AGE UK EAST GRINSTEAD & DISTRICT

Registered charity 1127168 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as AGE CONCERN EAST GRINSTEAD

AGEUKEG and District's area of benefit encompasses the town of East Grinstead and the surrounding villages.It operates four main services:Dementia Respite Services, Day/Activity Centre Services, Holidays and Tripsand a Cafe/Kitchen.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF OLDER PEOPLE IN ANY MANNER WHICH NOW OR HEREAFTER MAY BE DEEMED BY LAW TO BE CHARITABLE IN THE CIVIL PARISHES OF EAST GRINSTEAD TOWN, ASHURST WOOD, WEST HOATHLY AND WORTH, INCLUDING THE VILLAGES OF COPTHORNE, CRAWLEY DOWN, TURNERS HILL AND SHARPTHORNE (HEREINAFTER CALLED “THE AREA OF BENEFIT”).

Area of benefit: EAST GRINSTEAD

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 · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £69,630 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income falling to £274,268 from £542,068 in the prior year. Despite this deficit, unrestricted reserves stood at £197,169, which is below the stated policy target of six months' expenditure. The trustees maintain that the charity has adequate resources to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Age UK East Grinstead & District (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~7.3 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 7.1 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 6.5% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.0%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (20/02/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ALYSON CLARE BOWCOTTchair
• Alison Mohammed
• Christine Mackenzie Ross
• George Smith MCAVOY

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

Operates in: West Sussex

Income and spending

Common questions

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 UK EAST LONDON.

• AGE UK EAST LONDON income £3.6m
• EAST GRINSTEAD SPORTS CLUB LTD income £407k
• Age UK Maidstone, Sevenoaks and Tonbridge income £1.5m
• Age UK West Sussex, Brighton & Hove income £5.1m
• AGE UK LINDSEY income £1.3m
• AGE UK MERTON income £1.2m

Side by side with its peers

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