AGE UK STOCKPORT

Registered charity 1139547 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as AGE CONCERN STOCKPORT

Providing information, advice and a range of support to people in later life within the Borough of Stockport.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE FOLLOWING PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC AND/OR OLDER PEOPLE IN AND AROUND STOCKPORT:1) PREVENTING OR RELIEVING THE POVERTY OF OLDER PEOPLE (2) ADVANCING EDUCATION FOR OLDER PEOPLE (3) PREVENTING OR RELIEVING SICKNESS, DISEASE OR SUFFERING IN OLDER PEOPLE (WHETHER EMOTIONAL, MENTAL OR PHYSICAL) (4) PROMOTING EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY IN RELATION TO OLDER PEOPLE (5) ASSISTING OLDER PEOPLE IN NEED BY REASON OF ILL-HEALTH, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, SOCIAL EXCLUSION OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE; AND (6) TO PROMOTE SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES (WHICH MAY BE FOR THE BENEFIT OF PERSONS OTHER THAN OLDER PEOPLE) AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE, WHERE SUCH PURPOSES ARE DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY ALIGNED TO, OR FURTHER, ANY ONE OR MORE OF THE ABOVE

Area of benefit: STOCKPORT

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Stockport, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity recorded a net deficit of £82,432 for the year ended 31 March 2025, which was supported by the use of reserves. The trustees maintain that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, adopting the going concern basis of accounting. Free unrestricted reserves stood at £1,035,932, which the trustees note meets their policy target of holding six months' running costs.

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

What the accounts disclose

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

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Care Quality Commission. 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
• 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

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2024 (received 01/02/2025, 1 day after the 31/01/2025 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

CQC provider record: Age UK Stockport — Deregistered, 1 registered location.charity number confirmed by CQC CQC record

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~9.4 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (82% 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: 10.8% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (10/08/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• 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 (12/04/2011) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Susan Helen Carpentier Altingchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Clare Thomlinson · trustee of 2 other charities
• David John Hughes
• Lauren Ridgway
• Melissa Mary Jane Woolham
• Rosemary Ann Wheeler
• Stephen Andrew Clarke

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

Operates in: Stockport

Income and spending

Common questions

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 CROYDON.

• AGE UK CROYDON income £1.7m
• AGE UK DONCASTER income £1.6m
• AGE UK EAST LONDON income £3.6m
• AGE UK BERKSHIRE income £1.3m
• AGE UK NORTHAMPTONSHIRE income £4.7m
• AGE UK WAKEFIELD DISTRICT income £3.0m

Side by side with its peers

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