HOURGLASS (SAFER AGEING)

Registered charity 1140543 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ACTION ON ELDER ABUSE, HOURGLASS, HOURGLASS (SAFER AGEING) LTD · also registered in Scotland as SC046278 (OSCR)

The charity is a specialist organisation focusing exclusively on issues relating to the abuse of older people. We combine influencing, with the provision of information, and with practical help for older people, care providers and government/other statutory bodies. We provide a helpline and website; media work; training; conferences; membership; project work; and social policy activity.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE RELIEF OF ELDERLY PEOPLE AND PREVENT ELDER ABUSE THROUGH RAISING AWARENESS, EDUCATION, RESEARCH AND THE DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE NATIONAL.

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 · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Babergh, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that Hourglass achieved a net surplus of £171,297 for the year ended 31 March 2026, with total income of £1,811,425. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £1,288,353, which is sufficient to meet the charity's policy of holding three months of staffing costs. The auditor confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and that there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Moore Green Chartered Accountants. 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
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07290092 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Hourglass (Safer Ageing) (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Richard Robinson — CEO (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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Churchill Foundation — “The partnership will see the Churchill Foundation donate £200,000 to Hourglass in 2025, along with a commitment to donate a further £200,000…” (source page)

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.

• STUTTAFORD, Simon Paton — director, appointed 15/07/2025on trustee list
• CRANEFIELD, Ian Douglas — director, appointed 12/12/2024on trustee list
• MORGAN, Johanna Rachel — director, appointed 26/01/2024on trustee list
• LOCK, Sarah Victoria — director, appointed 22/11/2023on trustee list
• BRIDGES, Daniel — director, appointed 13/10/2023on trustee list
• JEVONS, Gary, Dr — director, appointed 13/09/2023on trustee list
• SHUKLA, Pragya, Dr — director, appointed 01/06/2023on trustee list
• WINTON, Anne Marie — director, appointed 01/06/2023not on trustee list
• ROBINSON, Laura — director, appointed 18/05/2023on trustee list
• BROWNE, Sarah — director, appointed 15/06/2018on trustee list
• NICHOLAS- JONES, Andrea — director, appointed 01/01/2018not on trustee list

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~9.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (06/04/2011) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrea Nicholas-Jones
• Anne-Marie Winton
• Daniel Bridges
• Dr Gary Jevons
• Dr Pragya Shukla
• IAN DOUGLAS CRANEFIELD · trustee of 1 other charity
• Johanna Rachel Morgan · trustee of 1 other charity
• Laura Robinson
• SIMON PATON STUTTAFORD
• Sarah Browne
• Sarah Victoria Lock · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Guernsey · Ireland · Isle Of Man · Jersey · Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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

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.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with AGE UK HOUNSLOW.

• AGE UK HOUNSLOW income £339k
• AGE UK HERTFORDSHIRE income £5.5m
• AGE CONNECTED income £177k
• CARERS IN HERTFORDSHIRE income £3.3m
• Age UK Enfield income £2.0m
• SUNDERLAND CARERS' CENTRE income £794k

Side by side with its peers

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