Regenerage

Registered charity 1130384 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CENTRAL LANCASHIRE AGE CONCERN LTD

The charity operates across Lancashire providing support to people over 55 and their carers. Services include: Promoting Independent Living, Day and Community based Support for those with memory concerns, Health and Wellbeing and raising money for and from charitable activities. Some services which support all adults are also delivered where the majority of beneficiaries are older people.

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Latest income

£2.9m

Latest spending

£3.0m

Registered

2009

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved an outturn deficit of £139,847 for the year ended 31 March 2025, driven by increased fundraising expenses. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £372,730, which is above the stated policy target of three months' operating costs (£234,269).

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

What the accounts disclose

Highest-paid employee band: £80,001 - £90,000 — above the median for charities its size (£70k)

“The number of employees whose annual remuneration was more than £60,000 is as follows: 2025 Number £80,000 - £90,000 1” — page 76

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Employees paid over £60,000: 1

“The number of employees whose annual remuneration was more than £60,000 is as follows: 2025 Number £80,000 - £90,000 1” — page 76

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Xeinadin Audit Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

Registered company of the charity Companies House 06841314

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Ann Beetham — Director of Fundraising & Corporate Sponsorship (source)
Bel Fry — Director of Retail (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.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

FERMOR, Susan Man Ying — director, appointed 27/11/2025on trustee list
CLIFTON, Gary — director, appointed 23/11/2023on trustee list
BELL-CARR, Sophie Abigail Louise — director, appointed 23/11/2023on trustee list
PATEL, Arif — director, appointed 25/11/2021on trustee list
CHAMBERS, Lee John — director, appointed 25/11/2021on trustee list
WESTWOOD, Joanne Louise, Professor — director, appointed 30/11/2020on trustee list
SHANAHAN, Stephen Brian — director, appointed 19/11/2019not on trustee list
HUGHES, Philip — director, appointed 21/09/2017on trustee list

Official officers record.

CQC provider record: Regenerage — Deregistered, 1 registered location, last inspected 06/12/2018.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

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

Total income

£2.9m

Total spending

£3.0m

Cost of raising funds

£1.9m

Reserves (reported)

£1.3m

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~5.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (56% 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: 66.0% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

Received assets from another charity (16/05/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

Arif Patel
Gary Clifton
Joanne Westwood
Lee Chambers
Man Ying Susan Fermor
PHILIP HUGHES
Sophie Abigail Bell-Carr
Steven Shannahan

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

Operates in: Bolton · Lancashire

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£2.9m	£3.0m
31/03/2024	£2.4m	£2.4m
31/03/2023	£2.2m	£2.2m
31/03/2022	£2.5m	£2.6m
31/03/2021	£2.1m	£2.3m

Common questions

Is Regenerage financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity achieved an outturn deficit of £139,847 for the year ended 31 March 2025, driven by increased fundraising expenses. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £372,730, which is above the stated policy target of three months' operating costs (£234,269). Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Xeinadin Audit Limited.

What does the highest-paid employee of Regenerage earn?

Per its FY2025 accounts, the highest-paid employee was in the £80,001 - £90,000 band, and 1 employees earned over £60,000.

Who funds Regenerage?

Funders whose own accounts filings name Regenerage as a grant recipient include SKELTON BOUNTY.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
SKELTON BOUNTY	FY2025	£2k

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
Sport England	23/10/2025	£15k	Dementia Friendly Wellbeing Club
The National Lottery Community Fund	14/10/2024	£20k	Connecting back together
The National Lottery Community Fund	15/08/2012	£392k	Older and OUT in Lancashire (LGBT support and training)
The National Lottery Community Fund	05/05/2011	£8k	Once Every Preston Guild

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
AGE UK	1	£671k
GARFIELD WESTON FOUNDATION	1	£200k
THE HEADLEY TRUST	1	£150k
The Ethos Foundation	1	£100k
Army Benevolent Fund	1	£11k
Vivensa Foundation	1	£11k
THE LOWER GREEN FOUNDATION	1	£10k
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST MICHAEL'S, WANDSWORTH COMMON	1	£8k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with REGENERATE-RISE.

REGENERATE-RISE income £529k
REGENERATE.COM income £1.2m
REGENERATE TRUST income £804k
AGE UK LANCASHIRE income £5.4m
AGE CONCERN VOLUNTARY ASSOCIATION FOR THE ELDERLY MERSTHAM, REDHILL AND REIGATE income £183k
AGE CONCERN BEDFORDSHIRE income £1.9m

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
Regenerage	£2.9m	£80,001 - £90,000	1	above	—	no doubt
REGENERATE-RISE FY2025	£529k	—	0	below	—	no doubt
REGENERATE.COM FY2025	£1.2m	—	0	below	—	no doubt
REGENERATE TRUST FY2025	£804k	—	—	above	—	no doubt
AGE UK LANCASHIRE FY2025	£5.4m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
AGE CONCERN VOLUNTARY ASSOCIATION FOR THE ELDERLY MERSTHAM, REDHILL AND REIGATE FY2025	£183k	—	0	above	—	no doubt

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