AGE CYMRU

Registered charity 1128436 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Age Cymru is a powerful voice campaigning for change. We work alongside national and local government and other partners to develop solutions and provide services. With our local partners, we deliver trusted information, help people access new technologies, offer practical support and social opportunities, and respond to market failures.

Objects

3.1. PREVENTING OR RELIEVING THE POVERTY OF OLDER PEOPLE 3.2. ADVANCING EDUCATION 3.3. PREVENTING OR RELIEVING SICKNESS, DISEASE OR SUFFERING IN OLDER PEOPLE (WHETHER EMOTIONAL, MENTAL AND/OR PHYSICAL) 3.4. PROMOTING EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY 3.5. PROMOTING THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF OLDER PEOPLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS 3.6. ASSISTING OLDER PEOPLE IN NEED BY REASON OF ILL-HEALTH, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR DISADVANTAGE 3.7. PROMOTING TRAINING, ARTS, CULTURE AND HERITAGE FOR THE BENEFIT OF OLDER PEOPLE 3.8. OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF OLDER PEOPLE AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, THROUGHOUT WALES

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Cardiff, Wales (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that Age Cymru generated a net operating deficit of £42,000 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income increasing to £2,778,651. The charity holds free reserves of £1,302,867, which is well in excess of its stated policy target range of £450,000 to £534,000. Cash at bank increased significantly from £578,738 to £886,670 during the period.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Menzies LLP. 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
• 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)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Age Cymru (matched by registered charity number).

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

Reported reserves equal ~5.5 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/08/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Angharad Mair Leigh
• Charles William Manning carter OBE
• Clare Davies
• Clive Nadin
• David John Teague
• Diane Margaret Hughes
• Eleanor Sanders · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor John Robert Williams · trustee of 1 other charity
• Robert Jack Mansfield

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

Operates in: Throughout Wales

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 CYMRU POWYS.

• AGE CYMRU POWYS income £567k
• AGE CYMRU DYFED income £2.0m
• Age Cymru West Glamorgan Limited income £758k
• THE WELSH ASSOCIATION OF YOUTH CLUBS income £286k
• AGE EXCHANGE income £605k
• AGE CYMRU GWYNEDD A MON income £1.0m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.