AGE UK HERTFORDSHIRE
Registered charity 1116662 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as AGE CONCERN HERTFORDSHIRE
The object and principal activity of Age UK Hertfordshire is to promote the relief of elderly people in any manner, which now or hereafter may be deemed by law to be charitable in and around Hertfordshire.
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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £439,331 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total reserves increasing to £3,383,831. The trustees confirm that unrestricted general reserves of £2,532,726 are within the stated policy target of 3 to 9 months of organisational expenditure. The financial statements were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified by the auditors.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Reserves policy: three to nine months of organisational expenditure (held: £2.5m)
“The organisation's revised Reserves Policy is to hold between 3 and 9 months of ‘Organisational Expenditure’ as unrestricted general funds.” — page 16
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Pension scheme deficit: £16.1m
“A full actuarial valuation for the scheme was carried out at 30 September 2023. This valuation showed assets of £514.9m, liabilities of £531.0m and a deficit of £16.1m.” — page 40
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts audited by Myers Clark. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.
In the news
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Corporate structure
AGE UK HERTFORDSHIRE TRADING LIMITED — per its own Companies House accounts
- Debtors include £1 owed by group undertakings.
Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Age UK Hertfordshire (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.
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.
- GOULDING, Sylvia — director, appointed 31/03/2026on trustee list
- VAJAI, Dora — director, appointed 31/03/2026on trustee list
- FRANC, Paul Nicholas Dumont — director, appointed 24/11/2023on trustee list
- TATE, Jody Leah — director, appointed 31/01/2023on trustee list
- QUIDDINGTON, Stephen Mark — director, appointed 31/01/2023on trustee list
- WESTAWAY, Linda Elizabeth — director, appointed 31/01/2023on trustee list
- KEMBER, Robin Christopher — director, appointed 25/11/2020on trustee list
- WILES, Jenny — director, appointed 13/11/2019on trustee list
- ELLIS, John — director, appointed 24/10/2017on trustee list
- WILES, Jenny — secretary, appointed 30/09/2020
Official officers record.
Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)
Cost of raising funds
£86k
Reported reserves equal ~6.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (95% 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: 1.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).
Register events
- Received assets from another charity (13/05/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Dora Vajai
- Jenny Wiles
- Jody Leah Tate
- John Ellis
- Linda Elizabeth Westaway
- PAUL NICHOLAS DUMONT FRANC
- Robin Kember
- Stephen Mark Quiddington · trustee of 1 other charity
- Sylvia Goulding
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Hertfordshire
Income and spending
Common questions
Is AGE UK HERTFORDSHIRE financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £439,331 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total reserves increasing to £3,383,831. The trustees confirm that unrestricted general reserves of £2,532,726 are within the stated policy target of 3 to 9 months of organisational expenditure. The financial statements were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified by the auditors. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Myers Clark.
Who funds AGE UK HERTFORDSHIRE?
Funders whose own accounts filings name AGE UK HERTFORDSHIRE as a grant recipient include AGE UK, THE SIMON GIBSON CHARITABLE TRUST, THE TRUEMARK TRUST.
Known funders
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