AGE CONCERN DURHAM COUNTY

Registered charity 1122008 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as AGE UK COUNTY DURHAM

Provision of services and activities to promote the wellbeing of all older people mainly in and around County Durham and help make later life a fulfilling and enjoyable experience.

Objects

4 THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE CHARITY (THE ¶OBJECTS÷) IS ESTABLISHED AND TO WHICH IT IS SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED ARE TO PROMOTE THE FOLLOWING PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC AND/OR OLDER PEOPLE PRINCIPALLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN AND AROUND COUNTY DURHAM ("THE AREA OF BENEFIT"):4.1 PREVENTING OR RELIEVING THE POVERTY OF OLDER PEOPLE;4.2 ADVANCING EDUCATION;4.3 PREVENTING OR RELIEVING SICKNESS, DISEASE OR SUFFERING IN OLDER PEOPLE (WHETHER EMOTIONAL, MENTAL OR PHYSICAL);4.4 PROMOTING EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY;4.5 PROMOTING THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF OLDER PEOPLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS;4.6 ASSISTING OLDER PEOPLE IN NEED BY REASON OF ILL-HEALTH, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, SOCIAL EXCLUSION OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE; AND4.7 SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF OLDER PEOPLE AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDETHE OUTCOME OF THIS BEING THE PROMOTION OF THE WELL-BEING OF OLDER PEOPLE

Area of benefit: COUNTY DURHAM

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that free reserves stood at £1,157,000, which is above the charity's stated policy target of £1,135,000 (equivalent to nine to twelve months of expenditure). The auditors confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate and identified no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue operations.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sumer Auditco Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~10.1 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 18.4% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (01/02/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (17/09/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• David John Laud
• David Joseph Marrin
• Denise Elliott
• Dr Joanne Victoria Ferguson · trustee of 2 other charities
• Emma Elizabeth Curran
• Jeffrey Watson
• Mark Local
• Michael John James Costello

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

Operates in: Durham

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with AGE CONCERN MID MERSEY.

• AGE CONCERN MID MERSEY income £436k
• AGE CONCERN CHESTERFIELD AND DISTRICT income £34k
• AGE CONCERN,TADLEY AND DISTRICT income £23k
• AGE CONCERN GILLINGHAM income £53k
• AGE CONCERN SOLIHULL income £1.9m
• AGE CONCERN EPSOM & EWELL income £119k

Side by side with its peers

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