Age UK North Cumbria

Registered charity 1128565 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as AGE CONCERN CARLISLE AND EDEN, AGE UK CARLISLE AND EDEN

Promoting the wellbeing of people over the age of 50 to help make later life a fulfilling and enjoyable experience

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF ELDERLY PEOPLE IN ANY MANNER WHICH NOW OR HEREAFTER MAY BR DEEMED BY LAW TO BE CHARITABLE IN AND AROUND CARLISLE AND EDEN DISTRICTS OR OTHERWISE IN THE COUNTY OF CUMBRIA (HEREINAFTER CALLED THE AREA OF BENEFIT)

Area of benefit: CUMBRIA

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: Cumberland, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £84,498 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total incoming resources of £1,133,217 against outgoing resources of £1,049,450. Per the trustees' report, total reserves stood at £1,615,228, of which £931,630 were unrestricted, a figure the trustees noted was marginally less than their policy target of one year's expenditure per service. The independent auditor confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability 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 audited by Saint & Co.. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from Over £60,000 (FY2024) to £60,001 - £70,000 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Financial Conduct Authority. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• 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.

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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~14.4 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 33.7% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (08/01/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (08/11/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (07/11/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Stuart David Irvingchair
• Alison Hampson
• Andrew Hilton Shekell
• BRENDA MARY HILL
• Chris Fuller
• Jeanie McAdam Pasley
• Jonathon Charles Wood
• Niall McNulty

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

Operates in: Cumbria

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 UK NORTHUMBERLAND.

• AGE UK NORTHUMBERLAND income £6.8m
• Age UK Newcastle and North Tyneside income £10.3m
• Age UK South Cumbria LTD income £2.7m
• Age UK Enfield income £2.0m
• AGE UK BERKSHIRE income £1.3m
• AGE UK CROYDON income £1.7m

Side by side with its peers

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