision makers. To help those people to know what services and opportunities are available to them. To help to identify the needs and interests of those people not being met by existing services.
Objects
To promote any charitable purpose for the benefit of older people who are in need within the City of York and its environs and in furtherance of the said purposes, but not further or otherwise.(1) To help represent the views of older people in need to decision makers locally and nationally.(2) To help older people in need to know what services and opportunities are available to them and in particular the relief of poverty; the preservation and protection of good health; the advancement of education in relation to but not limited to financial, health, housing, social and welfare entitlements and improving conditions of life for older people.(3) To help to identify the needs and interests of older people not being met by existing services and to help to ensure that these needs are met.
Policies the charity declares
- Campaigns and political activity 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
- Paying staff
- Risk management
- Safeguarding policy and procedures
- Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
- Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
- Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
- Trustee expenses policy and procedures
- Volunteer management
Trustees
- David John Laverick
- George Thomas Wood
- Matthew William Knight
- Maureen Elisabeth Wilson
- Maureen O'Hare
- Professor Dianne Marie Willcocks
- Shirley Reed
Income and spending
| Financial year end | Income | Spending |
|---|---|---|
| 31/03/2025 | £16k | £19k |
| 31/03/2024 | £23k | £18k |
| 31/03/2023 | £19k | £13k |
| 31/03/2022 | £10k | £9k |
| 31/03/2021 | £8k | £9k |
Government & lottery funding
| Funder | Date | Amount | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| The National Lottery Community Fund | 17/04/2025 | £20k | Support with Running Costs 2025/26 |
| The National Lottery Community Fund | 28/07/2022 | £6k | Admin Support & IT Equipment |
| City of York Council | — | £3k | YOPA |