Age UK Hythe, Lyminge and Ashford

Registered charity 1125274 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as AGE CONCERN - HYTHE, AGE CONCERN HYTHE AND LYMINGE

Age UK Hythe & Lyminge encourage and enable independence and wellbeing in later life. We aim to reduce social isolation and loneliness, improve the quality of life and reduce financial hardship, services include, 2 course lunch, transport, social opportunities and activities, singing, cooking, walking, exercise, home meals, independent living service, and information and advice and much more.

Objects

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 IN EAST KENT (“THE AREA OF BENEFIT”):4.1 PREVENTING OR RELIEVING THE POVERTY OF OLDER PEOPLE;4.2 PREVENTING OR RELIEVING SICKNESS, DISEASE OR SUFFERING IN OLDER PEOPLE (WHETHER EMOTIONAL, MENTAL OR PHYSICAL);4.3 ASSISTING OLDER PEOPLE IN NEED BY REASON OF ILL-HEALTH, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, SOCIAL EXCLUSION OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE; AND4.4 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: HYTHE

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity made a loss for the year ended 31 March 2025 and forecasts further potential losses over the next three years. To preserve sustainability, the trustees decided to close one building and implement changes in services and staffing. Despite these financial pressures, the charity reports having a strong foundation and has maintained its core services through sound investments and increased income streams.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Burgess Hodgson Audit 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
• 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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Age UK Hythe, Lyminge and Ashford (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Cleo Smith — Chief Officer (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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~10.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (78% 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: 1.9% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (03/06/2011) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Penny Southernchair
• Anthony Hogben JP · trustee of 1 other charity
• Frederick Hobbs
• Gary Mansfield
• Ian Barnett Cox
• Jane Kennedy
• Karen Byrne
• Michael Doble
• Phillip Carter
• Sarah Barnes
• THOMAS DAWLINGS · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

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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 (AGE UK) ASHFORD LTD.

• AGE CONCERN (AGE UK) ASHFORD LTD income £1.6m
• AGE UK LEWISHAM AND SOUTHWARK income £2.6m
• AGE UK NORTHAMPTONSHIRE income £4.7m
• Age UK Maidstone, Sevenoaks and Tonbridge income £1.5m
• Age UK West Sussex, Brighton & Hove income £5.1m
• AGE UK LAMBETH income £3.1m

Side by side with its peers

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